Heidi Klum was virtually unrecognizable on Monday night’s Met Gala 2026 red carpet, arriving dressed as a marble statue complete with draped robes that hugged her figure and facial prosthetics that mimicked a veil rendered in stone.
The supermodel, 52, wore a floral wreath and flat sandals, showing off head-to-toe chalky gray body paint.
This year’s gala theme is meant to focus on “the centrality of the dressed body” throughout art and fashion history — and Klum certainly delivered, looking like she walked out of the museum’s sculpture gallery and onto the carpet.
The getup had echoes of the former Victoria’s Secret model’s 2026 Grammys look, a literal second-skin dress that was molded on her body and painted to match her skin tone.
She’s also known for her elaborate Halloween costumes that have her sitting for hours to get prosthetics added all over her body.
At the Vetements fashion show late last year, she wore nothing but a see-through lace dress, thong underwear and platinum grills. Klum even went totally incognito for Coachella last month, wearing an array of disguises and wigs.
For last year’s appearance at the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”-themed ball, the German supermodel went for a surprisingly subdued look, wearing a strapless black Vetements dress.
It was her first appearance on this particular red carpet in 12 years, having last attended in 2013.
Off the carpet, Klum is raising a family of supermodels. Daughter Leni Klum has become a fashion staple, often posing with her mom for Italian intimates brand Intimissimi and son Henry Samuel has also joined the family business.
After making his runway debut in 2025, Samuel landed his own magazine cover and, earlier this year, posed with Heidi and Leni for the cover of Paper magazine.
