With ‘Costume Art’, the Met makes a case for making fashion diverse again
Wallpaper | 05.05.2026 19:16
With all the brouhaha surrounding this year’s Met Gala, you’d be forgiven if you forgot that the glittering soirée helps preserve and maintain one of the most important fashion collections in the world, the Costume Institute. And like the parade of celebrities (Bad Bunny, Beyoncé and – yes – lead gala sponsors Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos) who swanned down a cobblestone carpet, the Costume Institute itself enjoyed its own coming-out party: the inauguration of its sparkling new Condé M. Nast galleries.
