Celebrities at the 2026 Met Gala embraced the 'Fashion Is Art' dress code with surreal accessories, masks, and direct references to famous artworks. Attendees like Gwendoline Christie and Katy Perry wore eerie masks, while others channeled paintings by Klimt and Sargent. The event highlighted bold interpretations of art history on the red carpet.
The 2026 Met Gala red carpet featured striking uncanny elements under the 'Fashion Is Art' theme. Gwendoline Christie wore a scarlet tulle dress by Giles Deacon with a multicolored feathered headpiece by Stephen Jones and a mask by artist Gillian Wearing, inspired by John Singer Sargent’s portraits and Madame Yevonde’s 1938 photograph. Katy Perry donned a mirrored astronaut-like mask by Miodrag Guberinic with her custom Stella McCartney gown, complete with gloves featuring a sixth finger poking fun at AI image errors, and she pulled tarot cards on the carpet. Jordan Roth arrived with a 3D-printed sculpture embracing him from behind in a gray Robert Wun gown, exploring what it means to 'live in that sculpture,' he told Vogue. 'A solo figure is often posing for the viewer, but multiple figures are usually in some kind of heated moment—romance, love, lust, fear, violence,' Roth said. 'Something passionate is going on among these bodies.' Lisa from Blackpink had her arms 3D-scanned for a custom Robert Wun look mimicking Thai dance movements, while María Zardoya twinned with a 1910-1925 porcelain doll representing her younger self, now auctioned for the Save the Music Foundation. Madonna brought seven ladies-in-waiting in a Saint Laurent look inspired by Surrealist Leonora Carrington, and Heidi Klum wore a marble-painted custom Mike Marino gown referencing The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza. Other highlights included multiple nods to Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X by Claire Foy, Lauren Sánchez, and Julianne Moore. Cardi B channeled Hans Bellmer’s uncanny doll proportions in Marc Jacobs, Gracie Abrams echoed Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in custom Chanel, and Rachel Zegler evoked The Execution of Lady Jane Grey in Prabal Gurung. Amy Sherald wore a Thom Browne look based on her own painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), turning herself into both artist and artwork. Kendall Jenner and Yu Chi Lyra Kuo both referenced the Winged Victory of Samothrace in Zac Posen and Jean Paul Gaultier, respectively.
