Naomi Osaka Wears Straight-off-the-Runway Robert Wun at the 2026 Met Gala
She recently tapped the designer for her unforgettable Australian Open appearance
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Naomi Osaka has made a habit of treating professional tennis like a front-row fashion moment, and the 2026 Met Gala was simply the logical conclusion. According to Harper's Bazaar, she arrived in a white sculptural gown and a wide, dramatically curved hat — both by Robert Wun, both erupting in bright red feathers that read less like embellishment and more like a statement of intent. Sheer red gloves with pointed black claws finished the look, and if that sounds like a lot, it was. Gloriously so.
The full ensemble had already made its debut on the Robert Wun runway in January, which means Osaka didn't just wear fashion — she wore the fashion, straight off the catwalk and onto the most-photographed carpet on earth. This isn't a new move for her. Last summer's US Open saw her in frilly, bedazzled kits with matching bejeweled Labubus named Billie Jean Bling and Arthur Flashe. Then, at the 2025 Australian Open, she walked onto the court in a jellyfish-inspired dress with a veiled hat and umbrella — also Robert Wun — and effectively collapsed the boundary between athlete and fashion week regular.
Athletes Take the Gala
Osaka had telegraphed all of this in a 2025 tweet, declaring she'd treat every major tennis tournament like the Met Gala. So when the actual gala arrived, there was only one direction to go: further. And she did. The night's theme, "Costume Art," drew an unusually deep bench of sports royalty — Serena Williams joined Venus Williams to celebrate Venus's co-chair debut, while A'ja Wilson, figure skater Alysa Liu, and David Beckham rounded out a carpet that felt less like a fashion event tolerating athletes and more like fashion finally catching up with them.
Osaka, specifically, has built something rare: a fashion identity that doesn't feel borrowed from the industry or softened for palatability. It's specific, it's maximalist, and it has a point of view that most celebrities spend entire careers trying to manufacture.
When the athlete is the fashion moment, you stop waiting for what she'll wear next and start looking forward to it.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
