It’s Met Gala Monday in New York City.

The first Monday in May marks fashion’s biggest night as celebs descend on the Metropolitan Museum of Art to support the Costume Institute at its annual charity gala.

The dress code for the event is “Fashion is Art.”

The Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibit is titled “Costume Art,” which “will consider depictions of the dressed body from across the Met’s curatorial departments, pairing garments with art objects spanning some 5,000 years,” according to Vogue.

Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour are co-chairs of the event. This is Wintour’s first gala since stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief.

There is also a huge host committee, including Zoë Kravitz, Angela Bassett, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Misty Copeland, Lena Dunham, Amy Sherald, Teyana Taylor, Chase Sui Wonders and more.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are the lead sponsors and honorary chairs of the gala.

“It’s about everybody, and it’s about every body,” Wintour said ahead of the event, USA Today reported. “Nude bodies and classical bodies, corpulent bodies, and disabled bodies and the way both fashion and art can shape our imaginations.”

HuffPost is covering the event live. Stay tuned for updates.

We can always count on Janelle Monáe to show up and show out at the Met Gala. And this year was no different.

The “Dirty Computer” artist seemed to gather every electrical cable she could find to top off her custom Christian Siriano gown, complete with live moss, moving mechanical butterflies, dragonflies and 5,000 black crystals.

The nature-inspired look joined Monáe’s long track record of stunning Met Gala outfits — no doubt, the most creative of the night.

Former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa (R) was spotted walking along the Central Park road behind the Met, telling HuffPost he was “counting the number of cops” who were “protecting the billionaires” at the gala.

“Those people are totally indulgent, selfish —,” began Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and a Republican who lost to Zohran Mamdani in last year’s NYC mayoral election, about the guests inside. “What are we doing for the homeless here? Why don’t they go into the subways?”

Sliwa, who was walking outside the museum’s police-flanked perimeter with his wife Nancy, claimed to spot some 200 officers at what he dubbed the “Masters of the Universe Ball." He suggested that the Met rely on its own security and that the event be held on New York’s Governors Island.

When asked whether he would have attended the gala had he been elected mayor, Sliwa emphatically said he would have skipped the event, much like Mamdani.

For this year’s Met Gala, Amy Sherald didn’t have to look far for inspiration.

True to the gala's “Fashion is Art” dress code, the painter — known for her portraits of former first lady Michelle Obama and slain EMT Breonna Taylor — turned to one of her own works, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” to put together her Thom Browne dress.

Sherald, who serves on this year’s Met Gala host committee and also has paintings in the museum’s permanent collection, told Vanity Fair that she sketched her dress based on her painting and left it up to Browne to bring to life.

“I think Thom is one of the only people I know that can translate my work,” she said. “He’s extending it and giving it another life.”

Amy Sherald referencing her own work, Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), 2014 >>>> pic.twitter.com/vKNxsHIS6r

Tech behemoth Mark Zuckerberg quietly attended the Jeff Bezos-backed Met Gala 2026 on Monday night.

The Meta head subtly slipped into the event alongside his wife, Priscilla Chan, wearing a Prada tux while Chan donned a long, red ruffled gown as seen in photos captured by The New York Times.

The couple appeared to skip the red carpet.

Zuckerberg’s attendance comes after he and Chan made a rare appearance at the Prada Fall/Winter 2026 show in February.

Katy Perry showed up to the 2026 Met Gala wearing something that looked like a souvenir she picked up from her girls’ trip to space.

The pop star — and friend of the event’s honorary chair Lauren Sánchez Bezos — wore a white Stella McCarthy gown and a headpiece that covered her entire face.

Cosmopolitan said the “E.T.” singer was “giving a fencing astronaut” look, and that description was pretty accurate.

The headpiece also seemed to be a nod to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit, “Costume Art,” in which the mannequins on display wear mirrored masks so that the viewer can see themselves reflected in their clothes. Curator Andrew Bolton told Vogue the idea was “to reflect on your own lived experience, hopefully to create a connection, empathy, compassion towards each other.”

English actress and "Game of Thrones" star Gwendoline Christie strutted the red carpet at the Met Gala sporting a design by her long-time partner, British fashion designer Giles Deacon.

“I’ve wanted to wear Giles for the Met Gala since before I was even in a relationship with Giles, and that’s 13 years ago,” she told Vogue. “So this has been a long time coming.”

