The Met Gala Is One Week Away!

Plus More from Vogue View in Browser       Update Preferences NICOLE PHELPS DIRECTOR, VOGUE RUNWAY NICOLE PHELPS DIRECTOR, VOGUE RUNWAY Each Monday in April, Vogue editors will take you inside what’s shaping this year’s conversation—spotlighting standout looks, revisiting memorable moments from the archive, and sharing the perspectives that make the Met Gala fashion’s most anticipated night. Every year, Vogue’s fashion team is charged with producing dozens of pre-Met Gala pieces. We are the front line: stirring curiosity, building momentum, and otherwise keeping the Costume Institute and the First Monday in May in the cultural conversation. It’s one of my favorite moments in the calendar, a time of anticipation, but also one of looking back and appreciating the long arc of fashion history. This time around, I had the plum assignment of speaking to Andrew Bolton shortly before he announced this year’s theme: “Costume Art,” which celebrates the Costume Institute’s new home in the Condé M. Nast Galleries, just off The Met’s Great Hall. He told me: “What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body. It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum… I know that we’ve often been seen as the stepchild, but, in fact, the dressed body is front and center in every gallery you come across. Even the nude is never naked. It’s always inscribed with cultural values and ideas.” Bolton’s summation is a sort of credo at Vogue HQ: fashion is always about a lot more than clothes. In the spirit of keeping the First Monday in May in the conversation, here are two of the Met Gala’s best naked dresses of all time: Daria Werbowy in Azzedine Alaia at 2007’s “Poiret: King of Fashion” gala and Anja Rubik wearing a dress by Anthony Vaccarello, the co-chair of this year’s exhibition, at 2012’s “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” event. Tune into our livestream next Monday for all the Met Gala coverage—from red carpet arrivals and standout fashion to the night’s biggest moments! “Costume Art” Is the First Exhibition in the Costume Institute’s New Permanent Galleries at The Met BY NICOLE PHELPS The Condé M. Nast Galleries’ inaugural Costume Institute show, “Costume Art,” will highlight the centrality of the dressed body in The Met’s millennia-deep collection. READ MORE Nicole’s Met Gala Favorites Models at the Met Gala: All the Looks, All the Credits, All in One Place BY LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON Visual histories of your favorite models’ Met Gala looks. SEE MORE Ahead of the Met Gala, We Assembled a Stellar Lineup of Creatives in Fashion Worthy of a Museum BY VOGUE Artists, models, performers, and activists animate spring’s most beguiling silhouettes LEARN MORE A First Look at the Met’s “Costume Art” Catalog BY LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON A highlight of the exhibition catalog are the commissioned assemblages by Julie Wolfe and Nathalie Agussol. In addition, for the first time in a decade, the Met will release a related limited edition collectors box, The Electric Body. READ MORE Revisiting Met Gala Moments All the Looks That Made It From the Runway to the Met Gala Red Carpet Side-by-sides of looks as they debuted, and came to life. The Magazine as Museum: 18 Vogue Editorials Inspired by Art Throughout its history Vogue has published fashion photographs inspired by paintings and sculptures by some of the world’s greatest artists. See how the work of the likes of Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edward Hopper, got the fashion treatment. Nobody Loved an Art Reference More Than Yves Saint Laurent Ahead of the 2026 Met Gala, “Costume Art,” see the artists who inspired Yves Saint Laurent, from Vincent van Gogh to Piet Mondrian. MORE FROM VOGUE This e-mail was sent to you by Vogue.com. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vogue@mail.vogue.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2026. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.