Given how essential celebrity wrangling is to the Met Gala , enlisting Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams to be among the co-chairs should help to up the star wattage at the May 4 event.

Along with helping Anna Wintour attract fellow big spenders to what is the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Knowles-Carter and Kidman, along with the other members of the host committee, have a true understanding of this year’s exhibition theme, “Costume Art.”

In fact, nearly every one of them has donned a costume (keeping that definition loose depending on their specialty), performed on a stage or walked a runway. One of the exceptions is the host committee’s co-chair Anthony Vaccarello, the creative director of Saint Laurent, which is a

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