Met Gala 2026 LIVE Updates: Theme, Date, Guest L, India Celebs, Dress Code, Best Dressed Red Carpet Looks
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at the Met Gala last year. (Source: Instagram/@themetgalaofficial)
Met Gala 2026 LIVE Updates: The first Monday of May is here, and you know what that means — it’s Met Monday! The fashion fraternity is all set to celebrate ‘Costume Art’, the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York. The carpet rolls out on the iconic steps as we wait in anticipation for Bollywood and Hollywood’s best to attend the annual Met Gala — a true celebration of fashion and art.
This year, the theme for the Gala is “Fashion is art”. With Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams serving as co-chairs, the May 4 event invites attendees to interpret fashion as an embodied art form, in line with the dress code, “Costume art”.Story continues below this ad
Inspired the exhibit that went on display this spring, the theme goes beyond the question of what we wear, opening the floor to a broader dialogue on how the body itself becomes a site of aesthetic expression, asking guests to “examine the centrality of the dressed body.”
From India, this year’s biggest representation comes from filmmaker Karan Johar, who is all set to walk the Met Gala carpet in collaboration with long-time friend and ace designer Manish Malhotra. Isha Ambani, Mona Patel, Natasha Poonawalla, and Sudha Reddy have also confirmed their attendance. As for Bollywood icons, online speculation continues to run amok.
Keep reading as we bring you LIVE updates from the annual Met Gala:
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