Mannequin and influencer Emma Chamberlain attends the 2026 Met Gala on Monday in New York Metropolis.
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On Monday evening, extravagantly dressed celebrities and designers made their grand ascent up the Met Gala’s staircase, marking the beginning of style’s greatest evening and elevating cash for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute.
Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour are the 2026 Gala co-chairs. Lauren Sánchez Bezos is an honorary co-chair.
“Vogue is Artwork” is the costume code for this 12 months’s Gala, and attendees are anticipated to comply with it whereas viewing “Costume Artwork,” the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition.
“Costume Artwork” opens to the general public on Might 10 within the Met’s new Condé Nast gallery areas. It options century-spanning fashions on numerous physique sorts, juxtaposed with artwork objects from the Met’s collections. Curator in Cost Andrew Bolton says the exhibition seeks to attach “creative representations of the physique with style as an embodied artwork type.”
Listed below are a few of the purple carpet outfits from the evening:
Janelle Monáe attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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Joshua Henry performs with backup dancers.
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Nicole Kidman (left), Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Anna Wintour attend the 2026 Met Gala.
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Co-chair Venus Williams arrives together with her husband Andrea Preti.
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Mannequin Aariana Rose Philip attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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Mannequin Ashley Graham attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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Actor Connor Storrie attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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Musician Jon Batiste attend the 2026 Met Gala. His spouse, creator Suleika Jaouad is seen on the left.
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Author and activist Sinéad Burke attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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Sam Smith attends the 2026 Met Gala.
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