Chase Infiniti Channeled a Glammed-Up Venus de Milo at the 2026 Met Gala
Infiniti’s Thom Browne dress was densely layered with embroidery and fringes to mimic brushstrokes.
Reported by Vogue.
For a first Met Gala appearance, showing up as a reimagined ancient goddess is a pretty strong opening move. One Battle After Another star Chase Infiniti made her inaugural first Monday in May count, arriving in a Thom Browne trompe l'oeil gown that drew directly from Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo — the second-century-BC marble icon whose armless silhouette has haunted art history ever since. The execution was staggering: over 1.5 million stacked sequins, tiered silk fringes rendered in more than 600 colors, each layer placed to replicate the quality of a brushstroke. Not a costume. A canvas.
Illusion Was the Real Dress Code
Infiniti wasn't the only first-timer leaning into fool-the-eye dressing, according to Vogue. Devyn Garcia arrived in a Michael Kors column gown built around her own body's contours — Kors called it "a trompe l'oeil viscose jacquard crystal-embellished column that allows one to leave the house naked yet fully dressed." Sabine Getty added her own surrealist spin with a corset featuring jeweled hands clutching a bare torso. The theme was "Fashion Is Art," and these three collectively made the case that illusion isn't a trick — it's a discipline.
Infiniti's red carpet credibility isn't limited to the Met steps, either. At the 2026 Oscars, she wore a custom Louis Vuitton lavender silk dress — over 750 hours of construction — paired with a De Beers London Summer choker from the house's Metamorphosis 2023 couture collection. Two major red carpets, two looks that didn't just land but lingered. That's not luck; that's point of view.
What makes Infiniti's rise as a style figure interesting isn't just the caliber of the houses dressing her — it's the conceptual coherence. A Venus de Milo gown isn't a random flex; it's a statement about beauty, art, and the body that holds up under scrutiny. Young Hollywood has no shortage of women in gorgeous dresses. It has far fewer who seem to actually be in conversation with the theme.
The "Fashion Is Art" brief could have produced a lot of pretty, safe, easily forgotten looks — Chase Infiniti treated it like a thesis.
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