Met Gala livestream hosts

Vogue says Ashley Graham, La La Anthony and Cara Delevingne will host its 2026 Met Gala livestream, with coverage starting at 6 p.m. Eastern on May 4. (vogue.com) Emma Chamberlain is returning as red carpet correspondent for the stream, which Vogue says will run across its digital platforms as celebrities arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (vogue.com, yahoo.com) This year’s gala is tied to the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition, “Costume Art,” which the Met says will open to the public on May 10 and run through January 10, 2027. The museum says the show will feature nearly 400 objects. (metmuseum.org) The Met says “Costume Art” will pair garments with artworks from across the museum to examine “the dressed body” and fashion as an embodied art form. The gala’s dress code, “Fashion is Art,” follows that same idea. (metmuseum.org) The guest list at the top of the event is already set: Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour are co-chairs, while Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz are listed as co-chairs of the host committee. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are honorary chairs. (metmuseum.org) The livestream announcement lands as the museum is also changing how the exhibition will look inside the galleries. The Associated Press reported that the show is adding mannequins based on a wider range of real bodies instead of relying only on the thin, standardized forms common in fashion displays. (apnews.com) Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, told AP that the classic fashion mannequin is usually around a women’s size 2. AP reported that nine real-life models were used to create 18 new mannequins, including figures based on people with dwarfism, prosthetic legs, wheelchair use, pregnancy and plus-size bodies. (apnews.com) That shift follows last year’s Met Gala, which opened “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” a Costume Institute exhibition on Black style and dandyism across three centuries. The Met said that 2025 show examined how self-presentation shaped Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. (metmuseum.org) The gala itself remains the Costume Institute’s main annual fundraiser, and the Met says its proceeds support exhibitions, publications, acquisitions and operations. On May 4, the first thing most viewers will see is still the red carpet — but the museum is using this year’s show to widen who gets represented once the cameras move inside. (metmuseum.org, apnews.com)