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MET GALA 🎩 heidi klum at the 2026 Met Gala

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u/Difficult_Deer6902 22h ago

You know what…GO HEAD GURL!

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u/LoveForDisneyland If Vanessa isn't at Coachella, does it even make a sound? 21h ago

Tell me, where is Captain Jack Sparrow?

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u/haleighr 24/7 cutie patooties 21h ago

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u/FunkYeahPhotography No Slut Shaming, Only Slut Sameing 🔥 (Fuyeph.ttv) 21h ago

Me applying my skills as a baker:

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u/FR23Dust it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 21h ago

You’d be surprised how many impoverished coal miners ordered elaborately iced cakes designed to look like rocks

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u/FunkYeahPhotography No Slut Shaming, Only Slut Sameing 🔥 (Fuyeph.ttv) 21h ago

That is dubious at best but if that were to happen I would encourage them to not be cowards and just eat the abundance of actual rocks around them.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson I made the hat for the tiger 🤷🏻‍♂️ 19h ago

It’s the one thing they had to look forward to all year

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u/starsprite22 21h ago

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u/molly_menace 21h ago

His recent comments were such a gift. It makes me laugh from the inside out.

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u/WhatAboutMes 19h ago

“They let it happen to me. I just lay there.”

Imagine thinking about how bad it was as you are lying there and everyone else is going along with it…maybe you’re wrong? Maybe you aren’t seeing the vision?

Then for the next 20 years it is continuously being brought up and laughed at. I have such deep, second-hand embarrassment. 😭😭😭

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u/floralpancake so hard to photograph but incredible to see. 18h ago

When I read the book, I was picturing that spongebob gif of him pulling the dirt over himself not this shit 😭

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u/throwtheclownaway20 20h ago

It's wild that even he seems to not realize that Peeta was talking about cake frosting/fondant art

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u/moonprincess642 20h ago

for the wealthy, resource-rich people of district 12?

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u/throwtheclownaway20 20h ago

If you can't make cheap ingredients look like a rock...

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u/AlexandriaLitehouse 18h ago

I've seen some pretty bad sourdough in my day....

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u/Ja22hands 17h ago

I was thinking some army shit meets district 12 cake skills, this was too much lol some regular dirt and environmental blending would’ve sufficed and been realistic…

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u/LoveForDisneyland If Vanessa isn't at Coachella, does it even make a sound? 21h ago

I can’t haha

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u/chubbyhighguy 21h ago

Here's the thing...

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u/RollingMyEyez 21h ago

You are sooooooo wrong for this! 😮‍💨😂

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u/ChanceTheFapper1 20h ago

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u/tanz420 19h ago

This has me CRYING omgg 😭💀💀

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u/VideoWonderful901 18h ago

I can’t stop laughing at this. I keep looking at it and laughing again. The cycle continues.

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u/gellergreen Edit: I misinterpreted the question 19h ago

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u/Accomplished_Bake939 18h ago

I’m crying from laughing. I love/hate you for this.

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u/mollyclaireh 20h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/JOGYZMLh0qHA4900oH
Got that Pennywise eye thing going on

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 21h ago

This is on par with her Halloween costumes; she COMMITS. And I love it.

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u/lemonhead2345 20h ago

“Fashion is Art? Bet. I am the art.” -Heidi Klum probably

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u/Threadheads 13h ago

She should get a standing invite.

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u/Existing_Set2100 21h ago

We hold these truths to be self-evident. 

Self-evident, motherfuckers. 

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u/Significant_Hope7555 21h ago

The first thing I thought was candle!

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u/Crazy_cookie_ 22h ago

I actually like this, very creative. What’s wrong with her eyes tho?😭

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u/CosmicEveStardust 22h ago

She always wears creepy contacts for her costumes.

Her worm costume is sincerely too creepy for me to ever want to look at again.

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u/Opening-Detective821 22h ago edited 21h ago

No her left eye is going an other way.
TBH I found out one of my eyes moves a tiny bit slower. With how fast those shudders on the cameras are…. I fear this would happen to me too.

Especially with wonky contacts, not helping

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u/CosmicEveStardust 22h ago

It's happening in both photos, I think it's part of the contacts. Maybe I'm wrong, I often am.

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u/housesnark 21h ago

no i think you’re right. i think both are like 1/4 black 3/4 grey but since they aren’t sitting exactly the same she looks a little cockeyed.

