Amy Sherald Brings Her Painting to Life at the 2026 Met Gala

Amy Sherald Brings Her Painting to Life at the 2026 Met Gala

Sherald’s Thom Browne dress is inspired by her painting "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)"

How One of Amy Sherald’s Paintings Inspired Her Met Gala 2026 Look

In honor of the Fashion Is Art dress code, Thom Browne and the artist teamed up to make a dress taken directly from one of Sherald’s paintings. “Who embodies this theme more than Amy Sherald does?” Browne asked in the lead up to Monday.

Amy Sherald Dresses as Her Own Painting for Art-Themed Met Gala

When Amy Sherald hit the red carpet at the Costume Institute’s Met Gala on May 4, she appeared to have stepped directly out of her iconic 2013 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance). Wearing a red hat and a black-and-white dress created by designer Thom Browne, Sherald channeled the work’s youthful subject, who stares coolly out […]

Artist Amy Sherald attends Met Gala dressed as her own painting

Artist Amy Sherald’s costume at the Met Gala on Monday may have looked familiar to anyone who saw her record-breaking exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Amy Sherald: American Sublime. In keeping with the theme of the night, “Fashion is Art,” Sherald dressed as one of her own paintings from the exhibit. Collaborating with designer Thom Browne, Sherald came as the figure in her 2013 painting, Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance). Depict…

Amy Sherald Dresses As Her Own Award-Winning Painting for Met Gala

Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight’s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that won the artist the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Prize and appeared on a New Yorker cover last year. The paint…