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The Who What Wear Podcast: The Met Gala 2026 Recap: Unpacking the Theme, the Art References, and the Best Beauty Moments

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On Monday, moments after the 2026 Met Gala red carpet wrapped up, Hillary Kerr and Who What Wear Editor in Chief Kat Collings sat down in the studio to dissect the most interesting interpretations of the night. The exhibition theme was Costume Art, and the Met Gala's dress code was Fashion Is Art. Hillary and Kat break down the smartest references, the greatest glam details, and the designers who won the night.  Watch this episode ⁠⁠here on our new ⁠YouTube channel⁠⁠⁠, and be sure to subscribe!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Who What Where Podcast.

0:12.0

I'm Kat Collings, and today Hillary and I are sitting down in the studio to recap the

0:16.9

2026 Met Gala. We recorded right after the red carpet wrapped up, and in honor of fashion's biggest night, we're dropping this episode a day early. You're welcome. The dress code was fashion is art, which we saw displayed in full force last night. We're here to dissect everything from the smartest references to the best dressed, and we're also sharing clips sent in by our editor correspondence who are live on the scene. It's all coming up on who what, where.

0:47.3

Okay, Kat, are you ready? Ready as ever. I mean, I'm not ready. I'm still processing the fact

0:52.1

that I just started crying in a room full of people when

0:55.1

Beyonce walked on the red carpet for the first time in 10 years. I'm embarrassed. I think everyone

1:00.2

played it cool. They were like, oh, okay. Not me, not my right eye. No, I mean, with your crying.

1:04.0

We were like pretending it wasn't happening. It's just like a slow tear only on one side. Like I'm

1:09.7

Johnny Depp in that 1990s movie. Never mind walking

1:12.7

that back. So we're sitting down just moments after the MetGala Red Carpet Awards ended.

1:17.6

I have so many thoughts. I'm sure you have a lot of thoughts too. Plenty. Can we start while

1:22.6

it's like incredibly fresh in our minds? What was the most memorable moment for you? Let's elaborate on Beyoncé

1:29.1

for just a moment because you cried. Like a giant emotional baby. It was really the family of it all

1:35.4

that I think was quite touching, right? Showing up with her daughter. But it's also, it's just

1:40.0

Beyonce. This is the first time in a decade. Do you remember the last time? No. It felt like a

1:45.1

homecoming to see her there again. And it makes me just all kinds of emotional and delighted to see

1:50.8

her out and about. Well, that was exciting. She had about seven attendants just for like her feather

1:54.9

train. And then Blue showed up looking really cool, but age appropriate. Yes. Mr. Carter looked nice, too. He did look

2:01.9

nice, elegant. My biggest, like, what moment was, like, double-take was bad bunny, I have to say?

2:08.3

In the old face makeup? Yeah, and aged. It was reminding me of like 100 days of school tradition.

2:14.0

Yeah, that was interesting. Halloween. Some people have gone Halloween, I think, this year.

2:17.8

I love that. I would rather a Halloween or a bizarre moment a la Heidi Gloom, frankly, I would prefer that to all of the tasteful gowns in the world.

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