2026 Met Gala: Beyoncé and Rihanna walk the red carpet

Summary

Beyoncé tells the BBC it feels great to be back at fashion's biggest night alongside her daughter and husband at the Met Gala in New York
It's the singer's first appearance at the gala in a decade, where she is co-chair alongside Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman and Anna Wintour
Meanwhile, pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells the BBC's Nada Tawfik that her dress is made from strips of film from the Audrey Hepburn classic Sabrina
Anne Hathaway and some of The Devil Wears Prada 2 cast get huge cheers from onlookers as they arrive
Heidi Klum's ultra-realistic statue outfit draws looks on the carpet, and Rihanna arrives just as it looked like things were finished
The dress code for this year's fundraiser is "Fashion is Art", celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring costume exhibition
The gala is not without controversy, with activists protesting billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's involvement as a sponsor

Live Reporting

Edited by Brandon Livesay and Oliver O'Connell, with Nada Tawfik and Pratiksha Ghildial at the Met Gala

Kim Kardashian brightens the scenepublished at 01:18 BST 5 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

Kim Kardashian has historically walked the Met Gala red carpet in big name designers, such as Versace, Givenchy and Thierry Mugler.
At first glance, her bronze sculpted body armour tonight indicated that she might have gone with Mugler again, a house famous for their armoured corsets.
However, she took to social media to announce that British design duo Whitaker Malem made her look.
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Doechii bares her solespublished at 01:15 BST 5 May

Rapper Doechii, wearing Marc Jacobs, is walking the red carpet... barefoot.
She tells Vogue she wanted something that "felt very human and vulnerable and grounding".
She also jokes that the Met, unlike the streets of New York City, is very clean.
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Cher isn't loving Bezospublished at 01:14 BST 5 May
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the Met Gala

Cher just came by us briefly, and knowing that she speaks her mind, I asked her what she made of the controversy surrounding Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos sponsoring the Met Gala.
She gave me a look and said, “I’m not a fan.”
Jeff Bezos hasn’t walked the carpet yet tonight, while his wife arrived solo earlier.
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There's royalty in the room tonightpublished at 01:13 BST 5 May

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Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur (left), Prabal Gurung, and Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur
Royalty from the Indian city of Jaipur are gracing the Met Gala carpet tonight.
Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the king of Jaipur, is on the carpet with his sister, Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur.
They tell Vogue that it's their first Met Gala, and they're excited to see what goes on away from the cameras. They're dressed by iconic Nepalese American designer Prabal Gurung.

Venus Williams feels "like dancing inside"published at 01:12 BST 5 May

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'I've arrived!' - Venus Williams tells the BBC what it's like to be Met Gala co-chair
Met Gala co-chair Venus Williams tells the BBC's Nada Tawfik that she never thought she'd get here in life.
"That's how I feel, like I'm like dancing inside," she said.
Asked about protests surrounding Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' role as the gala's honorary chair, Williams says she has no complaints about tonight.
Model Anok Yai makes teardrops part of the outfitpublished at 01:09 BST 5 May

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Singers take centre stagepublished at 01:06 BST 5 May

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Jisoo, a member of the Kpop girl group Blackpink
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Australian singer Troye Sivan
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American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams
Kate Moss pairs a black dress with a red lippublished at 01:03 BST 5 May

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British supermodel Kate Moss

Who went through whose closet?published at 01:02 BST 5 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

Kylie Jenner showed up earlier in the evening in Schiaparelli, and shortly thereafter her older sister Kendall Jenner arrived in a very similar nude dress, this time by Zac Posen for GAP.
This didn’t escape the attention of reporters on the red carpet, asking Kendall if the two got ready together.
Kendall Jenner also opts for a sculptured lookpublished at 00:59 BST 5 May

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Cheers on the carpet for Heated Rivalry starspublished at 00:56 BST 5 May
Pratiksha Ghildial
Reporting from the Met Gala

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Hudson Williams
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are here attracting some of the loudest cheers.
The stars of the Canadian break-out LGBTQ romance Heated Rivalry looked every bit as handsome as their on-screen personas.
At one point the crowd was chanting “Connor, Connor”.
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Connor Storrie
Musicians of today and yesterdaypublished at 00:54 BST 5 May

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Stevie Nicks in an all-black ensemble
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Audrey Nuna in a black and white outfit
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Singer Sombr in silver and black
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Singer-songwriter SZA stuns in a butterfly-inspired gown

Margot Robbie is draped in goldpublished at 00:50 BST 5 May

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It's Devil Wears Prada night at the Met Galapublished at 00:47 BST 5 May
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the Met Gala

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Anne Hathaway
The crowd just went wild as Anne Hathaway made her way onto the carpet.
Her co-stars in the Devil Wears Prada 2, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt walked the carpet earlier.
She’s wearing a stunning, strapless black gown and (looks like) the designer Michael Kors is accompanying her.
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Emily Blunt
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Stanley Tucci and his wife Felicity Blunt, who is the sister of his co-star Emily Blunt

Klimt inspires Hunter Schafer's lookpublished at 00:45 BST 5 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

Actress and model Hunter Schafer’s Euphoria character Jules is a painter, and in last night’s episode is shown painting a mural. So it’s only fitting that her custom Prada Met Gala dress take inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s 1912 painting Mäda Primavesi, which is part of the Met’s collection.
"It's this like flower girl," Schafer says. "And so yeah, we were inspired by that, and kind of tried to recreate the painting, but Prada-fied it".
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Quite the date nightpublished at 00:44 BST 5 May

Famous couples abound at what must be the most extravagant date night of the year.
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Alexander Soros, Huma Abedin, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor attend the 2026 Met Gala
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Alexi Ashe and Seth Meyers
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Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade

Sabrina Carpenter channels old Hollywoodpublished at 00:37 BST 5 May
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the Met Gala

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We just asked Grammy-winning singer Sabrina Carpenter what the film on her dress is from and she simply shouted, "Sabrina".
She is talking about the 1954 Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart classic, which was later remade with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond.
The outfit is made by Jonathan Anderson for Dior, who also did her Coachella costumes.
Hollywood stars are out in forcepublished at 00:36 BST 5 May

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Actress Carey Mulligan wears a simple pink dress
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Actress Angela Bassett in hot pink at the red carpet
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Actress Julianne Moore opts for a simple black gown
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Naomi Watts

Hailey Bieber evokes ancient Greco-Roman artpublished at 00:33 BST 5 May

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Black is the new blackpublished at 00:31 BST 5 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

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Actor Rami Malek
Black absorbs colour and light, so maybe that’s what the copious Gala attendees wearing black tonight were going for in response to the Fashion is Art theme.
Yeah, let’s go with that. Invitees in black include Cara Delevingne, Charli XCX, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts, co-chair Venus Williams, Olivia Wilde, Rauw Alejandro, Rosé, Tyriq Withers, Jaafar Jackson, amongst many, many others.
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Actress Maya Hawke
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Actress and director Olivia Wilde