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Met Gala 2026 red carpet: the best looks in pictures

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Event chairs Nicole Kidman, Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour have guests dress to the theme ‘Fashion is art’ at the event controversially funded by new honorary chairs Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos

Beyoncé sweeps in with a feathered train that takes five people to carry, and occupies a full tier of the Met’s steps. The cloak, and the crystal-encrusted skeleton gown beneath it, are designed by longtime collaborator Olivier Rousteing. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

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A woman in a silver embellished cocoon-like gown stands next to a man in a pink robe over a tuxedo — Rihanna and A$AP Rocky arrive fashionably late, as is often the case with their Met Gala appearances. She is wearing a custom metallic gown by Maison Margiela’s Glenn Martens, and he is wrapped in a baby-pink smoking robe.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman in a colourful dress with long train stands on staircase — Content creator Emma Chamberlain is the first to step on to the green carpet, in a custom watercolour Mugler gown that looks as though it’s melting into the ground. The dress is inspired by the maison’s 1997 La Chimère ensemble.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman wears a lace fishnet dress that is stuffed with colourful material — In what some online are describing as an ‘intestine dress’, Cardi B shows up in a sheer lace Marc Jacobs dress with exaggerated padding on the shoulders, hips and train. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in cream gown with nude bodice puts hand on hip — Kylie Jenner has lost her eyebrows and gained a prominent pair of sculpted nipples in a surreal Schiaparelli gown with a pearl-encrusted train.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman dressed in special effects to look like a marble statue — Heidi Klum understands the assignment, appearing as a living statue in a custom foam and latex gown by Mike Marino.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman in a white gown with a mask resembling those worn by fencers — That’s Katy Perry underneath a mask. The internet is describing her Stella McCartney look as ‘giving fencing astronaut’. Let the memes begin.Photograph: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
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A woman in a royal blue dress with a gold bodice looks to side — Hailey Bieber’s bodice is 24-carat gold. The look is a nod to Yves Saint Laurent’s 1969 couture collection in which the designer teamed up with the French sculptor Claude Lalanne to create two moulded gold bodices.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a structural orange corset — Not one to be outdone, Kim Kardashian’s collaboration with artist Allen Jones and self-described ‘body-based designer/artisan duo’ Whitaker Malem, a cyborg-style breastplate, makes those worn by Hailey Bieber and Kardashian’s sister Kylie Jenner look like trackies.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman stands in sheer grey dress with flame details — Model Gigi Hadid, in Miu Miu, was inspired by the brand’s archives. She told Vogue the idea was to turn her body into a canvas. Plus: ‘It’s sexy.’Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman in black dress with long train stands at bottom of staircase and looks to the side — Model and actor Cara Delevingne, who is presenting from the event, wears a gothy but classy Ralph Lauren dress with a low back.Photograph: Leonardo Muñoz/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman in an all-black outfit, with six women beside her holding material that originates from her headpiece. — A ship as a hat and six ladies-in-waiting, Madonna is an art performance in and of herself in this Saint Laurent outfit. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman in blue dress structured dress stands at the top of a staircase — Lauren Sánchez Bezos, whose sizable donation and honorary chair position have made this the most controversial Met Gala in years, wears a painting-inspired gown in fitting with the theme ‘fashion is art’. Specifically, one by Schiaparelli designer Daniel Roseberry that is a homage to Madame X, the John Singer Sargent painting of the socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau from 1884.Photograph: Kevin Mazur/MG26/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a black gown with a strap slipping off her shoulder and a black textured shawl drapping from her arms — Sanchez Bezos is not the only one to reference John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. Julianne Moore, in Bottega Veneta, is also drawing from the portrait, with the strap slipping off her shoulder. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman walks up the stairs with a dress made of film reels — Ready for a tongue twister? Sabrina Carpenter is wearing a Dior dress made of film, from the film Sabrina.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman smiles in a black beaded dress with a large elaborate necklace — Event co-chair Venus Williams keeps her black dress simple to let her necklace shine. Made by Swarovski, the elaborate jewellery recreates one worn in a portrait of the athlete painted by Robert Pruitt in 2022. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in red sequin gown smiles at bottom of a staircase — Event chair Nicole Kidman, who has been on a Chanel contract for more than 20 years, wears a sequinned blood-red gown with puffs of feathers on its peplum and cuffs.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A woman in a beige dress stands on a staircase with her hands by her hips — Model Ashley Graham, who is also presenting tonight, wears a sandy, sheer dress from the Greek designer Dimitra Petsa of Di Petsa. Vogue says she had to be sewn into it.Photograph: Leonardo Muñoz/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman on staircase wears a black partly sheer gown with a resin flower on the bodice — Charli xcx in a strapless black gown by Saint Laurent with a resin flower stem blossoming across the bodice – a reference to Yves Saint Laurent’s spring/summer 1988 collection that paid tribute to Vincent van Gogh.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman steps on staircase in a nude-coloured silicone dress and high heels — Rapper Doja Cat’s Saint Laurent gown is an unusual combination of goddess draping and shiny silicone.