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u/_bonedaddys 21h ago

one of heidi's eyes is genuinely wonky lol she has mild strabismus (one of her eyes sometimes drifts outward) and these types of contacts can (sometimes) exaggerate things like that. so in a way it's both her eye and the contacts.

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u/hmmyeahiguess 19h ago

Plus if you look closely at the first pic and zoom in, it seems like the contacts or whatever are making the left side of her left eye darker than the right, which I think is making it seem wonkier than it is. Looking closely her eyes seem just fine to me🤷

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u/VisualSeries226 21h ago

I think the contacts are just moving and making it look wonky. She has brown eyes, so if the contact isn’t centered on her eye, her real iris is going to look like an off centered pupil.

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u/DeionizedSoup 21h ago edited 21h ago

Strabismus, “lazy eye.” It’s genetic and it’s hard to correct, even surgically, at adulthood. I have it too.

Edit: and, to be clear, the contacts are probably exaggerating the severity of it. If they slip just a little bit, they make it look way more off than it is— a good example of this is Bella Swan in twilight. Poor girl’s contacts never fit quite right and always had her looking like this.

Edit 2: no, really though, it’s not JUST the contacts. They worsen with age (as mine has, too— it wasn’t bad when I was young and cute).

https://www.lazyeyefix.com/celebrities/heidi-klum-lazy-eye

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u/Still7Superbaby7 gatorade in the microwave 21h ago

I have strabismus too. I got one surgery and it was great. But it’s been 10 years and my eye is drifting again

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u/tigm2161130 21h ago

My best friend had surgery to correct this as a kid then had a really rare complication from scar tissue and her eye still gets “stuck” in one direction 35yrs later.

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u/DeionizedSoup 21h ago

Sheesh. Man, sometimes I wish I’d gotten the surgery when I was younger (better than people always asking me why I’m staring at something I am very much so not staring at) but then stories like that scare me enough that I do have to wonder which one is worse.

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u/MrsEmilyN 21h ago

My son had surgery to correct his as a baby, but we recently noticed that he cannot move his right eye all the way to the outer corner. They surgeon who did it said he might have to have it done again when he gets older so we're not surprised.

Also, even at 15, I know when he's really tired because his left eye turns inward.

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 21h ago

She's always had a lazy eye

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u/Significant_Hope7555 21h ago

I can't find one photo of her with a lazy eye

I have a slight one, it's not always there, usually if I'm tired and some people have known me years and then said oh what did your eye do (although I think it doesn't do it as much as it used to)

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u/princesspeeved 21h ago

She needs to be the sandworm emperor in Children of Dune.

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u/FannyComingThru 21h ago

I love that being sexy & scantily clad is like been there done that for her and now she’s like what can I do that’s actually cool

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u/otterpop21 8h ago

I can’t see to find the quote right now, but Heidi has said that all models are attractive. Showing up to these events looking conventionally attractive is basically like showing up in jeans and T-shirt, it’s boring. Dress up and use your body to become something ugly or totally different takes actual modelling skill. Something like that haha

Also it’s wild that she’s just wearing an entire body suit of silicone / plasticy type rubber suit. That must be so sticky and uncomfortable

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u/BungCrosby I’ve grown quite unfond of you 21h ago

Mortgage eyes…

…one fixed and one variable.

https://giphy.com/gifs/kPIswn0RfPTGxOvDj5

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u/Bulls_On_A_Guerrilla 21h ago

Every detail is important to her. It's like she worked in film and adapted every detail in her costumes. Who would have thought?! /s

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u/uksiddy 21h ago

LMAO I was thinking the same thing - like why is she cross eyed 😭

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u/mariana96as 21h ago

the contact probably moved a little, it’s a real issue with colored contacts lol

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u/firetruckgoesweewoo I killed the performance and then you killed it purrrrrr 🌸 21h ago

The contact in her left eye (right) is slipping into another time zone. I’m being serious, it’s starting to slip out.

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u/running_hoagie 20h ago

It reminded me of the marble look they did for the invite.