Christie told the magazine that the look, which includes a colorful headdress and a handheld mirror mask adorned with her own face, pays homage to a trio of artists, including 19th-century portrait painter John Singer Sargent, British surrealist photographer Madame Yevonde and countercultural New York photographer Ira Cohen.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” may be a fun trip down memory lane for longtime fans, but for the journalism world, its candid take on today’s media landscape was a bit unsettling, to say the least.

Starring returning actors Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, the sequel centered on Runway Magazine’s fight for survival after editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Streep) gets caught up in a major scandal. Andy Sachs (Hathaway), once her assistant and now a successful (and recently laid-off) journalist, is brought back to restore the publication to its former glory, unaware that tech billionaire Benji Barnes (Justin Theroux) plans to buy it for his girlfriend, Andy’s former colleague Emily (Blunt).

To many, Theroux’s character may sound like an obvious nod to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his foray into media, which has, so far, included buying and gutting The Washington Post and potentially eyeing Condé Nast (publisher of Vogue, which inspired Runway) as a wedding gift to his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, per mid-2025 reports. Anna Wintour, Condé Nast's chief content officer, seemingly denied those rumors last year. However, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Variety, “We already had a script and were making the movie when the rumors [of Bezos considering an acquisition of Condé Nast] started happening.”

“It wasn’t inspired by anything,” she added. “But, we did say, ‘Whoa’ when it happened.”

A rep for Blunt also told Variety that it was “absolutely not true” that her character was based on Sánchez Bezos.

The timing of the movie’s release, mere days before this year’s Bezos-backed Met Gala — the annual, multimillion-dollar fundraising event that has been a major revenue source for Condé Nast — was pretty hard to ignore. The fact that Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos also serve as honorary chairs of the gala further underscored the overlap.

But there were even eerier connections between the Bezos and the “Devil Wears Prada” sequel.

Much like Benji Barnes, Jeff Bezos was far from a fashion advocate when he attended his first Met Gala over a decade ago while still married to philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. Post-divorce, one of the world’s richest men and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have been front-row guests at Fashion Week, with the latter earning a Vogue spread featuring her wedding to the tech mogul. Sounds awfully similar to the makeover upgrade Benji got after divorcing his philanthropic wife (played by Lucy Liu) in the film, thanks to his fashion-forward and connected new girlfriend.

Now, the Bezos couple serves as lead sponsors of fashion’s biggest night – and many oppose their presence. Left-wing activist group Everyone Hates Elon has called for a boycott, with one parody advertisement reading, “The Bezos Met Gala Invites You To Party Like It’s 1939,” adding that the event’s dress code is “willful ignorance.” Several celebrities are also reportedly skipping tonight’s Met Gala because of the Bezos, with some directly calling out those who still plan to attend.

It was not lost on audiences that the subplot of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” seemed to be playing out in real life:

Like the irony of the storyline of Devil Wears Prada 2 playing out in our alt universe where the billionaire does actually gain major influence within a key fashion institution + inserts his wife while the fashion workforce dwindles. Irony.

Chase Infiniti made her Met Gala debut in quite a colorful fashion on Monday.

The breakout actor stunned in a gorgeous sequin floor-length gown with colors that look like they were taken straight from a painter’s palette. Yet another look that smartly sticks to the dress code.

Talk about life imitating art.

Theater producer Jordan Roth took tonight’s “Fashion is Art” assignment literally when he showed up to the gala dressed as a living, breathing sculpture. According to Vogue, Roth’s custom, gray velvet dress — created by London-based designer Robert Wun — references one of his favorite works by French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Pygmalion and Galatea.”

He told the outlet: “The idea is that the sculpture body and the flesh body are interchangeably, inextricably, interconnected.”

A cool interpretation of tonight’s dress code.

Sam Smith stepped onto the 2026 Met Gala red carpet looking like a mystical work of art.

On Monday, the “Unholy” musician donned a sparkling black mermaid-style ensemble with dramatic, furry sleeves that resembled gigantic wings. Smith paired their look that matched the “Costume Art”-themed gala with a sky-high feathered headpiece and sheer lace gloves.

Zoë Kravitz wore Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello at the Met Gala, and the black lace outfit hid any sign of an engagement ring. If she was wearing the ring, it was underneath a black lace glove.

Kravitz wore the ring in New York City over the weekend, per Vogue.

In April, People reported that Kravitz and singer/actor Harry Styles were engaged.

The Italian Open begins on May 5, but tennis star Naomi Osaka will be showing up late after deciding to attend the Met Gala in New York City.