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman wears a long white cape with a grand palette hat that cascades red petals — Tennis pro Naomi Osaka wears a Robert Wun ensemble with a grand, palette-shaped hat by London milliner Awon Golding. This is the second time the athlete has had a moment in Wun’s designs this year, after wearing a jellyfish-inspired gown at the opening night of the Australian Open. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A man in a brown studded leather outfit tilts his leather cap — Luke Evans, who is starring as Frank-N-Furter in a Broadway restaging of Rocky Horror, has gone full Tom of Finland in a studded leather cop costume designed by Alejandro Gómez Palomo.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman smiles in black sunglasses and teal dress with coordinating feathered cape — Anna Wintour, the global chief content officer of Condé Nast and the woman behind the gala, wears an eau de nil feathered cape and a butterfly wing-patterned gown from Chanel.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A person poses with a feather hat and beaded black gown — Singer Sam Smith looks like a deco-era Georges Lepape fashion illustration come to life in a double feathered headdress and glittering black opera cloak, designed by their partner, Christian Cowan.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A woman on staircase wears a heavily feathered red gown — Lena Dunham is as red as her new memoir has been read in an explosively feathered gown. She says she’s the blood splatter in Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Judith Beheading Holofernes. She’s wearing custom Valentino by Alessandro Michele.Photograph: John Salangsang/BEI/Shutterstock
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A woman on staircase in lavender gown with a large bow on one shoulder — Chase Sui Wonders, The Studio actor who is on this year’s host committee, wears a light lavender McQueen gown with a large bow sculpted to look as though it’s blowing in the breeze.Photograph: Leonardo Muñoz/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman in a red tulle dress and feathers on her head holds up a mask replicating her face — Gwendoline Christie’s Met Gala look, made by her partner, the designer Giles Deacon, was inspired by no fewer than three artists: John Singer Sargent, the surrealist photographer Madame Yevonde and the 70s poet and photographer Ira Cohen. If that wasn’t enough, the mask of her face that Christie is carrying was made by an actual artist, Turner prize-winner Gillian Wearing.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman on staircase wearing a black lace gown — Zoë Kravitz is chairing this year’s host committee with Saint Laurent designer Anthony Vaccarello. Vaccarello designed this part Velázquez, part highwaywoman black lace gown.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman with mid-length tulle dress stands on staircase — Host committee member and artist Tschabalala Self wears a dove grey Brandon Blackwood gown with a silhouette reminiscent of 18th-century underwear.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman in a black corseted dress holds up a sheer train — Mannequins of the Irish disability advocate Sinéad Burke are included in the Met’s exhibition. Tonight she is wearing a black corseted Christian Siriano gown with a sheer train that she has been enjoying tossing around dramatically on the steps.Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/MG26/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman holds arms out in a wide floor-length navy gown — Zara isn’t typically known for crinolines but Stevie Nicks’ dress is technically by the high street retailer – albeit through the eyes of John Galliano, who is working with them.Photograph: Kevin Mazur/MG26/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman with a gold suit and gold prosthetic legs poses for a photo — Lauren Wasser, the model and activist with prosthetic limbs known as ‘the girl with the golden legs’ online, goes with the gold theme, in a lamé shorts-suit by Prabal Gurung.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A teenage girl wearing a white gown with sunglasses stands at bottom of stairs — Beyoncé’s and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy is making her Met Gala debut this year in a white bubble dress with that classic teenage girl accessory – sunglasses.Photograph: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
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A woman puts hands in pockets of pink voluminous gown — Amanda Seyfried’s powder pink Prada gown has a skirt made entirely of bows.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A man smiles to the camera wearing a embellished suit, sunglasses and a black bob — Musician Anderson .Paak has lapels for days in an embellished Amiri suit, which he has paired with a bob to rival Anna Wintour’s. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman wearing a sheer white dress with 3D printed arms above her head — Lisa from Blackpink is wearing custom Robert Wun. The extra arms are 3D printed molds of her real arms.Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
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A man wears a mannequin on his back with extra arms — Also sporting extra arms? Broadway producer and ATG Entertainment creative director Jordan Roth in a Robert Wun dress.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman wears two cast hands as a top — Normally celebrities are asked ‘Who are you wearing?’ on the red carpet. For French content creator and podcaster Léna Mahfouf, tonight that question is: ‘Whose hands are you wearing?’Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA
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A woman in dress with cables, wires and moss holds out her arm — Janelle Monáe trades her usual cyborg look for something a little more wild robot this year, with moss growing between the circuitry of her Christian Siriano dress.Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
