Met Gala 2026: Madonna, Rihanna, Cardi B, Doja Cat, Doechii, SZA, Sabrina Carpenter, & More Turn Heads with BOLD Looks [Photos]

It’s time! For fashionistas and fashion-forward fellows, “fashion’s biggest night out” – better known as the Met Gala – is easily the most wonderful time of year.

A designer costume party that doubles as a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City, the outing – which typically occurs the first Monday in May – is an annual assembly for Hollywood’s “who’s who” to show off some truly outrageous and over-the-top ensembles courtesy of top-named and well-respected designers.

This year’s event was helmed by a superstar panel of all co-chairs: Beyonce, Venus Williams, and Nicole Kidman (alongside Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos as honorary chairs) for the theme ‘Fashion Is Art’ in support of the Met’s Spring ‘Costume Art’ exhibition.

Hop inside to see how big names like Madonna, Rihanna, Ciara, Doja Cat, Cardi B, Angela Bassett, Doechii, Colman Domingo, Sabrina Carpenter, Damson Idris, SZA, KeKe Palmer, Serena Williams, and more showed up and out on the red carpet.

[photo sources: Getty]