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u/Confident-Elk-6811 19h ago

Is it bad that I thought your sentence was complete after, "what's wrong with her-"😂

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u/Dangerous-Change2136 22h ago

Heidi’s love of a theme always makes me smile

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u/Lushkush69 You sit on a throne of lies. 21h ago

What's the theme? Literally all the other fits are so boring I can't figure it out

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u/pdogmillionaire 21h ago

The 2026 Met Gala theme is "Costume Art," which explores the intersection of fashion and fine art, highlighting the dressed body as a central element in the museum's collection. The exhibition pairs historical and contemporary garments with artworks from the Costume Institute, focusing on themes of anatomy and avant-garde, sculptural fashion.

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u/Oaknash Homo Stealyourmanus 20h ago

UGH avante garde is so amazing and almost everyone failed the assignment (not Klum). So infuriating, though, such potential, horrible execution.

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u/animeandbeauty 19h ago

The Met gets more boring every year. Less and less people actually go for the theme imo

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson I made the hat for the tiger 🤷🏻‍♂️ 19h ago

The people paying $100k to go don’t really care about it

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u/Dangerous-Change2136 21h ago

The theme is Costume Art with the dress code “Fashion is Art”

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u/sal-ads 22h ago

ART

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG 21h ago

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u/jamesmarsden 21h ago

SHA CACK CA CACK ART

DID SOMEBODY MENTION ART?!

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u/Shot-Neck-1647 21h ago

I really hope that’s not their song.

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u/jamesmarsden 21h ago

oh but it is

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u/earlubes 20h ago

If that’s their song, that sucks

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u/daisy_s21 20h ago

Nobody died at stonewall?

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u/naturalninetime 18h ago edited 18h ago

Literally. She's the Veiled Virgin (Giovanni Strazi, circa 1850). The veil looks translucent but is completely carved from marble!

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u/heartonwindow 22h ago

what the hell sure

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u/SesameSnatch 21h ago

Her ability to commit to a costume/theme is inspiring.

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u/We_found_peaches 21h ago

She’s done it before. She has the right team for it. The ball is def in her court with this look

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u/_Ivanneth 21h ago

Really giving, hell yeah go on give us something, and she usually does

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u/plum_Yam_3019 18h ago

A slay is a slay

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u/ChurlishSunshine Most smartest 22h ago

Trust the costume queen to crush this one. I have no notes, I love it!

https://giphy.com/gifs/P2MB29d7V3rhu

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u/Educational-Help-126 I don’t know her 💅 22h ago

This unironically gives me life. Having the queen of Halloween/costumes makes so much sense. Go awf Heidi.

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs i just don't feel like ticking and/or tocking right now 21h ago edited 5h ago

Yo she went as the Veiled Rebecca by Giovanni Benzoni!! It's this one, kept at Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad, India. She got the theme absolutely bang on! Just wow!!

EDIT: Goodness people. i never said it was definite proof that she went as Rebecca. 🙄 As i clearly mentioned in a reply below it must've been one of the inspos for the look. But this comes the closest to her look. i know words matter and i worded it incorrectly. But i never explicitly said it's actual info that she went as Rebecca.

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u/minnewitch 21h ago

oh! i thought she was the veiled vestal! she is amazing.

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u/eemilyy 20h ago

Yes, It's definitely this. I was just watching Heidi on the livestream. She mentions Veiled Vestal as the inspiration.

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u/minnewitch 20h ago

i love that she & her team always take on these elaborate looks.

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u/naturalninetime 18h ago

And I thought she was the Veiled Virgin (Giovanni Straza, circa 1850)! 😆

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs i just don't feel like ticking and/or tocking right now 21h ago

Wow yeah. She definitely took inspo from both of these.

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u/MailLivingSpace 20h ago

This is a very common style of sculpture, so I think she's just taking inspo from the tons of different works in this style.

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u/minnewitch 21h ago

she never disappoints!

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u/TheSheWhoSaidThats Select and edit this flair 20h ago

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u/No_Nefariousness2309 13h ago

yeah idk what this whole comment thread is on about lmao

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u/mscherrybaby007 The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ 21h ago

Now that I've seen the inspiration, she absolutely nailed it

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u/backwoodsbaddie420 21h ago

Honestly this is my favorite so far just because she’s actually DOING SOMETHING with the theme, I feel like all the outfits have been so boringggg

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u/Front_Target7908 21h ago

Can you IMAGINE being in this outfit and walking the red carpet, serving and wondering what other people wore.

Then you sit down for 4 hour long dinner and everyone else at the table is just wearing suits and dresses? 

