She’s back to her wacky ways.
Katy Perry has landed at the Met Gala 2026 red carpet — in a look seemingly inspired by Kim Kardashian.
The pop star graced the Met ball on Monday in typical larger-than-life fashion, wearing a Stella McCartney look that included a futuristic face mask that nodded to this year’s “Fashion Is Art” theme.
She embraced the body-focused dress code, wearing a white strapless dress that trailed into a tattered train and added long, sleek gloves.
The singer hit the red carpet without boyfriend Justin Trudeau, styling her hair in a simple straight style. She accessorized with a set of grills — and a few cryptic tarot cards.
She appeared to be sending a pointed message, pulling out a magician card to show off to photographers.
She also held up a card that said “commit to the bit” that appeared to be Kim Kardashian’s 2021 Met Gala look — where she arrived with her face completely obscured in a totally blacked-out look.
Perry’s mask also echoes the mirrored mannequins that stand inside the exhibit, which reflect the viewer’s likeness as they stand in front of the looks, feeling as though they’re wearing the very outfit themselves.
Posting a video on Instagram of her hands, with five fingers on her left and six fingers on her right, Perry seems to be saying: Nothing is ever as it seems.
With her 6-fingered white gloves, the singer is poking fun at AI. In 2024 and 2025, though she didn’t actually attend the event either year, photos began to circulate of Perry on the iconic Met stairs.
This marks Perry’s 10th appearance at Vogue’s star-studded shindig after skipping out on the past two year’s carpets, and she’s famous for embracing each year’s dress code with more enthusiasm than most other attendees.
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In 2018, for instance, she arrived at the “Heavenly Bodies” ball wearing a set of massive Versace angel wings, and she co-hosted 2017’s “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between”-themed gala in a red veiled Maison Margiela Artisanal look that would’ve been right at home in the accompanying exhibition.
Perry’s greatest sartorial serve at the Met happened in 2019, however, when she cosplayed a chandelier (with help from then-Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott) befitting the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” theme — and later changed into a bedazzled hamburger costume.
After exclusively telling Page Six Style that she planned to “play a whole different card” at the 2022 event, however, the “Harleys in Hawaii” hitmaker showed up in a surprisingly subdued Oscar de la Renta gown that took fans by surprise for the year of “Gilded Glamour.”
“You know, it would be pretty obvious for me to go play the kooky, crazy, wild, big, fun, colorful card,” she’d told us ahead of the gala.
Clearly, Perry wants to keep us on our toes.
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