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A man wearing a spotted halter top poses with hands in pockets — Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie makes his Met Gala debut in a spotted Saint Laurent halter top. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman in a black ornate dress with dove stands next to a man in a black tuxedo — Anne Hathaway is Michael Kors’s date to the Met Gala. Kors says her gown was decorated by his school chum Peter McGough, who hand-painted the goddess of peace on the bustle. ‘Anne is my Grecian urn,’ Kors told Vogue.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a pink tassled dress poses with hand on hip on a staircase — Angela Bassett is a woman in a pink dress, inspired by Girl in Pink Dress by the Harlem Renaissance painter Laura Wheeler Waring. ‘This is a soft nod to the aging body,’ the actor told Vogue. Photograph: John Salangsang/BEI/Shutterstock
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A woman in chartreuse dress poses — Sarah Pidgeon changed fashion for a minute this year in the outfits she wore as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the hit series Love Story. While this outfit is far too bright to be CBK-approved, it’s very fashion – designed by Loewe. Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A woman in black dress with blush tulle skirt and cage-like structure on the back — Olivia Wilde says her Thom Browne look is a ‘nod to abstract body shapes’ as seen in the accompanying exhibition.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman looks over shoulder in a sheer white dress with exposed nude breastplate — It’s hard to tell where the gown ends and the carpet begins with Kendall Jenner’s grey Zac Posen gown, made from deconstructed Gap T-shirts inspired by the Winged Victory of Samothrace.Photograph: Michael Buckner/Penske Media/Getty Images
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A woman in a sequinned red and white dress coat — While her daughters dress as living sculptures, Kris Jenner comes cloaked in them.Photograph: Kevin Mazur/MG26/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a yellow gown with wings and a flower headdress — SZA’s yellow dress is made by Bode’s Emily Adams Bode Aujla, using vintage fabrics sourced from eBay. The designer told Vogue it was inspired by the Wiener Werkstätte – but to us, she looks like a punkish take on Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman walks up the stairs wearing a long mixed pattern dress — Hunter Schafer’s deconstructed Prada tea dress is a nod to Gustav Klimt’s Mäda Primavesi, which sits in the Met’s collection. It’s a bit Cinderella, a bit Parisian flea market and a great look.Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA
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A man in black and white sketched suit and black sunglasses puts hand in pocket — Skepta’s Thom Browne suit has oodles of doodles, including London’s Tower Bridge and a Union Jack, making it look like a talented teen’s school notebook come to life. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a princess-style, pastel-coloured tulle layered dress — Despite claims online she was not invited, Blake Lively arrives as an unapologetic fairy princess in layers and layers of pastel tulle from the Versace archives. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
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A man in cropped leather jacket holds hands at waist — Nicholas Hoult, who shaved his hair to play Lex Luthor, wears a cropped leather jacket with a matching tie.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a blush-pink gown with a deep-V neck and train puts hands on hips — In another deco-inspired design, actor and musician Suki Waterhouse wears Ann Demeulemeester.Photograph: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
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A woman in a fitted primary-coloured sequined gown — Chase Infiniti’s beaded Thom Browne Trompe-l’œil bodice may be one of many but it is also one of the brightest.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman in a black gown and hat/mask with a gold bustier — Yseult, in a sculptural look by the London-based designer Harris Reed, complete with an equally sculptural headpiece. The French singer is one of nine ‘living inspirations’ for mannequins in the accompanying exhibition’s ‘Corpulent Body’ section.Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
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A man in a blue and back outfit with heavy eye makeup poses with hands on hips — Wearing baby blue and black Balenciaga with dramatic eye makeup inspired by the 2010 film Black Swan, Hudson Williams makes his Met Gala debut.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman tosses hem of tulle brown gown into the air — Former American Ballet Theatre principal Misty Copeland’s two-piece Michael Kors ensemble is a little bit tutu without the frou frou.Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman in a burgundy dress and turban — With bare but painted feet, Doechii’s strategically placed fabric and headpiece give the feel of Isadora Duncan meets mermaid.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a voluminous grey dress with a dollar bill across her face as a mask — Sarah Paulson is blinded by money in a ghostly grey gown by Matières Fécales. Is this a subtle form of protest?Photograph: David Fisher/Shutterstock
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A woman with a jewelled top and blue silk skirt — Stay out of Tyla’s splash zone, she has jewels dripping down her arms and wrapped around her waist in a plunging Valentino gown. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
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A woman in a wheelchair wearing a black dress — Model and musician Aariana Rose Philip, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, modelled for the exhibition as one of its new mannequins. On a red carpet live stream, Philip said her involvement made her ‘feel really held and recognised’. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman dances with silver tassles head to toe — One tassel after another, Teyana Taylor is covered head to toe in a silver custom Tom Ford gown by Haider Ackermann. The fringing is reminiscent of sound suits by Nick Cave (the US artist, not the Australian musician).Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A man poses in embellished nude top — Actor Jeremy Pope wears an archival Vivienne Westwood ensemble from the designer’s menswear debut in 1996. Westwood would often draw inspiration from art galleries, so it’s a good fit for the theme.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman poses with a lace dress and diamond pearls strings around her neck — Emily Blunt’s tasselled Ashi Studio two-piece is complemented by half a million dollars worth of pearl necklace from Japanese jeweller Mikimoto.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman with a large tulle dress and toy doll that looks like her — Singer María Zardoya’s pink chiffon Alexander McQueen gown is gently ghostly – but it’s the tiny doll version of herself that makes her look truly haunted.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman with a corset and ornate material covering her top — Actor Odessa A’zion has a flower fetish in a no pants, no top look from Valentino. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
