The attendees at the 2026 Met Gala certainly belong in a museum. Check out how Emma Chamberlain, Ashley Graham, La La Anthony and others at the May 4 event interpreted the "Fashion Is Art" dress code.
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Prepare to see some real works of art strutting up the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
With "Costume Art" serving as the theme of the 2026 Met Gala—and its corresponding exhibit—notes stylist Law Roach, there should be a wide range of masterpieces on display at the annual May 4 event.
"You’re always excited to see the way people interpret the theme," Zendaya's main fashion pro told E! News in March, "and Fashion Is Art is a very broad theme."
And yes, he expects at least one attendee—invitees include Rihanna, Teyana Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat and event co-chairs Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour—to go quite literal.
"Maybe we’ll see someone dressed as the Mona Lisa," Roach predicted, "which I’m sure somebody will do that."
After all, the goal of the yearly first-Monday-in-May charity event is to be iconic.
So, Ashley Graham served statue, pairing her custom DiPetaa gown with a gilded mani.
"A little chrome, a little dipped silver," the model explained to Zuri Hall during Live From E!: Met Gala 2026, "like, you know, a statue coming to life. Fashion is art."
And, hard work.
"It's a lot of stress and they're only on the carpet for like five minutes," Roach noted to E!, "and then you go in and it's all over. So, it's months and months of hard work for a five-minute payout."
Take the team tasked with measuring the museum's front doors last year to ensure musician André 3000 and the Pink Sparrow’s Steinway Model S baby grand piano strapped to his back would fit through.
As A$AP Rocky noted afterwards on Late Nigh With Seth Meyers, "He stole the show!"
And with this year's "Fashion Is Art" dress code, there's a lot for the sartorially minded to play around with.
The nearly 400-piece Costume Institute exhibition, set to live in the Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, will focus on the "indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear," curator Andrew Bolton explained to Vogue. "The idea was to put the body back into discussions about art and fashion, and to embrace the body, not to take it away as a way of elevating fashion to an art form."
And the looks stars crafted were certainly stunning. Hang all of these in a museum.
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Cara Delevingne
in Ralph Lauren.
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La La Anthony
in Wiederhoeft and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
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Ashley Graham
in custom DiPetaa.
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Emma Chamberlain
in custom Mugler by Miguel Castro Freitas.
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Deborah Roberts
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Zuri Hall
in Kim Kassas Couture and Manolo Blahnik shoes.