Anna Wintour may run a tight ship, but she is no dictator. Despite rumors to the contrary, the former editor-in-chief for Vogue doesn’t approve the final looks for the Met Gala attendees-but that doesn’t mean she won’t share an opinion.
“Many call and ask our advice,” she said of the Gala’s guests during a 2025 interview on Good Morning America, “so we try and help some of them as best we can. Some, no idea.”
Hopefully, the celebrities preparing for this year’s theme of “Costume Art” and its dress code of “Fashion Is Art” receive the same level of feedback that Colman Domingo did ahead of the 2025 event. According to the Euphoria star-who was also one of the co-chairs at last year’s event-when he showed Anna a preview of his interpretation of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” she called it a “work of art.”
And indeed, during her chat with GMA she did confirm the bold, black-and-white suit he wore under a cape was “a clever idea.” As for this year’s co-chairs-Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams-the three fashion icons are sure to similarly deliver. After all, Beyoncé in particular has to show up and show out, after not appearing on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps since 2016. Also having a place of prominence at this year’s Met Gala are Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos, who are the primary donors for the 2026 event.
But while Anna doesn’t control how people show up to the exclusive soiree, the 76-year-old does play a part in what they eat inside. And Anna’s biggest culinary faux pas? Serving anything that can give an attendee bad breath, meaning you won’t see anything with chives, onions or too much garlic served at the Met Gala dinner. Plus, she noted to Today’s Jenna Bush Hager in 2024, “Those are three things I’m not particularly fond of.”
The fashion connoisseur also famously prohibits the use of phones inside the walls of the annual fundraiser. “It’s often wonderful to hear, after dinner, people say, ‘Oh we had the most wonderful conversations,'” Anna added to Jenna. “So that’s the idea, that life can exist without a picture on your cell phone.”