Met Gala 2026: The Best Looks, The Worst Disasters — And The “Oops” Moments Everyone’s Talking About

The celebrities have all walked up the steps at the 2026 Met Gala, and left us with much to discuss.

As they do every year, some of the biggest names in film, fashion and music attended the exclusive Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, and interpreted the dress code in unique and unforgettable ways. This year, the Met’s exhibit “Costume Art” (and the evening’s dress code, “Fashion as Art”) was the jumping-off point for celebrity ensembles that were artistic, interesting, carefully considered and (in some cases) more than a little creepy.

From the best family photo on the red carpet to the worst thing we’re going to see when we close our eyes tonight, read on for the Best, Worst and Most “Oops” outfits, accessories and overall trends from this year’s Met Gala red carpet.

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Oops, Were There Other People Coming?

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Beyoncé wasn’t the last to arrive on the Met Gala steps, but don’t tell that to the poor celebrities who had to follow in her massively-trained wake as photographers screamed for her to stop for just one more photo.

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Worst Time to Obstruct Your Vision

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You couldn’t pay us enough to don some eye-blocking accessories just before ascending a notoriously steep set of stairs in front of hundreds of cameras, but that’s what separates us from the people (like Katy Perry, Sarah Paulson, Luke Evans and Rachel Zegler) who got a ticket to the event this year.

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Best Reason to Break the Rules a Bit

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Technically, people under 18 aren’t invited to the Costume Institute Gala. But for co-chair Nicole Kidman (and co-chair Beyoncé!), when your daughter is a fashionista in her own right, rules were made to be broken.

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Breast — Oops, We Mean Best

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Of course, with an exhibit that is all about how the human body is a vessel for fashion, we expected to see quite a few naked interpretations of the theme. Some of the artsiest? Chase Infiniti’s Thom Browne, Doja Cat’s Saint Laurent and Hailey Bieber’s Saint Laurent.

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Best Just for Being Herself

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Why do we feel like Stevie Nicks already had this in her closet?

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Best Reunion After No Time Apart

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Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt (with her sister and his wife, Felicity Blunt) haven’t spent nearly enough time together on their Devil Wears Prada 2 world tour or their joint Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. They needed to put on black tie and hit an event reminiscent of the one in their blockbuster movie two days later.

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Oops, Did They Not See Each Other Before They Left the House?

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We’re envisioning that Spider-Man meme between Kim Kardashian and her sisters Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner: “Wait, you’re wearing the sculpted boob dress? I thought I was!”

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Best Princess of Genovia Moment

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On a night when so many go high-concept, we can appreciate a look that’s just plain pretty — like Anne Hathaway’s Michael Kors gown, handpainted by artist Peter McGough and worn with some spectacular Bulgari jewelry. Just add a tiara and you’ve got Princess Diaries 3 material.

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Best Modern Art Interpretation

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Many stars were inspired by the sculptures and paintings inside the walls of the Met, but Sabrina Carpenter didn’t forget that cinema is an art form too — and paid tribute by donning a Dior gown by Jonathan Anderson created of the film strips for the 1954 Audrey Hepburn classic Sabrina.

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Biggest Time Commitment

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Ciara’s tribute to Nefertiti included a painstakingly gilded spiked coif, which she admitted took quite some time to achieve. Worth it for this photo, to be honest.

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Best Time to Try It

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If you’re ever going to have fun with makeup, the Met Gala is the place to do it, so we appreciate the risks taken here by Hudson Williams (going for a “White Swan/Black Swan” thing, he said), Madonna and Angela Bassett — even if the result is a little consumption-adjacent.

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Best Night for Cool Couples

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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky (as well as these other celebrity duos) prove that all you need to keep the spark alive is to be extremely hot, get invited to very exclusive events and then dress better than anyone else there. How hard can that be?

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The Annual Supermodel Award for Lowest Commitment to the Theme

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Kate Upton has won it. Karlie Kloss has won it. And now it is our honor to bestow upon Kate Moss the annual prize for the supermodel who relied solely on her face card (rather than a fabulously interpretive outfit) to deliver her Met Gala moment.

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Worst Bunny

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He’s always Bad Bunny, but tonight, he aged himself up with extremely realistic prosthetics to, as Vogue suggests, reflect the idea of the aging body and its relationship to art. Bring back Benito! (Oh, who are we kidding. He’s still hot.)

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Worst Night to Take Off Your Makeup Before Bed

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The idea of the human body as a fashion piece also lent itself to a lot of painted-on body art that we imagine Paloma Elsesser, A’ja Wilson, Anok Yai and Ashley Graham will be scrubbing off with makeup wipes for an extended period of time tonight.

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Best Night for a Good Holiday Card Photo

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We bet Beyoncé’s going to use this one to kick off the seven page double-sided newsletter she mails out to friends and family at Christmas.

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Worst Sleep Paralysis Demons

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When we heard the dress code, we imagined a lot of naked dresses. We never imagined things would get quite so scary. But Jordan Roth, Heidi Klum and Gwendoline Christie delivered very imaginative and labor-intensive takes on the theme, which we both appreciated for the work that went into them and will probably be haunted by for some time to come.