The most memorable looks from the 2026 Met Gala

Nbcwashington · May 04, 2026 · 1058 words · By NBC Staff

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What to know about The most memorable looks from the 2026 Met Gala

The theme of this year's Met Gala is 'Costume Art ', which pairs art objects with garments to highlight the connection between fashion and art through the centuries.

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What happened

The theme of this year's Met Gala is 'Costume Art ', which pairs art objects with garments to highlight the connection between fashion and art through the centuries.

Why it matters

The dress code 'Fashion is Art' invites 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', according to The Met .

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Here are some of the most memorable looks from the night.

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Claim 1: “Anderson .Paak attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 2: “Bad Bunny attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 3: “Cher attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 4: “Lena Dunham attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala 2026 in New York on May 4, 2026.”

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Claim 5: “Venus Williams attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky body in the Solar Syste…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shop VENUS for the latest women's swim and clothing. Online fashion store for swimwear & apparel for women sizes 2 - 24.
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Claim 6: “Anne Hathaway attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 7: “(L-R) Felicity Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt attend the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 8: “Connor Storrie attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 9: “Alysa Liu attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 10: “Luke Evans attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 11: “Angel Reese attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 12: “Anna Wintour attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Web search results confirm Anna Wintour's presence at the 2026 Met Gala events on May 4, 2026, specifically mentioning her attendance at the press conference.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dame Anna Wintour (; born 3 November 1949) is a British and American media executive who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 to 2025. Currently, Wintour serves as global chief content officer…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Anna Wintour Costume Center is a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art main building in New York City, United States. It houses the collection of the Costume Institute, a curatorial department of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute on the Museum M…
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Claim 13: “Doja Cat attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Doja Cat was made the subject and namesake of the song "Doja" by British rapper Central Cee, which was released in July 2022 and achieved global success, becoming the most streamed UK rap song on Spot…
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web search NEUTRAL — Born and raised in L.A., Doja Cat made her first upload to Soundcloud in 2013 at just 16-years-old.
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Claim 14: “Charli XCX arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, on May 4, 2026.”

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Claim 15: “Gwendoline Christie attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 16: “Emma Chamberlain arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York City.”

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Multiple web search results confirm Emma Chamberlain attended the 2026 Met Gala on May 4, 2026, in New York City.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emma Frances Chamberlain (born May 22, 2001) is an American influencer, podcaster, businesswoman, and model. She won the 2018 Streamy Award for Breakout Creator. In 2019, Time magazine included her on…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie (born 28 October 1978) is an English actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the Firs…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Patiala Necklace was a necklace designed and made by Cartier in 1928. It was part of the largest single order ever placed with Cartier to date, made in 1925 by the Indian royal Bhupinder Singh, th…
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Claim 17: “The theme of this year's Met Gala is 'Costume Art '”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Hellfire Gala" was initially a 12-part X-Men comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics in June 2021. It is the first storyline featured in the "Reign of X" relaunch after the "X of Swords" stor…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Met Gala is the debut studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Sarah Toscano, released on 3 October 2025 by Warner Music Italy. The album included the single "Amarcord", with which Toscano competed d…
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Claim 18: “Lindsey Vonn attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 19: “Janelle Monáe attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 20: “Beyoncé attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 21: “Jordan Roth attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 22: “Kim Kardashian attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 23: “Maluma attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 24: “Madonna attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 25: “Blake Lively attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 26: “Sam Smith attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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The provided evidence for Sam Smith discusses 'SAM' (Segment Anything Model) in computer vision and AI, not the singer Sam Smith attending the Met Gala.

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web search NEUTRAL — Meta 最近发布了 SAM 的第三代，我们借此机会来学习一下这个系列技术的演进过程。一、什么是 CV 中的「分割」？ SAM 系列主要解决的问题是计算机视觉中的「分割」（Segmentation）任务，通俗讲就是 AI 把图片里的物体「抠」出来。图像分割的目标：为图像中的每个像素赋予「属于哪个物体」的标签 ...
https://www.zhihu.com/question/1974780849523274018

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web search NEUTRAL — RSPrompter 主要分享sam在遥感影像数据集上的应用，论文里边考虑做了4个方向的研究，如下图所示：（a）sam-seg：结合sam在遥感数据集上做语义分割，主要是利用sam的vit作为backbone，后边接上mask2former的neck和head,训练遥感数据集。
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web search NEUTRAL — 对于像Segment Anything Model (SAM) 这样的大型视觉模型，虽然其最初的设计目的是为了实现图像分割，但经过适当的微调（fine-tuning），模型也可以应用于图像分类任务。，那么如何将SAM模型微调至适应图像分类任务： 1. 预处理： • 对于图像分类，首先确保图像数据集已经按照目标类别进行了正确的 ...
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Claim 27: “Heidi Klum attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 28: “Teyana Taylor attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 29: “Katy Perry attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 30: “The dress code 'Fashion is Art' invites 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', according to The Met .”

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Multiple independent web sources (Vanity Fair, The Citizen, and another search result) confirm the dress code for the 2026 Met Gala is 'Fashion is Art'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sarocha Chankimha (Thai: สโรชา จันทร์กิมฮะ; born 8 August 1998), nicknamed Freen (Thai: ฟรีน), is a Thai actress, singer, model, and entrepreneur. She is best known for her lead role as Khun Sam in Ga…
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Claim 31: “SZA attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 32: “Sabrina Carpenter attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 33: “(L-R) Sunday Rose Kidman Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Multiple sources, including Getty Images and other web search results, confirm that Sunday Rose Kidman Urban and Nicole Kidman attended the 2026 Met Gala on May 4, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. Known for her work in blockbusters and independent films across many genres, she has consistently ranked amon…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sunday Reed (born Lelda Sunday Baillieu) (15 October 1905 – 15 December 1981) was an Australian patron of the arts. Along with her husband, John Reed, she established what is now the Heide Museum of M…
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Claim 34: “Hudson Williams attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 35: “Donatella Versace attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 36: “Hailey Bieber attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 37: “Eileen Gu attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Claim 38: “Naomi Osaka attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City.”

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Three independent sources (Vogue, MSN, and another web result) confirm Naomi Osaka attended the 2026 Met Gala on May 4, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — Credit: Getty Images Tennis star Naomi Osaka has arrived, and she chose a dramatic look for her turn at the 2026 Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 4) in New York City ...
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web search NEUTRAL — The Gist Naomi Osaka made a dramatic arrival at the 2026 Met Gala on May 4. The tennis legend looked unrecognizable in a sculptural white hat, matching coat dress, and blood red hands.
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