From Beyoncé’s skeleton dress to Heidi Klum’s statue: Which celebs hit the mark with this year’s Met Gala theme

The Met Gala’s 2026 theme, “Fashion is Art”, might be the event’s most ambiguous dress code yet.

Monday’s annual star-studded fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute was inspired by “Costume Art”, the Met’s blockbuster Spring exhibition, which explores depictions of the dressed body through a series of thematic body types: “the naked body,” “classic body,” “pregnant body” and “ageing body.”