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A man poses on the stairs with a gold cummerbund — Actor Joe Alwyn can’t stop thinking about the Roman empire in a grey and gold Valentino ensemble. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A young man with prosthetic makeup to make him look older — Bad Bunny took a little longer than usual to get ready for this year’s Met. ‘53 years,’ he told Vogue.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman wearing a silver dress with golden sandals — Artemis incarnate, Serena Williams wears a silver Marc Jacobs asymmetric gown to show off her thigh-high golden sandals. All she’s missing is the bow and arrows.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman wears a red mullet dress with layers of fabric in the front — Olympic figure skating star Alysa Liu looks like a Toulouse-Lautrec cancan dancer in a blood-red custom Louis Vuitton gown. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman wears a red dress with a long train and diamond necklace — Also channelling Toulouse-Lautrec is Keke Palmer, whose chunky collar necklace is studded with 1,200 diamonds.Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
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A woman wearing a black lace dress — Of course, the inspiration behind Cher’s look is Cher! The singer’s leather corseted dress by Burberry is based on the OG naked Bob Mackie dress she wore to the Met in 1974.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A woman wears a blue dress with a long paint train and blue fingertips — Tessa Thompson’s custom Isha Ambani gown is Yves Klein blue right down to her fingertips, which have been painted for the occasion.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman wears a black dress with embroidered tulle flowers — The three-dimensional flowers embroidered on Naomi Watts’ Dior gown look like a Jan van Huysum still life come to life.Photograph: Lexie Moreland/WWD/Getty Images
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A man wears jeans and a white button-up shirt, with a black coat — Effortlessly cool or a hot mess? We await the internet’s ruling. Singer Troye Sivan is wearing full Prada.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A man in a black and blue decorated suit and a woman in a white and blue gown — Google founder Sergey Brin and his partner Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto wear pins depicting Iran’s lion and sun flag.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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A woman in a white coat splattered with black and a black hat — KPop Demon Hunter Audrey Nuna’s splattered floor-length coat and Carmen Sandiego-style hat are another win for Robert Wun.Photograph: Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
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A woman in a pale gold sari wearing diamonds and emeralds — Isha Ambani, the executive director of India’s largest retailer, wears a sari embellished with her mother’s diamonds. Photograph: Lexie Moreland/WWD/Getty Images
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A woman in a black leather dress that’s short at the front and long at the back — Charlotte Gainsbourg makes a case for sheer nylons in a black leather mullet-cut gown by Saint Laurent.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman in a long dark pink gown featuring white and peach squares — Carey Mulligan in a custom Prada gown, with a rectangular print lifted from the brand’s spring/summer 1998 collection.Photograph: Theo Wargo/FilmMagic
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A man in a brightly coloured check top — Check please. Colman Domingo in a Harlequin quilted Valentino ensemble by Alessandro Michele.Photograph: Cindy Ord/MG26/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue
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A woman in a white gown with wings — Angel investor? Tech entrepreneur Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo wears Jean Paul Gaultier.Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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A woman in a dress covered in bubbles — Olympic skier Eileen Gu’s Iris van Herpen gown is blowing real bubbles across the green carpet.Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
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A woman wears a colourful, large-spotted dress as she blows a chewing gum bubble — Also blowing bubbles? Rachel Sennott in a colour-blocked Marc Jacobs ensemble.Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images
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A woman in a sheer black lace gown — Kate Moss, long a fan of a see-through dress, shows her expertise once again, in a floor-length black lace dress with a matching teddy beneath.Photograph: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
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A woman in a black gown with pink flowers stitched over her pregnant belly — Adut Akech is in her final trimester, which is also the inspiration for the pink flowers studding her black Thom Browne gown.Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
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A woman in a white dress with lilac flowers in her hair — Model Karlie Kloss wears a twisted Dior couture gown by Jonathan Anderson, with flowers in her slicked-back hair.Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA
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A man in a black jacket and black leather trousers — Adrien Brody is black tie up top, party on the bottom in a tuxedo jacket with leather pants from Dior.Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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