Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World 2026: Gaia

The world's most gloriously unruly pageant returns and this time, it's going back to nature. Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World arrives at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for its 16th earthly incarnation, Gaia, a spectacular, one-night-only celebration of the planet we call home. A nod to the late chemist James Lovelock?s famous hypothesis, Gaia celebrates the world as a living organism where planet and passengers are interconnected and interdependent. With all the ecological bad news darkening our horizons and flickering across our phones, it promises a fabulously fitting and much needed night of festivity. And what better way to pay homage to this beautifully complex system we call Earth than with the organised chaos of the Alternative Miss World? Contestants take to the stage in creative interpretations of the theme across three rounds, daywear, swimwear and evening wear, each judged, ? la Crufts, on poise, personality and originality by a distinguished panel of judges.Born in artist Andrew Logan's Hackney studio in 1972, the Alternative Miss World has graced stages ranging from Olympia to Clapham Common, the Camden Roundhouse to Shakespeare's Globe. Past participants read like a glittering roll-call of British culture: Divine, Jarvis Cocker, Grayson Perry, David Hockney, Derek Jarman, Julian Clary, Janet Street-Porter and Simon Callow among them. Who will grace our open air stage with their earthly presence this September? Under London's, hopefully dry skies, the spectacle continues.