NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The new Met Gala co-chairs have been announced, and it’s a high-powered quartet: 叠别测辞苍肠茅, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour in hosting
who has never hosted before, takes the role seven years after her younger sister and fellow tennis champion, Serena, was co-chair. was honorary chair in 2013, and co-chaired in 2003 and 2005. , a fundraiser that last year brought a record $31 million to the coffers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
The museum on Wednesday also announced a gala host committee, chaired by designer Anthony Vaccarello and filmmaker Zo毛 Kravitz. It includes musicians Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith and Yseult; dancer Misty Copeland; actors Teyana Taylor, Elizabeth Debicki, Gwendoline Christie and Lena Dunham; ; models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser and Lauren Wasser; Vogue editor Chloe Malle; and artist Anna Weyant.
For years, 叠别测辞苍肠茅, a seven-time gala guest, has been one of the most-watched celebrities on the carpet, keeping everyone in eager anticipation of her (fashionably) late arrival. In 2015, she made it worth the wait with a daring custom Givenchy gown that, with its strategically placed beading, gave new meaning to the term 鈥渟heer鈥� and heralded the ubiquity of the naked dress trend. A year later, the superstar again wore Givenchy, this time in a gleaming, skintight latex gown.
No word on what she will wear next; the dress code for the May 4 gala has yet to be announced. But it will dovetail with as the institute’s next spring exhibit.
The exhibit aims to celebrate 鈥渢he dressed body鈥� as it appears in art through the centuries. It will do that by pairing garments with objects from across the museum to show how fashion has long been intertwined with different art forms.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a show that can really live in fascinating ways at the museum and can pull from all different areas of our collection 鈥� paintings, sculpture, drawings,鈥� the museum鈥檚 CEO and director, Max Hollein, said in an interview last month.
The show, overseen as always by the Costume Institute鈥檚 curator in charge, Andrew Bolton, will be organized thematically by different body types. It will include the 鈥淣aked Body鈥� and the 鈥淐lassical Body,鈥� for example, but also less traditional themes like the 鈥淧regnant Body鈥� and the 鈥淎ging Body.鈥�
The new exhibit will also have a splashy new home. 鈥淐ostume Art鈥� will inaugurate new gallery space occupying some 12,000 square feet (1,115 square meters), right off the museum鈥檚 Great Hall 鈥� giving fashion a prominent space in the museum and also helping to control congestion at the heavily attended exhibits. The new Conde M. Nast galleries 鈥� created from what was formerly the museum鈥檚 retail store 鈥� will house not only all spring Costume Institute exhibits, but other shows from different parts of the museum.
Bolton has said the gallery space 鈥渨ill mark a pivotal moment for the department, one that acknowledges the critical role fashion plays not only within art history but also within contemporary culture.鈥�
Venus Williams returned to competition in July at age 45 after nearly 1 1/2 years away from the tour, though she had never retired. She became the oldest player to play singles at the U.S. Open since 1981. Serena Williams, meanwhile, recently that she might be preparing to return to tennis.
鈥淐ostume Art鈥� opens to the public May 10, 2026, and runs until Jan. 10, 2027.
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