Sabrina Carpenter and Met Gala raise $42 million for the Met
sabrina carpenter was part of a Met Gala 2026 night that raised a record $42 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The total put fresh financial weight behind an event built around the opening of an exhibition about the dressed body, with the carpet split between fashion history references and looks centered on the body itself.
Jeff Bezos and the $10 million talk
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos served as the lead sponsors, and they were thought to have contributed $10 million. That scale sat alongside another layer of exclusivity: individual guests wrote cheques for up to $1 million to make the Anna Wintour-approved final cut.
The money trail made the night more than a social calendar fixture. A $42 million fundraising total gives the museum a cleaner headline than any single look on the carpet, and it also shows how heavily the guest list is financed before anyone reaches the stairs.
Beyoncé, Kim and Kylie
Beyoncé wore sparkling crystal bones over a sheer flesh-toned dress in a collaboration with Olivier Rousteing. Kim Kardashian showed bullet-pointed breasts in a collaboration with the British pop artist Allen Jones, while Kylie Jenner wore a nude corset with prosthetic breasts and a belly button, with the attached dress appearing to slip to the floor.
Kim, Kylie and Kendall Kardashian all wore corsets or breast plates, a lane that pushed the body to the front of the night. The red carpet also leaned hard into sculpted forms, with nipples, skeletons and cleavage drawing attention as much as any formal silhouette.
Lisa and Skepta
Lisa from Blackpink wore a veiled gown with two additional arms, sculpted by Robert Wun from 3D scans of her own body. Skepta wore a Thom Browne suit with embroidery copied directly from tattoos on his body beneath, another example of the night’s body-as-design theme.
Those choices matched the event’s split identity: some guests nodded to famous fashion moments in art history, while others treated the body itself as the reference point. The result was less about a single dominant style and more about how far attendees could push the brief of Fashion Is Art.
For readers tracking where the night landed, the business side is already settled: the Met has a $42 million result, and the fashion side will keep circulating because the carpet gave it enough material to outlast the event itself.
