The 2026 Met Gala is roughly five months away, but the co-chairs have already been announced. Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams are set to join Anna Wintour as the co-chairs of fashion's biggest night, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday.

This will be the first Met Gala since Wintour stepped back from her editorial duties at Vogue. It will also mark Beyoncé's first Met Gala appearance since 2016. Kidman and Williams both attended the 2025 celebration. 

The 2026 Met Gala Host Committee will be co-chaired by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz and it will include Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A'ja Wilson and Yseult -- with even more names announced at a later date. 

Last month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its spring exhibition, which typically inspires the dress code for the evening. 

The exhibition is titled "Costume Art," and curator Andrew Bolton said it will pair objects, sculptures and paintings from the museum with garments from the Costume Institute. It opens May 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027, following the Met Gala on May 4, 2026. 

The exhibit "will examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects from across the Museum's vast collection with historical and contemporary garments from The Costume Institute," the museum said in a statement. 

The exhibit "will be organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their ubiquity and endurance through time and space." 

"Costume Art will present a dynamic and scholarly conversation between garments from The Costume Institute and an array of artworks from across The Met's vast collection, elevating universal and timeless themes while bringing forward new ideas and ways of seeing," Met Museum director and CEO Max Hollein said. 

"For The Costume Institute's inaugural exhibition in the Condé M. Nast Galleries, I wanted to focus on the centrality of the dressed body within the Museum, connecting artistic representations of the body with fashion as an embodied artform," said Bolton. 

The show will take place for the first time in nearly 12,000 feet of galleries that will be named for Condé M. Nast. The exhibition and benefit are made possible by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, the Met said. 

This year's spring exhibition was titled, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," with the dress code "Tailored for You," and the co-chairs were Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams, A$AP Rocky and Wintour.