Happy Met Gala Monday to all who celebrate! We're IRL at The Mark Hotel to get the first glimpse at the attendees as they head for the red carpet. Be sure to catch all of the candid moments we capture on Who What Wear's Instagram.
Posted up on the Upper East Side at The Carlyle and The Surrey!
Erin, our associate director of fashion news, is reporting live from the Met Gala red carpet—or should we say cobblestone carpet?
Here we go! Emma Chamberlain is one of the first to step onto the red carpet. She's wearing custom Mugler and looks like an oil painting personified, which is right in step with the Fashion Is Art theme.
Ashley Graham has arrived and is wearing a custom Di Petsa wet-look gown similar to one featured in The Met's Costume Art exhibition that my colleague Eliza spotted while previewing it this morning.
Charli XCX just exited The Carlyle and is en route to the steps of The Met.
Cochair Nicole Kidman just stepped onto the red carpet (wearing Chanel, of course) with her daughter Sunday Rose Kidman Urban in Dior.
Anna has arrived. Like Nicole Kidman, she's wearing Chanel. I'm going to need a minute to stare at her feathered cape. Feathers have already become a signature of Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel, and have been featured prominently in his collections for the fashion house thus far. Fun fact: She wore a pink version of this look that was almost identical to the Met Gala in 2019.
My colleague Anna just posted Who What Wear's Met Gala 2026 red carpet roundup featuring the best looks of the night. Be sure to follow along as she updates it throughout the evening. Lots to come!
Who What Wear's roundup of the best beauty looks of the night is also live! Our editor Alyssa will leave no stone unturned, so be sure to keep checking it for updates. There are going to be plenty of jaw-dropping beauty moments on the red carpet—trust me.
Connor Storrie (and his Saint Laurent polka-dot scarf) just stepped out of The Carlyle and is on his way to make his Met Gala red carpet debut.
Not sure we'll be getting a glimpse of Zoë Kravitz's engagement ring on the red carpet tonight. She's really using the pockets of her peplumed lace Saint Laurent F/W 26 dress to their fullest.
One of the most iconic moments of Met Gala night in 2024 was when Doja Cat stepped out of The Mark in a bath towel. Well, Hudson Williams just re-created that moment. We applaud you, Hudson.
2026's breakout star has arrived! Sarah Pidgeon is wearing Loewe for her Met Gala debut.
Few red carpets produce moments such as this. Sarah Pidgeon's Love Story costar Dree Hemingway just arrived wearing Valentino Haute Couture S/S 26, designed by Alessandro Michele.
Gigi is here, and she's wearing custom Miu Miu! Could this be a sign that the naked dress is back?
Spotted leaving The Surrey en route to The Met: golden girl Hailey Bieber.
Another Met Gala debut! Figure skating star (and new Louis Vuitton ambassador) Alysa Liu just arrived wearing a custom creation by the fashion house. "Her stylist Katie Qian told Up Next, "Our LV Look is a 'dissected' dress—it's meant to recall a cross-section of the human body or a cell. The ruffles have an anatomical shape, almost like muscle striation, veins, the interior of a cell. At the same time it also shows the 'guts' and the interior structure of a dress, showcasing the creation of clothing as an art form."
Our latest cover star, Carey Mulligan, just arrived, wearing vintage Prada from the S/S 98 collection. The abstract print on the sleek column dress calls to mind a piece of modern art.
Wearing deconstructed custom Schiaparelli Haute Couture, Kylie Jenner is sure to be on every list of the attendees who nailed the theme, "inviting guests to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history." The inspiration was the iconic Ancient Greek sculpture Venus de Milo.
The wait is over! Sabrina Carpenter just stepped on the hand-painted carpet wearing custom Christian Dior. You'll want to zoom in on this one—her dress is made of film strips.
Margot Robbie has arrived, and the Chanel ambassador is fittingly wearing Chanel. Her dress took 761 hours to create and has 1080 embroidered elements. That fringed train will surely go down in Met Gala history.
I had a hunch you'd want to see Hailey Bieber's full look. She's wearing custom Saint Laurent. Our team is getting superhero vibes.
Gracie Abrams is wearing a stunning brocade Chanel creation inspired by Klimt's most famous painting, The Kiss. I don't think anyone could've worn this dress better than Gracie.
SZA brought a major dose of drama to the red carpet in custom Bode. Fun fact: Designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla made the dress of fabric that was sourced from eBay, and she shared with Vogue that she looked to Vienna Workshop, a pre-war design collective, for inspiration.
Met Gala mainstay Kendall Jenner is wearing custom GapStudio, designed by Zac Posen. It's one of several Grecian-inspired looks of the night.
Anne Hathaway is wearing a custom, hand-painted Michael Kors Collection dress, designed with the artist Peter McGough. Kors told Vogue, "We used ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats as a starting point." Andy Sachs would be so proud.
If there were Met Gala red carpet awards, this would get the one for hair and makeup. Bad Bunny, wearing custom Zara, looks completely unrecognizable! You can always count on him to not phone it in.
Ladies and gentlemen, Beyoncé, wearing custom Olivier Rousteing. Met Gala cochairs are typically among the first to arrive, but not her. She's on the carpet with Jay-Z and Blue Ivy, making it a family affair.
Ayo Edebiri is looking positively angelic in a white Chanel gown, which gives the illusion of being held up by birds.
In case you missed it, Hunter Schafer, wearing a custom Prada gown which appears to be inspired by Gustav Klimt’s portrait Mäda Primavesi, is one of our editors' favorite looks of the night.
Blake Lively made a return to the Met Gala carpet tonight wearing a dramatic sherbet-hued Versace gown with a fitted bodice and full skirt. It's a signature look for her.
ICYMI, Chase Infiniti is another editor favorite of the night in a painterly Thom Browne formfitting dress.
You're not going to find another dress that moves like Teyana Taylor's, which is custom Tom Ford by Haider Ackermann. Here she is on the carpet with the designer.
The always fashionably late Rihanna is on her way from The Carlyle to The Met! Here's a first look.
The queen and king of the Met Gala have officially shut down the red carpet. Rihanna is wearing custom Maison Margiela drawing upon its Artisanal 2025 collection, and A$AP Rocky is wearing Chanel.
