"It Will Still Be Underwhelming": Met Gala's Announcement Of 2026 Dress Code Sparks Controversy Seema SinhaMon, February 23, 2026 at 10:27 PM UTC 0 The dress code for the 2026 Met Gala, set to take place on May 4, following the longstanding tradition of being held on the first Monday of May, has been announced as "Fashion Is Art." The theme will celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring 2026 exhibit, which embraces a "Costume Art" concept.

"It Will Still Be Underwhelming": Met Gala's Announcement Of 2026 Dress Code Sparks Controversy

Seema SinhaMon, February 23, 2026 at 10:27 PM UTC

The dress code for the 2026 Met Gala, set to take place on May 4, following the longstanding tradition of being held on the first Monday of May, has been announced as "Fashion Is Art."

The theme will celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring 2026 exhibit, which embraces a "Costume Art" concept.

"Prepare to see some outfits that shouldn't see the light of day," one user commented, while another added, "'Fashion Is Art' will mean wearing the weirdest thing and calling it genius."

Vogue made the announcement via its social media channels on Monday, February 23, sharing that the gala's co-chairs will include Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, the global chief content officer of all Condé Nast brands, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, The New Yorker, and Glamour.

Dress code for the 2026 Met Gala announced with all-women co-chairs

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The Met Gala is held every year to fund the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the curatorial department dedicated to the study, preservation, and exhibition of fashion as an art form.

According to the latest announcement, this year's dress code invites guests to "consider the many ways designers use the body as their canvas." Despite the creative freedom it offers, social media reactions to the directive have been largely pessimistic.

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The showcase planned for this year will feature nearly 400 objects, pairing garments with paintings, sculptures, and other works spanning some 5,000 years of art history.

Andrew Bolton, curator of the institute, quipped on Monday that the dress code for this year "will put an end to the rather obsolete 'Is Fashion Art?' debate once and for all."

Netizens do not have as high hopes as he does for the guests, whose names will remain under wraps until the night of the soirée

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"It will still be underwhelming," an X user said, while another added, "People will show up in a paint-splattered blazer calling it conceptual."

"Time to see more ridiculous costumes this year," a third added.

"Isn't this the general theme every year?" criticized a fourth.

Social media appeared to have expectations from some women in showbiz to make good use of the dress code, though.

"Lady Gaga better attend. This theme is so her," one said.

"Cardi B will eat this theme," a second added.

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"Zendaya and Rihanna are about to take it personally," the next noted.

For male celebrities, one said they "will arrive in the same black tux they've had since Barack Obama was president."

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Last year's Met Gala dress code was "Tailored for You," which supported the Costume Institute's exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

The dress code encouraged structured silhouettes to pay homage to Black fashion icons.

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Co-hosts for the last edition of fashion's biggest night were also celebrities of color, including Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Zendaya, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and more.

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Those who did not do justice to last year's dress code, according to Vogue itself, included names like Gigi Hadid, FKA Twigs, Serena Williams, Anne Hathaway, and Diana Ross, among others.

Gigi Hadid's golden Miu Miu moment had no visible nod to Black fashion or structured tailoring.

FKA Twigs arrived at the event in a Wales Bonner dress that again lacked structure.

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Serena Williams' silver Moncler x EE72 dress, cut from satin fabric, failed to align with the tailored directive of the event, while Anne Hathaway, who is known to rock almost any design, disappointed in a mediocre white T-shirt paired with an embellished silver-and-black skirt.

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Diana Ross also opted for a gown with a plunging neckline that lacked tailored elements, and her long, feathered train did not add the required charm to her attire either.

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The 2025 edition marked the first menswear-focused Met Gala theme in over two decades, since "Men in Skirts" in 2003.

The dress code and co-chair announcement on Monday followed the announcement of the Met Gala Host Committee last year

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The 2026 Met Gala Host Committee, announced in December 2025 includes Zoë Kravitz, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, and Lisa.

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Designer Anthony Vaccarello, Gwendoline Christie, Paloma Elsesser, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A'ja Wilson, Yseult, and Vogue's new editor-in-chief, Chloe Malle, are also on the committee.

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On Monday, Vogue dropped more names from the host committee: Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and Chase Sui Wonders.

The gala's lead sponsors and honorary chairs will be Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez

"Is it just me, or are these themes getting more and more generalized every year?" a netizen probed

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Tom Hanks Will Play His Distant Relative Abraham Lincoln in Upcoming Movie Jack SmartMon, February 23, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC 0 Tom Hanks; Abraham Lincoln CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty; Bettmann/Getty Tom Hanks will play Abraham Lincoln in a screen adaptation of George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo Duke Johnson will direct the biopic, with Hanks also serving as producer The Oscarwinning actor is distantly related to Lincoln Tom Hanks will play a former U.S. president — and distant relation — in an upcoming biopic.

