Wears Outfit by Partner Christian Cowan

What’s higher than strolling the Met Gala pink carpet together with your accomplice? Carrying one thing they designed for the event.

Sam Smith and their accomplice, designer Christian Cowan, attended the 2026 Met Gala collectively — each in customized seems by none aside from Cowan himself. Smith and Cowan’s matching black couture was impressed by the Twenties pioneer illustrator and designer Erté, who labored on the intersection of artwork and trend and whose work has graced the quilt of Vogue.

Smith’s sculptural look completely embodied this 12 months’s Met Gala costume code, “Style is Artwork.” Smith’s coat was adorned with over 230,000 crystals and beads, hand-placed by a workforce of 45 artisans over 800 hours of labor. Cowen’s Twenties tailoring, adorned with greater than 25,000 hand-applied beads, complemented his accomplice’s look. To finish their look, Smith wore a customized headpiece created in collaboration between Cowan and milliner Stephen Jones, in addition to jewellery by Cartier.

Smith shared a better take a look at their couture by way of an Instagram submit made minutes earlier than the Vogue pink carpet dwell stream started. Within the submit, Smith shared a quote from Erté that reads “Artwork is just not a factor; it’s a means.”

This marks Smith and Cowan’s third Met Gala look collectively. After being publicly linked in 2023, the five-time Grammy Winner and New York-based designer made their pink carpet debut as a pair on the 2024 Met Gala, the place additionally they wore coordinated designs by Cowan. In 2025, the duo graced the carpet once more in complementary couture by the designer that captured the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type.”