SAINT LAURENT AND ANTHONY VACCARELLO SUPPORT COSTUME ART, THE COSTUME INSTITUTE’S SPRING 2026 EXHIBITION AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. THE THEME OF THE EXHIBITION – THE BODY, THE CLOTHING IT WEARS, AND THE WAY BOTH HAVE BEEN REPRESENTED IN ART ACROSS THE CENTURIES – EXPLORES A TOPIC THAT HAS REMAINED CENTRAL TO THE MAISON SINCE ITS FOUNDING BY YVES SAINT LAURENT IN 1961. THE BELIEF THAT THERE IS NO DIVISION BETWEEN FASHION AND ART IS EMBODIED TODAY IN THE WORK OF ANTHONY VACCARELLO, WHO HAS ALWAYS EMPHASIZED THAT THE PHYSICAL FORM – AND HOW YOU IMAGINE DRESSING IT – IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO THE LEGACY OF SAINT LAURENT. 

GUESTS WHO WORE SAINT LAURENT AT THE MET GALA INCLUDED ZOË KRAVITZ, MADONNA AND AKEEM MORRIS, CONNOR STORRIE, HAILEY BIEBER, ROSÉ, KATE MOSS, ANJA RUBIK, RAMI MALEK, CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, DOJA CAT, RAUW ALEJANDRO, AMELIA GRAY, CHARLI XCX, IMAAN HAMMAM, AND LOLI BAHIA.

ZOË KRAVITZ APPEARED IN A WINTER 26 RUNWAY LOOK FEATURING A BLACK LACE BODICE AND CRINOLINE-INSPIRED CONSTRUCTION. MADONNA EMBRACED A THEATRICAL VISION INSPIRED BY SURREALIST PAINTER LEONORA CARRINGTON. CONNOR STORRIE PAIRED SHARP TAILORING WITH A FLUID POLKA-DOT BLOUSE.

HAILEY BIEBER WORE ANTHONY VACCARELLO’S INTERPRETATION OF YVES SAINT LAURENT’S WINTER 1969 COLLABORATION WITH CLAUDE LALANNE, FEATURING A SCULPTED 24-CARAT GOLD BODICE. ROSÉ WORE A STRAPLESS BLACK GOWN INSPIRED BY THE SAINT LAURENT ARCHIVES, ACCENTUATED BY A BIRD MOTIF DERIVED FROM GEORGES BRAQUE’S LES OISEAUX – A PAINTING FOUND ON THE CEILING OF THE LOUVRE AND REVISITED BY VACCARELLO.