At Monday night’s Met Gala, where the dress code was the highly interpretable yet laughably vague “Fashion Is Art” — spun from the Met Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition, “Costume Art” — stars strolled the green carpet gussied up in looks inspired by the works of great sculptors, painters and photographers. Hunter Schafer wore a lovely Prada gown inspired by Gustav Klimt’s “Mäda Primavesi.” Troye Sivan channeled photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in tousled hair and designer jeans. Nicole Kidman showed up in a red sequin dress because she “wanted to embrace the way in which red has been used in art through the years.” They can’t all be knockouts.
Rubbing elbows with the glitterati was former journalist, children’s book author, and occasional explorer of the cosmos, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who, alongside her husband, Jeff Bezos, bought her way into the function for a cool (reported) $10 million. The hefty price tag made Sánchez and Bezos the lead sponsors of the exhibition and gala, and scored them the title of honorary chairs, shoehorning in their names alongside Kidman, Venus Williams, Anna Wintour and Beyoncé.