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Tom Hanks will play Abraham Lincoln in a screen adaptation of George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo

Duke Johnson will direct the biopic, with Hanks also serving as producer

The Oscar-winning actor is distantly related to Lincoln

Tom Hanks will play a former U.S. president — and distant relation — in an upcoming biopic.

Lincoln in the Bardo, based on George Saunders' bestselling 2017 novel of the same name, will star Hanks, 69, as Abraham Lincoln. Per Deadline, it will be a hybrid movie combining live-action filmmaking and stop-motion animation.

The Forrest Gump Oscar winner is a distant cousin of the 16th president's mother, whose name was Nancy Hanks, according to Ancestry.com.

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In addition to starring, Hanks will produce Lincoln in the Bardo through his Playtone label with partner Gary Goetzman. The film will be directed and produced by Oscar-nominated Anomalisa filmmaker Duke Johnson.

Deadline reports that the film will "explore one of the most intimate moments of Lincoln's life, centering on his relationship with his recently deceased 11-year-old son. The movie will explore themes of love, empathy and human capacity in the face of grief as the story unfolds through an ensemble of characters, both living and dead, historical and invented."

Hanks is no stranger to playing real people on the big screen. Among his dozens of credits are Walt Disney in 2013's Saving Mr. Banks, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger in 2016's Sully and Fred Rodgers in 2019's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He served as narrator on the 2011 television program Killing Lincoln, a docudrama about John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln.

In a 2021 op-ed for The New York Times, Hanks wrote that he considers himself "a lay historian who talks way too much at dinner parties, leading with questions like, 'Do you know that the Erie Canal is the reason Manhattan became the economic center of America?' Some of the work I do is making historically based entertainment."

Among Hanks' other upcoming screen projects are reprising his voice role as Woody in Toy Story 5 (in theaters June 19) and a sequel to his 2020 WWII naval drama Greyhound.

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Elle Fanning Calls Older Sister Dakota the &x27;Coolest Person Anyone Will Ever Meet&x27; in Celebration of Her 32nd Birthday Tommy McArdleMon, February 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM UTC 0 Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning via Instagram, Feb. 23, 2026 Elle Fanning/Instagram Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning both shared posts on Instagram in celebration of Dakota's 32nd birthday Dakota and Elle often share loving social media posts about each other on their birthdays The Fanning sisters are currently preparing to film their firstever movie in which they act opposite each other, titled The Nightingale Elle F...

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Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning both shared posts on Instagram in celebration of Dakota's 32nd birthday

Dakota and Elle often share loving social media posts about each other on their birthdays

The Fanning sisters are currently preparing to film their first-ever movie in which they act opposite each other, titled The Nightingale

Elle Fanning is celebrating her older sister Dakota Fanning's birthday.

Dakota turned 32 on Monday, Feb. 23. Elle, 27, marked the occasion by sharing a short video of her and her sister dancing together and embracing one another to Instagram. "Our song. Your birthday. My sister. 🥳🥳," Elle wrote in a caption to her post. "She is the coolest person anyone will ever meet and I'm the lucky one who gets to call her mine! 💗 I love you @dakotafanning."

"Love you the most!!!!!" Dakota wrote in a comment to Elle's post, in response. The All Her Fault actress also shared a baby photo of herself sitting in front of a birthday cake to her own Instagram page in celebration of her birthday, where she wrote, "making a really good wish this year 🎂" in her own caption.

"Love you more than anything 💗," Elle wrote in a comment to Dakota's own post. Dakota also received birthday well-wishes from famous friends like Reese Witherspoon, Andy Garcia, Christina Hendrix and Abigail Breslin, among others, in the comments of Elle's Instagram post. "Awww! Love this💕Happy Birthday Dakota !!" Witherspoon, 49, wrote in a comment.

Elle and Dakota, who have each been acting since they were small children, frequently post about each other and hype each other up, particularly on each sister's birthday. When Elle turned 27 in April 2025, Dakota shared the pair's "first photo together," snapped with their mother Hannah in the hospital shortly after Elle's birth.

"I was asleep in the delivery room during Elle's birth, so I can really say we have been together from the start," Dakota wrote in the caption to that Instagram post. "What an honor that has been, and I can't wait for the rest."

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Dakota's birthday comes as she and Elle prepare to film an upcoming movie together titled The Nightingale, which will mark the first time the sisters have worked together on the big screen.

"She's promised me that she's not gonna boss me around," Elle said on the red carpet at the Golden Globes in January, when asked by E! about how she expects she and Dakota will behave on set together. "That's what she's promised . . . the older sister. You can't! You have to treat me like a fellow actor." The Nightingale, which is expected to release in theaters in February 2027, is based on Kristin Hannah's historical fiction novel of the same name, which follows two sisters in France during World War II.

"In a couple months we are about to go film," she added at the time. "It's taken a couple years in the making, but . . . we are finally, really doing it this time."

