Wake up, babe, the co-chairs for the Met Gala 2026 have been announced.
The powerful threesome, who will be assisting Vogue’s Anna Wintour to host the star-packed event next May, will be Beyoncé, Venus
Williams and Nicole Kidman.
According to an AP report, tennis superstar Venus, who has never hosted before, is taking on this important role seven years after her younger sister, tennis champion Serena Williams, was co-chair.
Singer Beyoncé was named honorary chair in 2013 and will be returning to perform her duties at the Met Gala almost a decade later.
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Nicole has the most amount of experience in this panel, as the actor hosted the charity gala in 2003 and 2005. Anna will oversee the annual event, a fundraiser that last year brought a record $31 million to the coffers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
The museum on Wednesday also announced a gala host committee, chaired by designer Anthony Vaccarello and filmmaker Zoë Kravitz. The committee will also include musicians Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith and Yseult; dancer Misty Copeland; actors Teyana Taylor, Elizabeth Debicki, Gwendoline Christie and Lena Dunham; basketball player A’ja Wilson; models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser and Lauren Wasser; Vogue editor Chloe Malle; and artist Anna Weyant.
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Like always, the 2026 Met Gala will take place on the first Monday in the month of May. In 2026, the fundraiser is set to occur on Monday, May 4, in New York City, at the Met Museum. It has traditionally been timed to mark the opening of the department’s spring fashion exhibition.
On November 17, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the theme for the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition is “Costume Art.” This exhibition will explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath.
The show, according to a Vogue report, will inaugurate the Met’s new, nearly 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries. It will consider “depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.”
The exhibition will be divided into a “series of thematic body types”. It will range from the “Naked Body” and the “Classical Body”, which are well represented in the museum, to overlooked types like the “Pregnant Body” and the “Ageing Body”.
