The 2026 Met Gala’s “Fashion Is Art” dress code gave celebrities room to turn their bodies into walking sculptures, but some viewers were left asking why so many of them seemed to arrive with extra hands.
The theme pushed guests toward conceptual fashion tied to the body as a canvas, with several looks drawing from Renaissance pieces, such as Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, sculpture, labor, creation, and the idea of the hand as the artist’s most important tool.
While that may have been the artistic explanation, online the reaction was far less generous.