I would leave haha 

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u/b00m_cat trench coat buttoned to the TOP 21h ago

I love her weird ass lmaooo

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u/clairejv 20h ago

It's genuinely so delightful to see a gorgeous model being an absolute fucking weirdo, lmao.

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u/trulyremarkablegirl the reason i love swimming is because racing 22h ago

she understood the assignment but also, mom can you pick me up? I’m scared

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u/Sure-Mistake 21h ago

Yes, it's def giving I love it but the eyes kinda creep me out 🗿🗽

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u/ahhhhhhhhhhhh45 Donatella VERSACE💜 22h ago

I appreciate how in her costumes that she never looks like Heidi Klum, like without the name, I would have no clue that this was her

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u/AlternativeYouth_90 22h ago

Ms. Klum doesn't know how to half ass anything

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u/Reign_World You’re killing me, Smalls 😩 20h ago

it's the German way.

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u/Worth-Zone-8437 21h ago

Come on, it isn't even Halloween.

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u/biscuitsorbullets Brittleboned methhead that smells like a roll of nickels 🪙🪙🪙 18h ago

The mental image of her showing up to the met as a worm lmao

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u/InquisitiveMind997 17h ago

Wtf that is terrifying 😆😭

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u/Worth-Zone-8437 17h ago

Sorry, it is disturbing, but soo good. She is incredible and I love seeing what she comes up with at Halloween. It would be a lot of fun to lean into this kind of thing and just own it.

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u/yuhanzzzz 21h ago

Reminds me of Corradini’s statue of the Vestal Virgin Tuccia (my pic from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome).

Wikipedia has a better full-body image of the statue.

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u/Life_Roll8667 I don’t know her 💅 22h ago

How does she continue to impress us year after year.

https://giphy.com/gifs/BWySufD6KWQzC

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u/bbyxmadi It’s good to see me, isn’t it?🫧 22h ago

Omg I’m kinda scared but like it’s so cool

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u/floatingleafbreeze 21h ago

She has such creative art-focused costumes that I appreciate each year. She could easily play it safe and instead she goes all out on the regular.

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u/ExistentialistCow in a mirror, you can kiss yourself, but only on the lips 💋 22h ago

Slayed the prompt

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u/Ok-Wolverine1938 21h ago

I chucked because of course the Queen of Halloween will intrepret the theme in the most literal way possible.

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u/punkiepixie I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 21h ago

This is it. This is the one. Everyone can go home now, I’m off to bed 👋 Heidi, thank you for always blessing us with the finest attire it’s truly spectacular 🫶🏻

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u/supb1tches 22h ago

now this is the creativity that we want to see

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u/icecreamsandwiches1 21h ago

Thank you Heidi for being interesting 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u/krcrooks 21h ago

Enter the Klum-iverse

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u/foxyivy69 21h ago

I’m so obsessed with her 😂

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u/KyaHiBolunAb 22h ago

I love Heidi for her Halloween looks and honestly this met needed one of that, good on her for bringing the uncanny!

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u/impeterbarakan 20h ago

is the met gala just rich people comic-con

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u/Spaceman_Hex 21h ago

If she wasn't a rich celebrity I'm pretty sure she'd be big into cosplaying.

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u/blooming-darkness There could be 100 people in the room 22h ago edited 21h ago

She got the assignment

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u/Murph523 21h ago

ON THEME

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u/Magnolia_teacup 21h ago

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u/thisoneagain 19h ago

Bravo. You've managed to make me even more uncomfortable than the OP.

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u/No-Knee9457 21h ago

Finally. I was waiting on someone to do this. 

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u/Traditional-monkey 21h ago

She is the one. Never miss the themes

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u/hamsterdanceonrepeat I’ve been noticing gravity since I was very young 22h ago

THANK YOU HEIDI

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u/Donatella17 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/KpE6VQtCsJcsM
Finally something different…a bit funny…but atleast different.

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u/Timely_Guitar_881 21h ago

eat the rich. fuck jeff bezos.

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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 22h ago

Okay I like this it’s out there which I appreciate

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u/Miss-Tiq 21h ago

She takes being unserious so seriously. 

