Met Gala 2026 Fashion: See Every Celebrity Look (Live Updates)

"A little chrome, a little dipped silver," the model explained E!, "like, you know, a statue coming to life. Fashion is art." 

And, hard work. 

"It's a lot of stress and they're only on the carpet for like five minutes," Zendaya's longtime stylist Law Roach noted to E! in March, "and then you go in and it's all over. So, it's months and months of hard work for a five-minute payout."

Take the team tasked with measuring the museum's front doors last year to ensure musician André 3000 and the Pink Sparrow’s Steinway Model S baby grand piano strapped to his back would fit through. 

As A$AP Rocky noted afterwards on Late Nigh With Seth Meyers, "He stole the show!" 

And with this year's "Fashion Is Art" dress code, there's a lot for the sartorially minded to play around with. 

The nearly 400-piece Costume Institute exhibition, set to live in the Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, will focus on the "indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear," curator Andrew Bolton explained to Vogue. "The idea was to put the body back into discussions about art and fashion, and to embrace the body, not to take it away as a way of elevating fashion to an art form."

And the looks stars crafted were certainly stunning. Hang all of these in a museum.