Staying on trend and on budget: How to find affordable spring fashion for your family <\/a><\/p>\nOther co-chairs of the evening Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams chose more subdued looks. Williams wore a sparkling black off-the-shoulder gown with a dazzling bejeweled neckpiece in homage to a painting of herself done by Robert Pruitt for the National Portrait Gallery. Event sponsor Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos arrived in a form-fitting Schiaparelli gown, which she told Vogue was influenced by John Singer Sargent\u2019s 1884 painting \u201cMadame X.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some guests took the theme to another level, taking hours to transform into works of art. TikTok followers watched along as Jessica Kayll, who designs colorful silk robes, finished painting her dress in the days leading up to the gala. Kayll painted her own take on the famous Monet water lily scene right on top her dress for the gala.<\/p>\n
When guests were not wearing art, they were making references to it. Head of Editorial Content for US Vogue Chloe Malle wore an apricot orange Colleen Allen dress inspired by Sir Frederic Leighton\u2019s \u201cFlaming June\u201d painting. Actor and author Lena Dunham collaborated with Valentino designer Alessandro Michele for her red feathered dress to depict his interpretation of \u201cJudith Slaying Holofernes.\u201d As a child, Dunham told Vogue, she would visit the Met museum on Sundays and admire the paintings in the renaissance section.<\/p>\n
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Keke Palmer arrives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Costume Art” exhibition on Monday, May 4, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my favorite painters from that era is Artemisia Gentileschi, who was one of the only women painting professionally in that moment,\u201d she told Vogue. \u201cSo I sent some of the images to Alessandro, and because he\u2019s a genius instead of dressing me like her, he said, \u2018You are actually the blood spatter as … Judith cuts the neck off a man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Stars also celebrated the dress code with their accessories. Actor and fashion muse Gwendoline Christie playfully covered her face on the carpet with a mask of her own face while pop star Katy Perry opened and closed her fencing-like mask on the carpet to smile at the cameras.<\/p>\n
Unlike last year\u2019s blue carpet, this year\u2019s carpet appeared intentionally forgotten by time with grass creeping up the steps. The carpet featured patches of overgrown grass peeking out from the stone steps with manicured shrubs lining the side railing and white wisteria dangling from the roof. Potted purple flowers stood at the entrance of the carpet in large terra-cotta planters.<\/p>\n
Past Gala dress codes have honored designers and pulled from literature. Last year, the art of tailoring was center stage with the dress code \u201cTailored for you.\u201d The high-profile event raises money for the Met’s Costume Institute, and each year the dress code for the gala takes cues from the Costume Institute\u2019s spring exhibition.<\/p>\n
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Beyonc\u00e9, left, and Blue Ivy Carter arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Costume Art” exhibition on Monday, May 4, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n
On display this Spring, the \u201cCostume Art\u201d exhibit will \u201cexamine the centrality of the dressed body.\u201d<\/p>\n
The relationship between fashion and art has not always been embraced. Art historian and author Nancy Hall-Duncan writes in her book, \u201cArt X Fashion: Fashion Inspired by Art\u201d that in the 19th century, art was perceived as classical and fashion was frivolous.<\/p>\n
When Yves Saint Laurent held the Met\u2019s first fashion exhibit in 1983, the exhibit was met with heavy criticism. Since then, the museum has held countless fashion exhibits throughout the years with museums around the world following suit. The Louvre put on its first fashion exhibition \u201cLouvre couture\u201d last year.<\/p>\n
The dress code set by Wintour and the Met’s Costume Institute curator, Andrew Bolton, is the final seal of approval that fashion is art, Hall-Duncan told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t that a giant step?\u201d she said. \u201cIt will indeed change perceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n
How to watch the Met Gala carpet and celebrity looks<\/p>\n
Didn’t snag one of the pricey tickets or a spot on the ultra-exclusive guestlist?<\/p>\n
The red carpet spectacle is available for all to watch online with the Vogue livestream. Ashley Graham, La La Anthony and Cara Delevingne will be hosting the livestream starting at 6 p.m. with Emma Chamberlain interviewing guests throughout the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Met Gala guests from Vogue red carpet correspondent Emma Chamberlain to professional tennis player Naomi Osaka did not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-17258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-osaka","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-osaka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","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=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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