{"id":564891,"date":"2026-05-04T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:13","slug":"met-gala-2026-whats-the-theme-how-to-watch-and-how-much-does-a-ticket-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564891\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala 2026: What&#8217;s the theme, how to watch and how much does a ticket cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Gala is a relatively small event, only open to a small number of invited guests &#8211; usually around 450.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tables cost upwards of around $350,000 (\u00a3258,000), while individual tickets are reported to go for about $75,000 (\u00a356,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Very few celebrities actually pay for their own tickets, however. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They instead receive invitations from fashion brands, many of whom host celebrities as their guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If an A-list star wears the brand&#8217;s clothes and sits at their table, it generates publicity for the company that justifies the price of the table. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But despite picking up the bill, fashion houses still need to run every proposed guest past the queen of fashion herself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Wintour, chair of the Met Gala since 1995 and head of content at Vogue publisher Cond\u00e9 Nast, personally has to sign off on every invitation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Gala is a relatively small event, only open to a small number of invited guests &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}