Le Met Gala, une institution dans l’institution
Le Met Gala 2026 took place on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams. The event raised a record $42 million for the Costume Institute, with celebrities like Madonna and Kendall Jenner attending under the dress code 'Fashion is Art'. The gala also opened the exhibition 'Costume Art', curated by Andrew Bolton, featuring 25 new mannequins with diverse body types.
The Met Gala has evolved from a discreet 1948 fundraiser organized by Eleanor Lambert into a global media spectacle, largely due to Anna Wintour's leadership since 1995. While the event is often seen as a celebrity parade, it is a crucial philanthropic engine for the Costume Institute, the only Met department that must self-fund entirely. The record fundraising underscores the gala's institutional importance, though this year's edition was shadowed by a controversy involving the founder of A...