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PHOTOS: Celebrities interpret 2026 Met Gala theme ‘Fashion is Art’

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From beyond the museum walls, works of art will move and take shape as the glitterati of guests from Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman to Venus Williams fashionably ascended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps and exhibit their creative interpretations of this year’s dress code, “Fashion is Art.”

The question of whether fashion is art has long been topic of conversation for fashion insiders. The dress code for the starry fundraising event called for guests to “express their relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”

See if they understood the assignment below.

Watch the green carpet show live here.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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