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The View's Whoopi Goldberg Throws Shade at FBI Director Kash PatelDebbie KrencickiMon, February 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM UTC 0 Photo Credit: XNY/Star Max/GC Images via Getty Images Overall, the hosts of The View were unimpressed by Kash Patel partying with the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team. When a video showing the FBI Director celebrating surfaced over the weekend, some suggested it was in poor taste. After all, the FBI investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is still ongoing. But host Whoopi Goldberg offered a different perspective, as she often does.

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Overall, the hosts of The View were unimpressed by Kash Patel partying with the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team. When a video showing the FBI Director celebrating surfaced over the weekend, some suggested it was in poor taste. After all, the FBI investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is still ongoing.

But host Whoopi Goldberg offered a different perspective, as she often does. She suggested that the FBI sent Patel off to the Winter Olympics simply to get him out of the way.

A viral video of Kash Patel celebrating with the Team USA men's hockey team caused debate

In the video, the Director is seen celebrating with the team in their locker room following their Gold Medal win. As the party goes on, Patel is shown yelling, waving his arms and guzzling a beer.

"A lot of people are upset and accused him of partying on the taxpayers' dime," Whoopi commented. "His spokesperson says he was in Milan on official business … [But aren't] there more officially pressing business matters to be dealt with here in the states?"

And you can't expect the Director of the FBI to fly commercial. According to Whoopi, It [costs] about $5,000 per flight hour for the FBI gulfstream to fly … [That means] his trip to Milan is likely costing American taxpayers $75,000."

Ultimately, Whoopi thought the FBI sent Patel off to Milan "so they don't have to deal with him," she said today. "Because they know he doesn't know what he's doing. They know that he is incompetent [and he's] just a joke."

"He's a joke to the rest of the world," she concluded. "For most of the people working in the FBI, it is not a joke. They're the ones whose eyes are on the ball."

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Chris Hemsworth Reveals He Has Multiple Tattoos Inspired by His 13YearOld Daughter&x27;s Drawings Kayla GrantMon, February 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM UTC 0 Chris Hemsworth Ian West/PA Images via Getty Chris Hemsworth may get "sick" of some of his tattoos, but there are some that he will always keep During his appearance on the SmartLess podcast, the proud dad of three shared the backstory of some of his ink Hemsworth is a father to twin boys Sasha and Tristan, and daughter India Chris Hemsworth may get "sick" of some of his tattoos, but there are some that he will always keep per his daughter's reque...

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Chris Hemsworth may get "sick" of some of his tattoos, but there are some that he will always keep per his daughter's requests.

The Thor star, 43, recently joined Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes during the latest episode of their SmartLess podcast, where he shared the backstory behind some of the ink on his body. Hemsworth shared that he often grows "sick" of his tattoos, revealing that he almost had one removed but his daughter India stopped him.

"My Dr. Seuss tattoo ... I used to read that book to her a lot, and my mom read it to me — Oh, the Places You'll Go — and she just would draw that little character and loved it," he shared. "And so I got that tattoo."

"A few years later, I was like, I'm kinda sick of it. So I started getting it taken off, I did like one laser session, and then she came home one day, and she goes, 'It's rubbing off. What happened to it? It's rubbing off,' " Hemsworth recalled, saying that he thought she had also outgrown the tattoo and was "sick" of it. "She goes, 'No. I love it.' So, it's now kind of half faded, you know, but it's still there."

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The Crime 101 star also revealed that he has more tattoos inspired by his daughter on his arm. He pointed out other little drawings from her that are now permanently etched on his skin.

"I was sitting with a tattoo artist one night, and it was, like, 10:00, and he's designing all these different things and all this sort of sacred geometry and trippy-looking stuff. And my daughter walked out and goes, 'Dad, I can't sleep. You're making too much noise.' I'm like, 'Sorry. Sorry,' " he recalled from the evening. "And she sits down and starts squiggling and and drew the three little images here.""[My tattoo artist] looked at me and goes, 'I think [her drawings are] way cooler than anything we're designing, and so I took a photo of that, and that's that," the doting dad continued.

Since tying the knot in 2010, Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky welcomed three children together: daughter India and twin boys Sasha and Tristan, 11. While attending the world premiere of Crime 101 at United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. 10, Hemsworth revealed exclusively to PEOPLE what his children think of his acting career.

"They don't care. They don't care at all," Hemsworth quipped of his children, when asked if he's scoring "cool points" for being a global movie star.

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The actor revealed his children were wowed by his films when they were younger, but have since changed their perspective.

"I reckon when they first realized I was Thor, they thought it was really cool," Hemsworth told PEOPLE. "And then they realized they couldn't fly and they thought it was less cool."

"Now they're just like, 'ah, Dad, whatever,' " he said, adding, "Teenagers."

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