Beyoncé will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala, marking a grand return to fashion’s biggest night after a decade away.
The 35-time Grammy winner, 44, will be joined by Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, per Vogue. “Costume Art,” spotlighting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition, will serve as the theme for Wintour’s first Met Ball since stepping down as the magazine’s editor-in-chief earlier this year.
Belgian designer Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the star-studded Host Committee, which also includes newly minted Vogue.com editor Chloe Malle. The members announced thus far hail from across the arts and athletics.
Among the musicians are Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith and Grammy nom Teyana Taylor, amid Oscar buzz for her work in Paul Thomas Anderson’s likely Best Picture nod, “One Battle After Another.”
Members also include ballerina Misty Copeland and the WNBA’s A’ja Wilson as well as small screen stars Gwendoline Christie, Elizabeth Debicki and Lena Dunham. Models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser, Lauren Wasser and Yseult, who’s also a singer-songwriter, as well as artist Anna Weyant are all on the committee.
“Proud ‘nepo baby’” Malle, the 40-year-old daughter of Oscar nominee Candice Bergen — who also played fictional Vogue editor Enid Frick on “Sex and the City” — took over the coveted head of editorial content gig back in September.
But it’s Queen Bey’s return to the Manhattan event, for the first time since 2016’s “Manus x Machina”-themed night, that’s most highly anticipated.
Beyoncé, who last wore Givenchy Haute Couture to the Met Gala, is coming off a megawatt run. In February, her country album, “Cowboy Carter” — which channels the superstar’s Houston upbringing — finally won the Destiny’s Child alum, who already holds more Grammys than any other musician, the award for Album of the Year.
The “Cowboy Carter” tour made history as the biggest country tour in Billboard Boxscore history upon taking its final bow in late July.