Beyoncé's back and 'Fashion Is Art': What to know about the 2026 Met Gala

The Met Gala, fashion’s biggest night, is astir the corner.

The yearly event, which takes spot connected the archetypal Monday of May, draws A-listers crossed entertainment, fashion, sports, tech and concern and raises funds for the museum’s Costume Institute. Last year’s gala collected a grounds $31 cardinal for the manner department’s operations, exhibitions, publications and acquisitions.

The 2026 gala volition beryllium the archetypal to instrumentality spot astatine the museum’s caller Condé M. Nast Galleries, a astir 12,000-square-foot abstraction housed successful what utilized to beryllium the depository acquisition shop.

Here’s everything other you request to cognize astir the “Super Bowl of fashion.”

When is the Met Gala?

The 2026 Met Gala is May 4 astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art successful New York City. The reddish carpet livestream starts astatine 3 p.m. Pacific, but immoderate guests get up to an hr early.

Beyoncé arrives astatine the 2016 Met Gala for “Manus x Machina: Fashion successful an Age of Technology.” She’s returning to the “Super Bowl of fashion” connected Monday aft skipping the lawsuit for a decade.

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What is the theme?

The theme, which is linked to the manner department’s outpouring exhibition, is “Costume Art.”

The show, connected presumption May 10 to Jan. 10, 2027, features astir 400 items spanning 5,000 years. It volition brace garments with artwork culled from the museum’s collections. Items volition beryllium categorized based connected thematic assemblage types that often amusement up successful works crossed the museum, including the “Naked Body,” “Classical Body,” “Pregnant Body” and “Aging Body.”

The gala formal codification is “Fashion Is Art,” with guests asked to research their narration to manner arsenic an embodied creation signifier and observe depictions of the dressed assemblage passim creation history.

Who are the chairs?

Beyoncé — returning aft a 10-year hiatus — Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour volition co-chair this year’s gala.

The big committee, co-chaired by Yves Saint Laurent originative manager Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz, includes Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Lisa, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson, Yseult, Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald and Chase Sui Wonders.

Nicole Kidman attends the 2024 Met Gala celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” She’s among the co-chairs of Monday’s event.

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Who other is connected the impermanent list?

The impermanent database is ever a tightly guarded secret, but predominant guests see Lady Gaga, Zendaya, Blake Lively, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gigi and Bella Hadid, members of the Kardashian-Jenner household and Rihanna, who revealed her 3rd gestation astatine past year’s gala.

Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and his wife, erstwhile writer Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are expected to attend, arsenic pb sponsors of the accumulation and event. Saint Laurent and Condé Nast are besides sponsors.

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, stars of the manner extravaganza “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” whitethorn besides be the gala. The sequel hits theaters a fewer days earlier the gala.

There are typically 400 to 600 attendees. Last year, idiosyncratic tickets outgo $75,000, according to CBS.

In a interruption from tradition, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and woman Rama Duwaji volition not beryllium attending.

How tin I ticker the livestream?

Vogue volition livestream the Met Gala starting astatine 3 p.m. Pacific/6 p.m. Eastern crossed its integer platforms, including YouTube and TikTok. The livestream volition beryllium hosted by Ashley Graham, La La Anthony and Cara Delevingne, and influencer Emma Chamberlain volition instrumentality arsenic reddish carpet correspondent.