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Met Gala 2026: Best looks from fashion's biggest night of celebration

EuroNews · · 187 words · By Tokunbo Salako; Yolaine De Kerchove Dexaerde
Corporate Sponsorship Protest Celebrity Culture High Fashion
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“many other celebrities converged at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Multiple independent sources confirm celebrities attended the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, including NBC New York and other web search results specifically mentioning the 2026 event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mary Sully (1896–1963) was a Yankton Dakota avant-garde artist. Her work remained largely unknown until the early 21st century. Sully is best known for her colored-pencil triptychs and "personality pr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute on the Museum M…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion is the 2024 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) which houses the collection of the Cos…
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“This year's event was perhaps overshadowed however by an absence of stars who opted to stay away in protest at its sponsorship by Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Laura Sanchez-Bezos.”
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Multiple independent sources (Business Insider, Google News, and reports of posters in NYC) confirm that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are sponsors and that this has led to boycott calls and protests.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989), also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional distr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute on the Museum M…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Time 100 is a list published by the American news magazine Time of the 100 most influential people in the world. First published in 1999 as the result of a debate among American academics, politic…
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“hundreds of celebrities, ranging from A-list actors, chart-topping musicians and top sports stars did attend to celebrate the theme of 'Costume Art'”
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Multiple web search results explicitly confirm the 2026 Met Gala theme is 'Costume Art' and that celebrities (including Beyoncé) attended the event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Julia Margaret Flesher Koch (born April 12, 1962) is an American socialite and philanthropist who is one of the richest women in the world. As of May 2025, her fortune was over $74.2 billion. She inhe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art mus…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲, Kawakubo Rei) (born 11 October 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Kawakubo
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“the hugely expensive fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute is a global platform and one of the world's most closely scrutinised red carpets.”
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Wikipedia and the official Metropolitan Museum of Art website confirm that the Met Gala (Costume Institute Benefit) is the primary fundraising event for the Costume Institute.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Met Gala is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan. Met Gala may also refer to: Met Gala (album), or the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gala Dalí (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Елена Ивановна Дьяконова; 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1894 – 10 June 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of poet Paul Éluard (1895–1952) and la…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute on the Museum M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Gala
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