Who are the big names co-chairing the 2026 Met Gala with Anna Wintour? Details explored

The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" - Arrivals - Source: Getty
The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" - Arrivals - Source: Getty

The co-chairs who will be accompanying Anna Wintour at the 2026 Met Gala have been announced.

The Fashion Awards 2025 Presented By Pandora - Show - Source: Getty
The Fashion Awards 2025 Presented By Pandora - Show - Source: Getty

The 2026 Met Gala is almost half a year away, and to create the buzz of the annual fundraising event, the official co-chairs have been announced. In 2026, the gala's chairs will be Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, along with Vogue icon Anna Wintour. This year would mark the Lemonade singer's first appearance at the event in a decade, her last being in 2016, when she attended the “Manus x Machina” gala, while both Venus and Nicole are regulars at fashion's biggest night.

But that's not all, as Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee. The Committee will also have additional members, including Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Teyana Taylor, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson, Yseult and more, once they are announced.


What is the theme of the 2026 Met Gala?

The Met Gala takes place on the first Monday of May annually. In 2026, it will be on May 4, and the official theme of the avant-garde event is "Costume Art." The exhibition of the same name will be curated by Andrew Bolton and is set to explore the relationship between clothing and the body that dons it.

In a press release, Bolton said, "I wanted to focus on the centrality of the dressed body within the museum, connecting artistic representations of the body with fashion as an embodied art form. Rather than prioritising fashion’s visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, ‘Costume Art’ privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear.”

The “Costume Art” will be the first show to be held in the new Condé M. Nast Galleries at The Met, which is an almost 12,000-square-foot space next to the Great Hall.

Edited by Sohini Biswas