The theme for the 2026 Met Gala has been announced!
This coming year will have the focus off… “Costume Art.”
Keep reading to find out more…
“It’s a huge moment for the Costume Institute,” curator Andrew Bolton explained. “It will be transformative for our department, but I also think it’s going to be transformative to fashion more generally—the fact that an art museum like The Met is actually giving a central location to fashion.”
“The title ‘Costume Art’ refers to the history of the Costume Institute,” he added. Fashion “has an edge on art because it is about one’s lived, embodied experience.”
It will focus on “the centrality of the dressed body in the museum’s vast collection.”
CNN says the “showcase will pair almost 200 artworks with around 200 garments and accessories in an effort to join the dots between fashion and fine art once and for all.” It will focus on the “ubiquity and endurance through time and space,” and be broken into themes including “the Naked Body,” “the Classical Body,” “the Pregnant Body” and “the Mortal Body.”
The exhibit will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 10, 2026, to January 10, 2027. The Met Gala will take place on the First Monday in May, which is May 4, 2026. Anna Wintour will once again take the helm, but we already know which celebrities will NOT be invited.
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