The 2026 edition of the Met Gala, the annual high mass of luxury and fashion chaired this year by multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos, took place on Sunday against a backdrop of demonstrations against the opulence of the ultra-rich.
On this first Monday in May, the famous staircase of Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) dressed up as a spring garden to welcome celebrities under a ceiling draped in white wisteria.
Acteur Connor Storrie, here incarnated hockey player Ilya Rozanov in the series “Passionate Rivalry”.
Photo : getty images for the met museum/ / Dimitrios Kambouris
Pop stars, athletes, ultra-rich personalities and the Hollywood elite have posed to show off their flamboyant finery between two rows of photographers trying to capture one of these photos that are setting social networks ablaze.
Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Doja Cat, Kim Kardashian, Madonna and Cardi B, among others, appeared in eccentric outfits multiplying allusions, some more obscure than others, to art in all its forms.
Sabrina Carpenter’s dress was partly made from film from Audrey Hepburn’s “Sabrina”.
Photo : Getty Images / Mike Coppola
The event, which takes place every first Monday in May, raises funds for the Metropolitan Costume Institute. His next exhibition explores the relationship between clothing and bodies, hence this year’s theme: Fashion is art
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Lauren Sanchez Bezos speaks during the Met Gala press conference on May 4, 2026 in New York.
Photo : Getty Images / Roy Rochlin
The institution raised several tens of millions of dollars for the occasion, thanks in part to funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, its controversial honorary president.
His role in the event, shared with his wife, sparked a wave of indignation among activists, who denounce the intimacy and excessive luxury depicted by the gala.
Protesters gather a few blocks from where the Met Gala is being held on May 4, 2026, in New York.
Photo : Getty Images / Spencer Platt
A few weeks earlier, a campaign calling for a boycott of the gala in New York was launched by the organization Everyone hates Elon
(in reference to the billionaire and founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk), pointing out the rapprochement between these technology giants and President Donald Trump.
Monday evening, demonstrators gathered around the museum chanting: Let’s eat the rich
, Let’s tax the rich
or Bezos and Epstein’s class are no longer fashionable
.
Protesters gathered outside the Met Gala in New York.
Photo : Getty Images / Spencer Platt
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani also indicated that he was going to skip the gala this year to focus on affordability issues in the city.
The former editor-in-chief of the magazine VogueAnna Wintour, a rather souligné que son amie
Lauren Sanchez Bezos and her husband truly passionate about giving back to the community
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Heidi Klum, nicknamed the “Queen of Halloween”, appeared in statue.
Photo : Getty Images / Dimitrios Kambouris
Much anticipated for her first appearance in 10 years, singer Beyoncé showed off a skeletal dress by French designer Olivier Rousteing on the red carpet. For her part, true to her passion for eccentric costumes, model Heidi Klum was transformed into a hyper-realistic statue inspired by Italian sculptor Raffaele Monti.
Last year, the famous 5th Avenue museum raised a record amount of $31 million under the theme of fashion through the black diasporas in the United States.
With information from CBC, Reuters and Agence France-Presse
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