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Essence Festival 2026 performer Cardi B wore custom Marc Jacobs to the 2026 Met Gala. This look is a continuation of a fashion streak that followed her tour, where she delivered standout looks at every stop along the way.
For the Met Gala, she leaned into Marc Jacobs’ signature sculptural language, appearing in a gown defined by a bubbled,
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It’s been 10 years since Beyoncé last attended the Met Gala. But, tonight, she’s serving as more than just a co-chair. This year’s theme celebrated “Costume Art” and, for Bey, that meant dressing up as a skeleton dripping in diamonds.
Beyoncé at The 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art”
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And just like that, it’s the first Monday in May. This year’s Met Gala theme? Fashion is art. That said, attendees were tasked with interpreting the intersection of art andsrc=”https://media.essence.com/vxcjywbwpa/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274029098-scaled.jpg” alt=”Our Favorite Looks From The 2026 Met Gala” width=”400″ height=”560″ />Venus Williams at The 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art”
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On Friday night, fantasy hair fanatics flocked to New York’s Altman building for the second edition of the city’s most-loved hair show, Black Hair Reimagined. Produced by Echelon Noir, a company co-founded by hair legend Jawara Wauchope and creative director-curator Jarrod Lacks, this year’s show wrote a new narrative for Black hair.
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Kimora Lee has forever lived fabulously. The model was signed exclusively to Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld at just 13 years old in 1989. Then, in the same year, she debuted as the youngest-ever Chanel “bride” to close their haute couture show. From then on, she reached supermodel status before turning into the designer of her own brand Baby Phat and even starring in
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On Thursday, April 31st, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York marked a historic milestone with its centennial gala. This year, the gala honored Solange Knowles for her ongoing contributions to preserving Black history through research, curation, and creative storytelling.
For the occasion, Knowles arrived in an elegant all-black look by Issey
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Michaela Coel has been booked and busy. With two highly anticipated films, Mother Mary and The Christophers, set to premiere on the same day, the actress is entering yet another dynamic chapter of her career. With that, most recently, Coel turned heads at Chanel’s cruise show in Biarritz, marking Matthieu Blazy’s first cruise show for the house, where she embraced understated elegance with
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The Met Gala—which will be held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday—has long been coined as “fashion’s biggest night out.” Yet, since its inception in 1948, Hollywood’s biggest names have long valued—and sometimes, entirely relied on—how they present their beauty looks.
In 1981, for example, Iman wet her bob-length hair into
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Texture On Set, a hair conference and show founded by celebrity hairstylist Naeemah LaFond, returned to Brooklyn’s Industry City (just steps away from the ESSENCE HQ) yesterday morning. The doors opened at 10 A.M., inviting Black hairstylists and industry pros alike to an industrial warehouse to chat about all things textured hair, hosted