Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World’s 16th earthly incarnation, Gaia, is a spectacular, one-night only celebration of the planet we call home.
Gaia is a nod to the late chemist James Lovelock’s famous theory. The Gaia Theory proposes that Earth’s living organisms and nonliving environment act as a single, self-regulating superorganism. 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, à la Crufts, on poise, personality and originality by a distinguished panel of judges.
Since 1972 sculptor Andrew Logan has been hosting this fabulous beauty pageant attracting trailblazing creatives including Grayson Perry, Divine, Leigh Bowery, Jenny Runacre, Derek Jarman, Jarvis Cocker, Zandra Rhodes, Princess Julia and Daniel Lismore.
The event is a pioneering celebration of British Queer Culture so dress up as we praise mother earth. Gaia’s the word! Who will grace the open-air stage with their earthly presence this September?
Tickets for Alternative Miss World 2026: Gaia go on sale at 2pm on Thursday 23 July.
The Regent’s Park, Inner Cir, London NW1 4NU, United Kingdom.
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