{"id":414868,"date":"2026-05-06T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/414868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:16:13","slug":"celebrities-who-understood-costume-art-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/414868\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Who Understood \u201cCostume Art&#8221; Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The art of fashion was on full display at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/met_gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Met Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/anna_wintour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Wintour<\/a>\u2019s annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute, the museum announced the \u201cCostume Art\u201d exhibit would feature a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431551\/met-gala-2026-theme-dress-code-explained\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFashion is Art\u201d dress code<\/a> where celebrities and their stylists could view the body as a blank canvas.<\/p>\n<p>And while some stars opted for more classic formal wear, others really understood the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, Emma Chamberlain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431669\/met-gala-2026-emma-chamberlains-hand-painted-gown-inspired-by-her-dad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">custom Mugler dress<\/a>. The colorful look, inspired by Vincent van Gogh\u2019s painting \u201cGarden at Arles\u201d and featuring long fringe sleeves, took artist Anna Deller Yee 40 hours to hand paint and took four days to dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is sort of this watercolor feel, and I love watercolor painting,\u201d Emma told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/emma-chamberlain-met-gala-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue<\/a> in an interview published May 5. \u201cBut then also there\u2019s a creepy, sort of ominous undertone to the gown, like the way that it moves. And that is very much my taste in art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/heidi_klum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Klum<\/a> stole the show after tapping makeup artist Mike Marino\u2014her longtime collaborator for many of her viral Halloween costumes\u2014to transform her into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431651\/met-gala-2026-heidi-klum-outdoes-halloween-costumes-in-stone-statue-look\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a real-life version<\/a> of Raffaelle Monti\u2019s \u201cVeiled Vestal\u201d sculpture.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The art of fashion was on full display at the 2026 Met Gala. Ahead of Anna Wintour\u2019s annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-414868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}