After a decade away, Queen B made a royal return to the Met Gala on Monday, bringing the carpet to a halt as she made her grand entrance.
Beyoncé, who serves as a co-chair for this year’s event alongside Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, last attended the famed fashion outing in 2016 while wearing Givenchy Haute Couture for the “Manus x Machina” theme.
“It feels surreal because my daughter’s here,” Beyoncé told Vogue on the red carpet when asked what it was like to be back. The singer emphasized how beautiful her daughter looked.
“This is incredible to be able to share it with her,” she continued, seemingly getting emotional over the moment. The pair posed together on the red carpet, with the 14-year-old looking just as cool as her mother in a pair of trendy shades.
This time around, the Cowboy Carter singer was dripping in jewels. The Grammy Award-winning singer wore a diamond-encrusted dress made to look like a skeleton and a matching headpiece. The ensemble was designed by Olivier Rousteing, the former head of Balmain. “[He’s] someone that’s been so loyal to me, and I’ve done so many incredible, iconic looks with him, so it’s really about representing him,” the singer told Vogue on the carpet.
At the top of the steps, Beyoncé and Blue Ivy also took a moment to pose for a family photo, standing alongside rapper Jay-Z.
The 2026 theme is “Costume Art,” tied to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition of the same name, which “examines the centrality of the dressed body throughout time and culture, juxtaposing garments and works of art from across the Museum’s vast collection to create pairings that highlight the indivisible connection between clothing and the body,” per The Met.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are also on hand this year as honorary chairs, and the Gala Host Committee is co-chaired by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz, with members including Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Rebecca Hall, Blackpink’s Lisa, Chloe Malle, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Sam Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult.
The 2026 Met Gala was held on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. See what all the stars wore here, and catch up on all of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Met Gala coverage here.
