The model wore a sheer black silk chiffon gown by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon, built through couture draping inspired by the proportions of classical sculpture.The model wore a sheer black silk chiffon gown by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon, built through couture draping inspired by the proportions of classical sculpture.
Vittoria Ceretti opted for a sculptural look at the 2026 Met Gala on Monday.
Ceretti’s gown was designed by Wes Gordon, creative director of Carolina Herrera. Gordon approached the “Fashion Is Art” dress code through structure rather than ornament, drawing on one of the exhibition’s central propositions — the Classical Body — as an architectural starting point.
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“The theme pushed me toward sculpture, but more as a way of thinking than as a mood board. Classical works have this incredible sense of proportion. Everything is deliberate. That’s what I was after. The fabric moves with the body rather than sitting on top of it. And the cut-out is where the balance shifts slightly, giving the dress a sense of tension that keeps it feeling modern,” Gordon told WWD.
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Cut in sheer black silk chiffon, Ceretti’s gown was built through couture draping that follows the natural lines of the body, with a soft asymmetry through the torso, an open back, and an elongated skirt that extends the figure without interrupting it. Draping has long been central to the house’s practice, a way of working through proportion and movement rather than decoration, with the fabric shaped directly on the body so the silhouette develops through how it falls and shifts.
“With Vittoria, there’s a natural clarity in how she moves — we were adjusting the drape directly on her, in real time. The classical body stopped being something idealized and became something lived-in,” Gordon said in a statement.
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Ceretti has attended the Met Gala three times previously, making her debut in 2021, when she walked the carpet as a guest of Michael Kors in a Michael Kors Collection dress with Bulgari jewelry, for the “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” theme. She returned in 2023 for the “Karl Lagerfeld” gala and again in 2025, when she wore a Moncler pinstripe minidress — and arrived alongside her partner, Leonardo DiCaprio, marking his first-ever appearance at the event.
The 2026 Met Gala took place on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This year’s exhibition, “Costume Art,” celebrated fashion as an art form, with a dress code of “Fashion Is Art.” The event was cochaired by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos serving as honorary chairs. The annual benefit raises funds for the Met’s Costume Institute.
