The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened its doors to Hollywood on September 19, and the red carpet outside the museum's Exposition Park home turned into one of the year's most star-studded fashion moments in Los Angeles. The opening night gala, celebrating the museum founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, drew Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Michael B. Jordan, Laura Dern and dozens of other names from film, music and sports ahead of the museum's public opening on September 22.
Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner e Corey Gamble no red carpet do gala inaugural do Lucas Museum of Narrative Art em Los Angeles, Califórnia. (19/09) pic.twitter.com/NYeTQ0rV9w
— Access Kardashian (@accesskardash) September 20, 2026
Kardashian arrived in an archival Saint Laurent gown by Tom Ford, dating back to the house's fall/winter 2004 collection. The black sequined piece featured a keyhole cutout at the torso and heavy embellishment throughout, and was pulled from the archive by stylist Law Roach, who confirmed on social media that he has begun working with Kardashian. She paired the look with Oscar Heyman earrings and a Zydo ring, wearing her hair in a sleek low bun. Kardashian arrived alongside Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, who also wore Saint Laurent for the evening, a black suit from the house's ready-to-wear line under creative director Anthony Vaccarello, giving the pair a coordinated, single-designer moment on the carpet.
Katy Perry, meanwhile, brought a runway-fresh look to the gala, arriving with boyfriend Justin Trudeau in a structured Christian Siriano gown from the designer's spring 2027 collection, which debuted at New York Fashion Week just over a week earlier. The strapless white velvet dress featured a sculptural, draped neckline, ruched detailing at the hip and a slim column skirt with a subtle crushed-velvet texture. Perry finished the look with open-toe silver sandals, a delicate diamond bracelet and her hair parted down the center. The gown's near-immediate jump from Siriano's NYFW runway to a major red-carpet moment underscores how quickly this season's designer collections are making their way onto famous guests, a pattern that has defined much of the fall show circuit's afterlife.
Katy Perry arrives in style for the Lucas Museum's opening night. pic.twitter.com/NYKMrxGojv
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Other attendees added their own moments to the night. Eva Longoria wore a plunging white halter gown with a statement diamond lariat necklace, while Kerry Washington chose a two-tone gown pairing a mauve sequin corset with a flowing gray skirt. The guest list extended well beyond fashion's usual red-carpet regulars, reflecting the scale of the evening: Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Guillermo del Toro, Spike Lee, Greta Gerwig, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Hamill and Pharrell Williams were among the broader crowd celebrating the museum's opening, according to outlets covering the event.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, first announced in 2017 and now open in Exposition Park after years of delays, houses more than 40,000 works from Lucas's personal collection, spanning illustration, comic art, animation and film across a five-story, 300,000-square-foot building designed by architect Ma Yansong. For a fashion crowd, though, the opening night gala functioned much like any major museum benefit: a rare, single-night draw of A-listers whose archival and runway choices give designers and stylists a high-visibility stage outside the usual red-carpet calendar. Between Kardashian's early-2000s Saint Laurent archive pull and Perry's days-old Siriano gown, the night offered two very different approaches to dressing for a cultural moment, one leaning on fashion history and the other on the immediacy of the current runway season.
