Met Gala 2026 Red Carpet Looks: See Every Celebrity Outfit And Dress

When Beyoncé entered the 2026 Met Gala, it felt like watching a galleon pull into harbour. There she was, ten years since her last appearance, ensconced in $50 million worth of Chopard jewels and a feathered degradé cape that took up at least a third of whatever patch of red carpet she occupied. Then, as though the sails had been furled, she advanced slowly through a strobe of flashbulbs and screams before arriving at the top of Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps, where the doors of the great hall seemed to bow at her approach. If that sounds at all exaggerated, then please, rewatch the moment on Vogue’s livestream.
Scenes like these are what the Met Gala – okay, beyond raising funds for the Costume Institute, which this year amounted to a record $42 million – is all about: guests from all corners of culture climbing the red carpet in pursuit of a single, career-defining photograph. Such as Heidi Klum posing within a soft foam latex costume inspired by Raffaele Monti’s 19th-century sculpture Veiled Vestal – her take on the evening’s “Fashion is Art” dress code, which took its cue from the Costume Art exhibition’s exploration of how the human body is represented within the museum’s archive. There were looks just as absurd – Katy Perry in a face-obscuring helmet, Bad Bunny in aged-up prosthetics, Madonna in a tulle cape suspended from a ship balanced on her head and carried by seven women – but the best looks were those capable igniting the internet while also withstanding a more rigorous reading in the days that followed. Like Kim Kardashian in a fibreglass breastplate designed by pop artist Allen Jones, or Hailey Bieber wearing a 24-karat gold Saint Laurent breastplate in reference to Yves Saint Laurent’s work with French artist and sculptor Claude Lalanne in the 1960s.
Those artificial torsos were about as naked as the guests got, which is perhaps surprising given both the exhibition’s theme and the Met Gala’s tradition of barely-there dressing. There was Kylie Jenner in a Schiaparelli gown that mimicked a garment slipping from a naked torso; Alex Consani, cinched into a transparent corseted dress with a black feather train by Gucci; and Doechii in a Marc Jacobs look reminiscent of a deconstructed toga. Even Zoë Kravitz – who once arrived at the Met Gala in little more than body jewellery – wore a lace dress with an exaggerated peplum by Saint Laurent. The latter was, in a way, the look of the evening: not because it was the most successful, but because it represented an unexpected trend towards restraint. Model of the moment Bhavitha Mandava turned up in jeans and a quarter-zip, while Charli xcx wore a black Saint Laurent gown fronted with a single resin iris flower. They all looked chic, of course, but also like fishing boats bobbing in Beyoncé’s wake.
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