Fashion is art, but not every canvas deserves a frame.
A-listers, Hollywood elites, and billionaires climbed the grand staircase of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum on Monday evening for the Met Gala, dressed in elaborate and eyebrow-raising interpretations of this year’s theme, “Costume Art.”
A number of celebrities declined invitations to this year’s event amid backlash about its sponsorship by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
Protests against the ultra-wealthy couple—who are serving as honorary chairs of the gala—have swept through New York, with slogans such as “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” projected onto the Bezoses’$80 million penthousenear Madison Square Park.
The stars who did show up for the glitzy gala arrived in looks inspired by the dress code “Fashion is Art,” a theme whose open-endedness yielded some baffling misfires.
Here are the 2026 Met Gala looks that proved not all art belongs on the red carpet.
TheGirlsstar was nearly swallowed by a dense cluster of red feathers scrunched around her neck, contrasting with featherless sections that revealed a sparkle-encrusted red layer underneath.
Flapping open a metallic visor to reveal her face, the pop singer looked like she was still cosplaying as an astronaut more than a year after her11-minutespace trip with Lauren Sánchez aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Perhaps it’s time to come back down to Earth.
The actor and singer hit the theme, but little else landed. The suit looked stiff and cheap, the trousers sat awkwardly high above the ankle, and the cotton-candy palette would make any painter wince.
The Grammy-winning artist is celebrated for pushing fashion boundaries and looking good doing it, which makes it all the more puzzling that she would trade her signature flair for what resembled a plastic bag.
Source: Drudge Report
