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From Mexico City to Kensington Gardens: Inside the 2026 Serpentine Summer Party

Salma Hayek Pinault co-hosted the latest edition of the hotly anticipated annual art fête, which this year drew Jeff Goldblum, Anish Kapoor, Michael B. Jordan, Grayson Perry, Isla Fisher, Michael Bloomberg and Nicky Hilton.

On Tuesday (June 23), as the setting sun bathed London’s Kensington Gardens in a honey-tinted glow, the Serpentine Summer Party—annually one of the U.K. art scene’s most fashion-forward events—returned in characteristically impeccable form. This year’s fête was hosted by arts patron and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek and artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist, with co-hosts actress Salma Hayek Pinault and filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Arts patron and entrepreneur Isha Ambani (in a look by Steve O Smith) returned for her second year as chair of the host committee.

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