Emma Chamberlain wore a piece of art on the 2026 Met Gala red carpet in New York City on Monday. Chamberlain commissioned Chicago-born interdisciplinary artist and designer Anna Deller-Yee to hand-paint a custom Mugler dress, a choice inspired by the evening’s “Fashion Is Art” dress code. The dress was created in collaboration between Delle-Yee and Mugler’s creative director, Miguel Castro Freitas, and styled by Jared Ellner. Emma Chamberlain Gilbert Flores The dress was made entirely using traditional fine art materials, according to Deller-Yee. No conventional fashion-based paints were used. The artist worked with approximately 30 base colors, expanded through custom mixing, across roughly 40 hours of painting time, followed by approximately four days of drying with ventilation. You May Also Like Deller-Yee has previously created hand-painted pieces for Anna Wintour and has collaborated with Marni and Schiaparelli.…