{"id":17106,"date":"2026-05-05T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/17106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:33:24","slug":"naomi-osaka-goes-for-the-drama-in-robert-wun-and-awon-golding-hat-at-the-2026-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/17106\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka Goes for the Drama in Robert Wun and Awon Golding Hat at the 2026 Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Naomi Osaka has left her hotel for the Met Gala, in a white and feathered Robert Wun dress with a matching headpiece by London miliner Awon Golding.<\/p>\n

\"TheKristina Bumphrey\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Osaka departing the Mark Hotel.<\/p>\n

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Osaka on the carpet.<\/p>\n

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A full view of her gown.<\/p>\n

Once on the carpet, she took off the coat and hat to reveal a sleeveless red dress underneath.<\/p>\n

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Osaka\u2019s dress underneath her coat.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not her first time working with Wun; at the Australian Open this year, the tennis player worked with the designer for her walk-on outfits<\/a>. \u201cWe were both instantly drawn to his shapes, his textures, the way his work moves. It all lived in the same world we were imagining,\u201d Osaka says, referring to herself and her longtime collaborator Marty Harper. Wun, self-described \u201chuge tennis fan,\u201d was immediately game to work with them. \u201cNaomi and Martin came into it with a great understanding of what my world already looks like,\u201d he says. \u201cAs a fan, I already understood her as an athlete, but being able to share this creative moment has been incredibly special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hard Court founder and writer Jessica Schiffer reported that Osaka is attending ahead of traveling to Rome, Italy for the Rome Open, which begins tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5. \u201cSeeing a lot of worried posts about Naomi and Rome so here\u2019s a fun fact to keep in mind\u2014many celebs (probably half!) literally just show up to the Met to do the red carpet and then immediately fly out, often on a private jet,\u201d Schiffer posted on X<\/a>. \u201cWhile I have no intel on that aspect of her plans, I\u2019d say it\u2019s highly likely that\u2019s what she’s going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tonight is Osaka\u2019s second time attending the Met Gala; as the event falls in the middle of clay court season, it\u2019s rare for in-season players to attend. She was a co-chair at the 2021 edition of the Met Gala, which was held in September.<\/p>\n

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Co-chair Naomi Osaka attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Osaka told Town & Country<\/a> that she\u2019s working on no longer being solely defined by her identity and accomplishments as an athlete, and is beginning to accept \u201cwho I am as a person.\u201d She explained, \u201cI\u2019ve been playing tennis since I was a kid, so I\u2019ve just always had my identity within myself of being a tennis player. Then becoming a mom and being able to do so many different things, I realized that I\u2019m not defined by just one word. It\u2019s okay to be curious and it\u2019s okay to start learning new things no matter how old you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cMy off-court style, it evolves a lot. I try not to do the same thing too many times, but also I\u2019m very comfortable in baggy clothes, so I find myself gravitating towards that a lot. But I love experimenting. I love different textures, and I think in my on court looks, you can kind of see that too more. I find that I\u2019m being allowed to express myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read Naomi Osaka has left her hotel for the Met Gala, in a white and feathered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13586,13597,316,13595,318,12818,8,317,85,7664,13594,13596],"class_list":{"0":"post-17106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-osaka","8":"tag-collection-met-gala-2026","9":"tag-collection-tennis-news","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-289980df-fda5-44a9-aef1-ec0c7d79a609","12":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","13":"tag-issyndicated-false","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-locale-us","16":"tag-osaka","17":"tag-read_time-3","18":"tag-shorttitle-naomi-osaka-goes-for-the-drama-at-the-met-gala","19":"tag-subsection-sporting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}