Tongues! ’Tinis! Gracie Abrams Photographs the 2026 Met Gala

Reported by Vogue.

Every year, the Met Gala operates on a simple rule that levels the playing field between pop stars and A-listers: no phones. Which means whatever actually happens inside — the champagne toasts, the architectural gowns nobody can sit down in, the overdue catch-ups that somehow turn into a full therapy session — stays inside. Unless, of course, Vogue hands a camera to someone with an eye for it.

This year, that someone was Gracie Abrams. According to Vogue, the singer attended the 2026 Met Gala as an embedded reporter of sorts, armed with a Met-approved camera and a table full of Chanel. She arrived in a gilded custom gown nodding to Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I — mosaic-like, gold-drenched, entirely correct for a "Fashion Is Art" theme — and spent the evening photographing the room between what she describes as overdue catch-ups with every willing subject. "Everyone looked so beautiful in their respective interpretations of the theme," she said, "and every single person who allowed me to snap a picture was a gorgeous muse."

Inside the Party Nobody Else Could Document

Her tablemates alone read like a casting director's dream: Jennie Kim, Lily-Rose Depp, Bhavitha Mandava, and Awar Odhiang, all under the Chanel banner. But Abrams ranged well beyond her own table. Her images caught Paloma Elsesser in what can only be described as molten form, Zoë Kravitz doing a perfectly calibrated pout, and Vittoria Ceretti's glittering back turned to the camera like a deliberate editorial choice. Hailey Bieber and Charli xcx looked ready to close out a club, while Sabrina Carpenter — who later performed alongside Stevie Nicks at the Temple of Dendur — was already getting the party started. Martinis flowed. Then flowed again.

There were quieter moments too: Maya Hawke and Lena Dunham grouped up with Abrams herself; Matthieu Blazy posed with Jennie Kim over what the Chanel table apparently committed to as a burrata-and-martini evening; the Heated Rivalry boys Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams showed up looking like they belonged. It's the kind of inside access that reminds you the Met Gala isn't just a red carpet — it's a dinner party where the dress code happens to be museum-worthy and the guest list defies any one cultural category.

When fashion declares itself art, it helps to have an artist document the aftermath.

Read the original at Vogue.