Baby’s First Met! See All the Stars Who Made Their 2026 Met Gala Debuts
What do Blue Ivy Carter, Stevie Nicks, and the Heated Rivalry lads all have in common? Last night, they all hit the Met Gala red carpet for the very first time.
Reported by Vogue.
The 2026 Met Gala's most talked-about guest list wasn't made up of perennial front-row fixtures — it was the first-timers. More than 30 celebrities made their Met debuts on May 4th, and collectively, they may have outshone everyone who's been doing this for decades.
The range was genuinely staggering, according to Vogue. Chase Infiniti arrived fresh off her breakout role as Willa in One Battle After Another. Bhavitha Mandava — already the face of Matthieu Blazy's reimagined Chanel — treated the carpet like a natural extension of her editorial world. Then there were the surprises nobody saw coming: Dwayne Johnson, one of the most famous humans alive, had somehow never attended before. Neither had Blackpink's Jisoo. And Stevie Nicks didn't just show up for her first Met — she performed, joining Sabrina Carpenter inside the Temple of Dendur like someone who's been saving the moment for exactly the right occasion.
The Kids Who Came to Win
Perhaps the most undeniable fashion statements came from the co-chairs' children, who apparently did not get the memo about letting adults have the spotlight. Blue Ivy Carter wore a sculptural white Balenciaga gown that looked anything but accidental for a teenager. Sunday Rose Kidman Urban skipped school — good call — for a floral Dior look that read effortlessly considered. Both outfits suggested styling decisions made with full conviction, not just famous-parent proximity.
The rest of the debut class rounded out into something that felt like a cultural cross-section of right now: basketball's A'ja Wilson and Paige Bueckers, actors Joe Alwyn and Finn Wolfhard, K-pop presences Karina, Ningning, and Ahn Hyo-seop, plus the full Heated Rivalry roster making their entrance as a unit. Tate McRae, Romeo Beckham, Lux Pascal, Chase Sui Wonders, Danny Ramirez, Marcello Hernandez, and Sutton Foster — among others — filled out a list that reads less like a guest registry and more like a mood board for whoever's shaping culture in 2026.
The Met Gala invitation has always been its own kind of cultural timestamp, and this year's first-timers make one thing clear: the door just opened for an entirely new generation — and they dressed like they knew it.
Read the original at Vogue.
