The dresses have been sewn, the jewellery has been polished and New York’s hairdressers and make-up artists have been fully booked ahead of the Met Gala 2026.
Around 450 A-list guests will begin arriving later for fashion’s biggest night of the year, which raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams are the co-chairs for this year’s gala, which has the dress code: “Fashion is art.”
Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Super Bowl of fashion.
What is the Met Gala 2026 theme?
This year’s theme is Costume Art, named after the museum’s new exhibition, which will see 400 outfits and objects spanning 5,000 years go on display.
The dress code for the gala is Fashion Is Art, with guests invited to explore their relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.
