Forbes – The first Monday in May tends to mean one thing for anyone with even a passing interest in fashion: the Met Gala. This year’s event takes place on May 4, 2026, as the annual benefit for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and the opening of its spring exhibition, Costume Art. With the theme of “Fashion Is Art,” which, according to the Met, “invites guests to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.” – read more