The 2026 Met Gala has an ambiguous dress code this year, “Fashion is Art,” allowing guests to come up with whatever they can imagine for the event.
According to an announcement from Vogue Monday, the dress code reflects the spirit of the event’s theme, “Costume Art,” which pairs garments with objects from across the Metropolitan Museum of Art to show how fashion has long been intertwined with different art forms.
So, the dress code encourages guests to think about how designers can use their bodies as a blank canvas.
“What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body,” Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, the sole beneficiary of the annual Met Gala, said in a statement. “It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was.”
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