Bad Bunny has already had quite the busy year, and it showed at the 2026 Met Gala.
If you blinked, you could have missed seeing the 32-year-old Grammy winner walk the carpet, because he didn’t look like his typical self. Instead, Bad Bunny sported an aged look, sporting grey hair, eyebrows and a beard, while wearing a cane, appearing as a version of himself set quite a few years in the future.
The singer particularly tapped into the Aging Body theme tied to this year’s Met Gala theme. This year’s exhibition, “Costume Art,” was curated by Andrew Bolton and promised to “explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath,” and was organized into a series of thematic body types, including the Naked Body, the Pregnant Body and the Aging Body.
Mike Marino was behind the prosthetic art for Bad Bunny’s look, which saw the Happy Gilmore 2 actor adorned with wrinkles and aged skin. The singer reportedly designed his own look in collaboration with Zara.
The “Tití Me Preguntó” singer has already had a stacked 2026, serving as the headliner of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. Just ahead of that performance, Bad Bunny made history at the Grammys, becoming the first-ever artist to win the Grammy for album of the year for a non-English language album for his landmark DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. (He won a total of three Grammys at the 2026 ceremony.)
The Met Gala 2026 co-chairs include Vogue’s Anna Wintour, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams; Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos were honorary chairs. The host committee included Anthony Vaccarello, Zoë Kravitz, Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Misty Copeland, Alex Consani, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Rebecca Hall, LISA, Chloe Malle, Aimee Mullins, Amy Sherald, Tschabalala Self, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Anna Weyant, Lauren Wasser, A’ja Wilson, Chase Sui Wonders and Yseult.
The 2026 Met Gala was held Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. See all the sparkly celebrity looks from the carpet here, and catch up on all of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Met Gala coverage here.
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