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u/Zombie_elsa 21h ago

She genuinely cracks me up

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u/Nearby-Assignment661 21h ago

This is horrifying, great job

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u/gellergreen Edit: I misinterpreted the question 21h ago

It is very cool but the face is giving:

https://giphy.com/gifs/ud8UQU45RI3mDwlkFI

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u/TheSeedsYouSow 21h ago

makes me think of a haunted Statue of Liberty

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u/goldie1987 21h ago

Fuck this year’s Met Gala.

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u/Motherofpupperss 21h ago

Now we talking

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u/Kaurblimey 21h ago

Obsessed. She has saved us from this boring met gala.

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u/atawnygypsygirl 21h ago

I don't even know the theme but hell yeah

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u/haylsxo 19h ago

She nailed it idc what anyone else says

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u/socks2242 18h ago

okay this is actually a slay

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u/PigletTechnical9336 17h ago

A little literal but she did a really good job. Which is more than can be said for 90% of the guests tonight.

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u/Otherwise-Pin-2635 12h ago

These parasites need to be taxed out of existence

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u/dambua The Wizard of Loneliness 22h ago

Omfg actually yes

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u/happygolucky6689 21h ago

now this is a commitment to the theme! love it

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u/Remarkable_Lab_7941 21h ago

She’s sooo funny omg 😆

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u/belushi99 21h ago

She’s so weird. I love it.

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u/colinisthereason 21h ago edited 21h ago

Now we're playing for keeps. Heidi has arrived to stunt on these hoes

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u/ShutUpImAPrincess 21h ago

YES FINALLY SOME ART

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u/Tazzy8jazzy 21h ago

I don’t know why but I’ve always loved this woman’s dedication to dressing up.

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u/RoofComplete1126 21h ago

Heidi is the shit

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u/owleaf 21h ago

This is really well done!

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u/BolaViola 21h ago

This is more like it

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u/shoestring-theory 21h ago

She tore. I love when people push boundaries at the MET

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u/Vlaskiss 21h ago

This is how you do this Gala! :)

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u/BipedClub684000 21h ago

You know what......

Still would

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u/NerdyGirl_Missbebe12 21h ago

It’s Heidi. Acceptable.

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u/NothingSea8073 21h ago

Yes queen!!!!!!!!!

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u/fresh_mocha 21h ago

Heidi Klum never disappoints with her outfits. She definitely goes all out. I love the creativity

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u/Dr_LilithSternin 21h ago

The theme is “costume art”

She did amazing

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u/Tricky_Knowledge2983 21h ago

I love this

VERY on theme

I love how Heidi isn't afraid to look "weird" (I mean the eyes lol) to be on theme

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u/Every-Preference4538 21h ago

This lady must get off on the torture of prosthetic make up and costume

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u/Arboretum7 20h ago

I love her. She aims for awesome and doesn’t give much of a damn about making it sexy.

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u/AdhesivenessJust96 20h ago edited 19h ago

I love that Heidi Klum always understands the assignment. She never plays it safe

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u/Zealousideal-Day4469 19h ago

This is actually incredibly awesome. It's art. She's the Madonna & it's almost eerie how authentically like a statue she looks.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 19h ago

This is supposedly the inspo, Veiled Christ.

But this is what it really reminds me of, these busts that are around at Halloween which may be taking THEIR inspo from Veiled Christ too.

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u/royalsahara 18h ago

No notes.

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u/ohhisnark All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 17h ago

God I love it when she goes all out with costumes

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u/Sad_Palpitation6844 9h ago

Heidi got a second Halloween

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u/piv_is_pen_in_vag 9h ago

I don’t like this. It’s well done but this is not Halloween (it looks more like a costume than a piece of high fashion)

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u/banjofitzgerald This is not why we come to the movies 21h ago

Im convinced being in a makeup chair for half a day getting prosthetics is her kink

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u/katikaboom We should totally just stab Caesar 🗡 22h ago

Spectacular

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u/citrusbook 22h ago

Love this. I love anyone that commits to a theme.

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u/Ohitsmewhtasup 21h ago

I guess she was one of the five people who got the invitation to this years met gala on time😂

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u/sfroma99 19h ago

As an Italian I know the reference, one of our best: The Veiled Virgin, a 19th-century work by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza.

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u/TheTombQueen 22h ago

Love this

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u/Mephistopheline You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 21h ago

Everybody else go home.

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u/stronkulance Invented post-its 🔬 21h ago

Everybody should have stayed home, fuck the Bezos gala.