Met Gala 2026: Serena Williams, Angel Reese, Naomi Osaka among athletes to hit red carpet at annual costume gala

It’s the first Monday of May, which means The Metropolitan Museum of Art is holding its annual Met Gala. As always, plenty of the sports world’s biggest stars were in attendance, donning fashions in line with this year’s dress code: “Fashion is Art.”

Per the Met’s website, the dress code invites “guests to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.”

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Tennis star Venus Williams was one of the first to hit the red carpet, as she is one of this year’s co-chairs, alongside Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Anna Wintour. Four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson is one of the host committee members for the event.

New Atlanta Dream star Angel Reese is no stranger to the Met Gala red carpet, and she made the trip one day after a preseason game against Washington. Atlanta’s regular season begins on Saturday against the Minnesota Lynx.

Another tennis star, Naomi Osaka, brought the drama in not one, but two outfits. She removed her white coat ensemble to reveal a sparkly red dress and dramatic gloves.

Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu has been busy in the months since her historic win, and her latest stop is the Met Gala red carpet.

Fellow Olympian Lindsey Vonn hit the red carpet without a notable accessory: her crutches. Almost three months after her crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics, Vonn clearly made it a goal to walk the carpet all on her own.

This story will be updated as more stars arrive.