Osaka turned heads in a white and feathered Robert Wun dress with a matching headpiece by London milliner Awon Golding. Once she was on the carpet, Osaka removed her coat and hat, revealing that she was wearing a sleeveless, form-fitting red dress underneath.

Wun has previously collaborated with Osaka, designing her walk-on outfits at the Australian Open earlier this year, according to Town & Country.

Osaka might not make it to the first day of the tournament because of the gala, but she won't miss any games because she has a first-round bye, according to the Big Lead.

About two dozen protesters gathered for a dazzling display of “resistance,” donning sparkly and colorful outfits while chanting “tax the rich” just blocks away from the steps of the Met, where celebrities made their way to the Bezos-backed gala.

Rise and Resist — a New York-based, self-described “nonviolent action group” — dropped a red carpet where they strutted their messages against ICE and sounded the alarm on Bezos’ support for whom they described as a “pedophile, racist and traitor” in Donald Trump.

At one point, the pop-up gala’s guests broke out into a carol that repeated a lone word “Epstein,” a nod to the late convicted sex offender whose old buddy Trump accepted a seven-figure, inauguration fund donation from the Amazon founder.

At first glance, it could be considered a prime example of playing it safe.

Lauren Sánchez Bezos, an honorary chair of the 2026 Met Gala, showed up to the most cutting edge night in fashion looking pretty basic. The wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos donned a long, form-fitting navy Schiaparelli gown in which one shoulder includes a jeweled strap that appears to be falling. It seems to snub the night’s dress code, which is “Fashion Is Art” — but alas, it is on theme.

Sánchez Bezos’ look is inspired by one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most famous portraits, “Madame X” by John Singer Sargent, per Vogue.

Sargent’s 1883 masterwork was considered controversial because the strap of the subject’s dress was originally painted to be slipping off her shoulder, causing so much backlash at the time that Sargent repainted the strap upright. So, with that in mind, Sánchez Bezos’ homage is pretty fitting, considering her mere presence at the Met Gala has been, and will likely continue, to cause an uproar.

Nicole Kidman was the ultimate lady in red at the 2026 Met Gala on Monday.

The “Babygirl” star, 58, who is serving as a co-chair for this year’s event alongside Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, hit the red carpet with an unexpected guest — her 17-year-old daughter Sunday Rose Kidman Urban — for an adorable mother-daughter date.

Kidman donned a bright red Chanel gown with feathered sleeves while her model daughter stunned in a purple strapless Dior dress.

Anna Wintour, who stepped down as Vogue's editor-in-chief in 2025, is one of four co-chairs of the gala.

Wintour wore the same feathered cape at the 2019 Met Gala but in pink!

Both capes are by Chanel.

Elle Feneide, 21, has been holding up a sign for the stars to read while across the street from Monday’s Met Gala: “Your red carpet is stained with BLOOD.”

Feneide, who stood alone on a temporary police barricade behind a sea of onlookers screaming at the sights of celebrities who began arriving to the event, pointed to the death of a factory worker at Amazon — the company behind the wealth of one of the event’s big sponsors, Jeff Bezos — as the reason behind her demonstration.

“I believe that if you shake hands with murderers, there’s blood on your hands, too,” she told HuffPost of the high profile guests walking the red carpet.

“Everybody involved with the Met Gala this year has made a kind of endorsement of his actions and the systematic violence that he perpetrates.”

With Amazon founder Jeff Bezos co-chairing this year’s Met Gala alongside his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, the unrepentant billionaires have inspired creative protests ahead of the fashion world’s big night on Monday.

Bezos and Sánchez are known to be allies of President Donald Trump, and amid skyrocketing public disapproval of the Trump administration’s immigration policies and warmongering, the left-wing activist group Everyone Hates Elon is calling on people to boycott the event at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Met Gala raised $42 million at its annual fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute, the Met’s director and CEO Max Hollein announced on Monday at a press preview for the spring 2026 exhibit.

This breaks the record previously set at the 2025 Met Gala, where the attendees helped raise $31 million.

Read more at WWD.

The new Met Gala co-chairs have been announced, and it’s a high-powered quartet: Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour in hosting the star-packed event next May.

Williams, who has never hosted before, takes the role seven years after her younger sister and fellow tennis champion, Serena, was co-chair. Beyoncé was honorary chair in 2013, and Kidman co-chaired in 2003 and 2005. Wintour, of course, oversees the annual event, a fundraiser that last year brought a record $31 million to the coffers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

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