Venus Williams will be serving up style on one of fashion’s biggest nights next year.<\/p>\n
The seven-time Grand Slam champion will co-chair the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Met Gala in 2026, it was announced on Wednesday. Williams will join singer Beyonc\u00e9, actor Nicole Kidman, and former longtime editor-in-chief of\u00a0Vogue Anna Wintour in the ceremonial role on May 4.<\/p>\n
Williams will be the third former WTA World No. 1 in recent years to co-chair the star-studded affair, a pop-culture behemoth that raises funds annually to benefit of the museum’s Costume Institute in New York City. Her younger sister Serena served as co-chair in 2019 and Naomi Osaka took on the responsibility in 2021. ATP legend Roger Federer also held the role in 2023.<\/p>\n
Williams and her fellow co-chairs — whom Vogue hailed as “major forces from the worlds of entertainment, sport, and, of course, fashion” in its story announcing them — will collaborate on a theme entitled \u201cCostume Art.” Also according to the magazine, the theme will “explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath.”<\/a><\/p>\n “The show — organized into a series of thematic body types, ranging from the Naked Body to the Pregnant Body and the Aging Body — will include garments and artworks from across The Met\u2019s vast collection, and feature both historical and contemporary pieces from the Costume Institute,” it says.<\/p>\n Williams has been a fixture on the Met Gala red carpet in recent years, attending four of the last five. Last spring, she styled her look around tennis in celebration of a “Superfine” theme, and wore a custom skirt, polo, and cape by Lacoste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams will be serving up style on one of fashion’s biggest nights next year. The seven-time Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-344016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}