Live Updates: Met Gala 2026 red carpet arrivals and celebrity photos

A senior manner editor astatine Cosmopolitan said celebrities' outfits could alteration vastly arsenic they instrumentality connected their ain interpretations of this year's theme. 

Jessica Neises said immoderate could thin into the "body and fitted silhouettes," meaning bodycon dresses. Some stars could besides pat into the creation side.

"Maybe the garment itself is simply a beauteous portion of creation with embroidery oregon antithetic beading," she said. 

Neises said she thinks determination volition beryllium a batch of colour and vibrancy connected the reddish carpet.

"Tonight is not astir being quiescent with the fashion. It's truly astir being loud. Hopefully, nary plain achromatic suits. We privation extravagance," she said. 

Tennis players Venus Williams is serving arsenic 1 of the co-chairs of the event. She, similar galore different attendees tonight, is leaning into connection jewelry. 

Venus Williams stuns astatine the 2026 Met Gala.  Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images

Nicole Kidman, 1 of tonight's co-chairs of the event, brings on her daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. This is Sunday Rose's archetypal clip attending the Met Gala, portion Nicole is simply a seasoned pro who has attended the lawsuit for implicit 20 years. 

Sunday Rose Kidman Urban and Nicole Kidman look stunning connected the reddish carpet.  Mike Coppola / Getty Images

Chloe Malle replaced Wintour arsenic caput of editorial contented astatine Vogue successful September 2025 astatine the property of 38.

Chloe Malle arrives astatine the Met Gala carpet successful a yellowish gown. Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images

Anna Wintour, present the main contented serviceman for Condé Nast and planetary editorial manager of Vogue, arrives astatine the Met Gala. Wintour is the deciding unit down who gets to be the prestigious event.  

 Anna Wintour attends the 2026 Met Gala successful a greenish feathered number.  Mike Coppola / Getty Images

Cara Delevingne, 1 of the reddish carpet hosts for Vogue, arrives successful a customized Ralph Lauren dress. Delevingne has been a predominant look astatine the Met Gala since her archetypal quality successful 2011. 

Cara Delevingne attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art." Theo Wargo/Getty Images

Singer Beyoncé, Actress Nicole Kidman and tennis subordinate Venus Williams volition co-chair the event alongside Anna Wintour. 

There's besides a big committee chaired by decorator Anthony Vaccarello and filmmaker Zoë Kravitz. 

There are respective celebrities who are besides connected the big committee. It includes musicians Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith and Yseult; dancer Misty Copeland; actors Teyana Taylor, Elizabeth Debicki, Gwendoline Christie and Lena Dunham; WNBA superstar A'ja Wilson; models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser and Lauren Wasser; Vogue exertion Chloe Malle; and creator Anna Weyant.

Model Ashley Graham and influencer Emma Chamberlain volition service arsenic Vogue's red-carpet hosts passim the evening, alongside histrion Cara Delevingne and TV property La La Anthony.

Ashley Graham arrives to the 2026 Met Gala. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Emma Chamberlain wears a stunning portion from decorator Mugler.  Mike Coppola / Getty Images

The Met Gala's formal codification is "Fashion is Art," going hand-in-hand with the "Costume Art" theme.

Organizers accidental the amusement volition item the transportation betwixt covering and the assemblage and the "complex interplay betwixt creator representations of the assemblage and manner arsenic an embodied creation form."  

The lawsuit is held connected the archetypal Monday successful May each twelvemonth astatine the depository successful New York City. 

Arrivals officially start astatine 5:30 p.m., but galore stars are known to amusement up late.   

Singer Rihanna showed up astir 10 p.m. past year, conscionable aft rapper and Bronx autochthonal Cardi B and histrion Halle Berry. The archetypal to get past twelvemonth was singer-songwriter and histrion Teyana Taylor a small aft 5 p.m. 

Members of the property cheque successful hours earlier to enactment up on The Met's iconic steps and ticker the stars arrive.

The yearly gala is based connected the outpouring accumulation astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.   

"Costume Art" strives to marque the transportation betwixt bodies and the apparel they wear, according to the exhibit's curator.   

"Costume Art volition contiguous a dynamic and scholarly speech betwixt garments from The Costume Institute and an array of artworks from crossed The Met's collection, elevating cosmopolitan and timeless themes portion bringing guardant caller ideas and ways of seeing," said Max Hollein, CEO of The Met.