Beyonce Met Gala 2026 Co-Hosts Return After 10 Years
Beyonce Met Gala returns with Beyoncé co-hosting the 2026 Met Gala in New York City after a decade away from the event. The fundraiser’s dress code is "Fashion is Art," putting her back on one of fashion’s highest-profile stages.
New York City hosts 2026
Beyoncé is joining Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman and Anna Wintour as co-hosts, with Kidman, Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Wintour listed as co-chairs and Williams also named among the co-chairs. That lineup gives the night both celebrity reach and institutional weight, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring costume exhibition still at the center of the fundraiser.
The 2026 Met Gala is taking place in New York City, and the guest list already stretches beyond music and film. Singer Sam Smith arrived in a flowing black gown with a striking black feather fascinator, while Charli XCX wore an embroidered black dress, and Naomi Osaka showed up in an extravagant white hat with red accents.
Ten years since Beyoncé
Beyoncé last appeared at the Met Gala a decade ago, which makes this return the story’s clearest shift. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector were also on the red carpet, Chase Sui Wonders wore a pale lavender dress with diamonds, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin posed with his partner Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto.
Jeff Bezos’s involvement as a sponsor has already drawn protests from activists, adding a separate layer of scrutiny to a night built around access, visibility and fundraising. That friction sits beside the fashion, not outside it.
Amy Sherald carried a Dachshund-shaped handbag, Sinéad Burke was present, and the former tennis star attended with her husband Andrea Preti. For readers following the event as an industry moment, the useful detail is simple: Beyoncé is back, the dress code is set, and the gala now has both a decade-long gap and a live controversy attached to it.
