I can think of about a million things (good and bad) that have happened between 2016 and now, but seeing Beyoncé on a Met Gala red carpet unfortunately isn't one of them. The Cowboy Carter singer famously took a ten-year hiatus from the annual fashion event, but tonight she made her long-awaited return as one of the 2026 Met Gala's four co-chairs wearing glam that I'll probably obsess over for the rest of this week, and then some.
The last time Bey attended the Met Gala, the theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," and she showed up wearing a beige latex gown from Givenchy. At the time, her honey brown hair featured blonde highlights and she styled it in a bone-straight blowout with a middle part, and she topped off her look with black nail polish and the smokiest smoky eye I've ever seen in my life. A lot has changed since then, and for tonight's theme, she went a completely different direction, wearing sheer nude Olivier Rousteing gown embellished with silver crystals that were applied in the shape of a skeleton. She also wore soft glam this time around, and instead of the straight look, she wore her hair in long, crimped waves underneath a large silver headpiece that matched her gown.
