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When the Met Gala announced its dress code for 2026, fashion experts collectively furrowed their brows. \u201cFashion is Art\u201d might be the Costume Institute\u2019s most on-the-nose theme yet<\/a>. Does it mean that Lady Gaga will arrive on the red carpet wearing a giant picture frame<\/a>? Or will stylists interpret the line in the press release that alludes to the \u201ccentrality of the dressed body\u201d and give us dozens of naked dresses?<\/p>\n

The dress code for this year\u2019s event \u2013 taking place May 4 \u2013 is inspired by \u201cCostume Art,\u201d the name of the Costume Institute\u2019s Spring exhibition<\/a> that explores depictions of the dressed body through a series of thematic body types: \u201cthe naked body,\u201d \u201cclassic body,\u201d \u201cpregnant body\u201d and \u201cageing body.\u201d Guests are encouraged to think of their bodies as a blank canvas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many ways you can look at it,\u201d says celebrity stylist Mickey Freeman, who styled Tony Award-winning producer Cody Renard Richard for last year\u2019s Met Gala. \u201cThere\u2019s actual literal art and figurative art. But that\u2019s the beauty of the Met Gala: it\u2019s your interpretation.\u201d <\/p>\n

Below, we spoke to celebrity stylists about their sartorial predictions for this year\u2019s biggest night in fashion\u2026.<\/p>\n

Yes, there will be lots of naked dresses <\/p>\n

\"ActorActor and model Julia Fox wore a mostly transparent Dilara Findikoglu dress to the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars party, apart from some strategically placed hair (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Since the \u201cCostume Art\u201d theme celebrates how the human body is a living canvas for fashion \u2014 we can expect to see some risqu\u00e9 looks. Celebrity stylist KJ Moody, who will be dressing VIPs for this year\u2019s event, predicts that we\u2019re going to see a lot of sheer, lace dresses on the red carpet. The translucent look that accentuates parts of the female form, known as \u201cnaked dressing,\u201d has been a popular red carpet look in recent years, as seen on actor Julia Fox, who wore a transparent Dilara Findikoglu dress to the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars party and musician Chappell Roan, who wore a burgundy Mugler dress suspended<\/a> from her nipples at this year\u2019s Grammys. <\/p>\n

Moody believes that the inspiration behind these looks will celebrate iconic moments from fashion history. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favorite Met Gala looks is when Beyonc\u00e9 wore a sheer black look by Givenchy in 2012. It had a blue and black feather train,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I think we\u2019ll see homages to moments like that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Unconventional silhouettes <\/p>\n

\"AA look from John Galliano\u2019s 2003 Dior collection that featured voluminous silhouettes (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Not all red carpet gowns need to be form-fitting. Moody predicts that celebrities may go in the opposite direction and play with sculptural, oversized and eccentric silhouettes.<\/p>\n

He believes Met Gala guests can find inspiration in the designs of John Galliano, who celebrated the oversized silhouette in his 2003 couture show for Christian Dior. The event featured Japanese kimonos and traditional Chinese attire transformed into some of the most voluminous silhouettes ever seen, with models submerged in 18th-century hoopskirts, tent-like structural dresses and oversized ruffled coats with enlarged shoulder pads. <\/p>\n

Paintings transformed into fashion <\/p>\n

\"\u2018Fashion\u2018Fashion is Art\u2019 could be interpreted quite literally at this year\u2019s Met Gala (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

People may also interpret this year\u2019s theme very literally. Moody says guests could honor iconic pieces of art \u2014 like a dress printed with the Mona Lisa. Or, say, a sequined jacket depicting \u201cThe Swing,\u201d a classical 18th-century painting by French artist Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard, which portrays a woman in a large pink dress on a swing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will see a lot of sculptures or interpretations of art on the wall,\u201d he says. \u201cOr work from designers\u2019 favorite visual artists.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rare, archival references <\/p>\n

\"CardiCardi B wore a vintage 1995-96 Thierry Mugler gown to the 2019 Grammy Awards (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The best outfits could be the ones we never thought we\u2019d see again, according to Freeman. The stylist says that runway looks that have been buried deep in the fashion archives for decades will be unearthed for the occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can expect certain outfits to make their debut at the Met Gala, like the designs of Thierry Mugler,\u201d he says, referencing the work of the late French designer during the 1980s and 1990s, which played with theatrical silhouettes and architectural structures. The House of Mugler, a French fashion house founded by the designer, has an extensive collection of his signature decades-old looks that are perfect for this theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cMugler\u2019s rare archival pieces never see the light of day,\u201d says Freeman. \u201cI think they could finally be getting their moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anatomical fashion <\/p>\n

\"NickiNicki Minaj at the 2010 American Music Awards in a skeleton-inspired dress by Manish Arora (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re squeamish, you may want to avert your eyes while watching this year\u2019s red carpet. Freeman predicts that celebrities might interpret the theme by celebrating what\u2019s inside their bodies through garments that mimic organs and bones, dubbed anatomical fashion. <\/p>\n

He references Elsa Schiaparelli\u2019s 1938 Skeleton Dress \u2014 featuring three-dimensional ribs, vertebrae and limb bones \u2014 and Alexander McQueen\u2019s 2023 \u201cAnatomy\u201d collection, which featured designs that resembled dissected bodies. \u201cLet’s not forget the human body is beautiful, and yes, it actually is a work of art,\u201d says Freeman.<\/p>\n

A… \u2018cement suit\u2019<\/p>\n

\"TylaTyla was dressed in a sand-covered sculptural Balmain gown for the 2024 Met Gala theme \u2018The Garden of Time\u2019 (Getty Images for The Met Museum\/)<\/p>\n

Met Gala guests might go one step further and turn themselves into actual museum objects. Freeman thinks we could see designers use clay products to form a \u201ccement suit\u201d that mimics the appearance of a Renaissance sculpture. He gushes over South African singer Tyla\u2019s skin-tight Balmain strapless gown, covered in real sand, that she wore at the 2024 Met Gala for the theme, \u201cThe Garden of Time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would really love to see some kind of cement,\u201d he adds. \u201cOr just unconventional materials used to make a garment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-418700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}