On the Podcast: Inside the Met Gala 2026 with Chase Sui Wonders
The actress sat down with Chloe and Chioma at the Met Gala to talk through their highlights from the night.
Reported by Vogue.
The Met Gala exists in a category of nights that sound mythological until someone gives you the receipts. Chase Sui Wonders has receipts. At her very first Met, the actress arrived at 5:30 p.m. in a lilac Alexander McQueen gown drawn from ancient Roman murals she'd seen on a trip to Pompeii — entirely sheer, layered over a bodysuit for obvious reasons, and finished with Tiffany jewels that read as armor. The "Fashion Is Art" theme wasn't just a dress code. For Wonders, it was a literal creative brief.
The Night the Radish Went Rogue
According to Vogue, the evening delivered the kind of chaos that no PR team could script. Emily Blunt rescued Wonders from a hedge after her gown snagged in it. A bathroom run turned into front-row seats to Tessa Thompson aggressively removing her synthetic nails. On the dance floor — during a surprise Stevie Nicks performance, no less — A$AP Rocky accidentally stepped on her train. And then there was the radish: launched from her plate, it landed squarely in Janelle Monáe's CD-ROM nipple cover. "We laughed about it afterwards," Wonders said. Somehow, she also never made it to the burrata, having spent close to an hour navigating the notoriously congested walk through the Egyptian wing just to reach her table.
Vogue editors Chloe Malle and Chioma Nnadi brought their own dispatches from the floor. Nnadi spent the night seated next to Margiela creative director Glenn Martens, who was managing a running stream of Rihanna fitting updates on his phone throughout the evening — a detail that says everything about how the other half of this industry operates in real time. Malle, meanwhile, wore a persimmon gown by young American designer Colleen Allen, loosely riffing on Frederic Leighton's painting Flaming June. Two editors, two very different Met experiences, both completely on brand.
What the full picture of Met Gala 2026 reveals isn't just who wore what — it's that the most memorable moments happen around the clothes, not because of them. The dress gets you in the door. Everything else is luck, proximity, and whether or not the radishes are secured.
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