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The Met Gala 2026 is getting creative with its theme.
After all, Anna Wintour's annual fundraising gala, the "Costume Art" party, has announced that the dress code for this year's event is "Fashion Is Art."
"What connects every curatorial department and every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body," Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute—the beneficiary of the annual gala—said in a statement about the theme, according to Vogue. "It's the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was."
This year's Met Gala dress code asks attendees to consider how a designer uses their body as a "blank canvas."
"Fashion Is Art," as a dress code, comes just two months after the party's co-chairs—or annual co-hosts—were revealed. Beyoncé will return to the Costume Institute benefit after ten years, serving as cochair with Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams.
The event's host committee will include fashionable celebrities such as Zoë Kravitz, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Teyana Taylor, Misty Copeland, Lena Dunham, and more.
Although longtime host Anna will continue to lead the annual fundraiser, her Vogue successor, Chloe Malle, will also officially step onto the Met steps with a hosting duty as she will also act as an official member of the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee.
Despite the strict guidelines for the highly anticipated first Monday in May, Anna has previously stated that she has little idea of attendees' actual outfits until they arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Many call and ask for our advice, so we try to help some of them as best we can," she explained during a May appearance on Good Morning America. "Some, no idea."
