Met Gala Power Rankings: Connor Storrie, Sabrina Carpenter Win Red Carpet

If you watched the livestream of Monday’s Met Gala arrivals on the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and thought at any level, “This feels like a lot” — you weren’t fallacious. The sheer quantity of arrivals on the museum steps felt overwhelming at occasions, particularly for an occasion that had been fraught with controversy earlier than the primary visitor arrived. But the abundance of stars and the manufacturers they wore additionally set a file for earned engagement on a crimson carpet.

The outcomes are in for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Red Carpet Power Rankings, an exclusive partnership with data firm Launchmetrics, revealing that earned engagement for the evening totaled $1.56 billion — that’s a brand new file for crimson carpet impression, surpassing the 2025 Met Gala, which totaled $1.3 billion. That quantity far outpaces each different crimson carpet of the yr, together with the March 15 Academy Awards.

For all the guarantees made on social media to boycott this yr’s Met Gala, the alternative appears to have occurred, judging by the numbers throughout the 5 classes tracked within the Power Rankings: vogue, prime 5 ladies and prime 5 males on the carpet, jewellery and watch manufacturers, and equipment. Among vogue manufacturers, for instance, the top-10 labels garnered $349.4 million in earned engagement this yr, versus $253.4 million on the 2025 Met Gala, a rise of just about 38 p.c.

And whereas it is perhaps simple to imagine that the uproar over the occasion’s honorary co-chairs, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his spouse, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, could have impacted the numbers, the statistics don’t bear that out, particularly for one historic vogue home particularly — however extra on that in a second.

The Met Gala is the ultimate occasion of the 2026 spring season for THR’s Red Carpet Power Rankings, which additionally measure earned engagement of the 5 main broadcast awards exhibits between January and March: Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Grammy Awards, Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards), and the Academy Awards. Recognized because the trade normal for contemporary model measurement, Launchmetrics employs its proprietary Media Impact Value algorithm (MIV) to investigate and rank each manufacturers and stars throughout the 5 key classes. The Launchmetrics MIV algorithm assigns a financial worth to each put up, social media interplay and editorial story to find out a model’s affect and earned engagement.

Ultimately, Monday evening’s outcomes show that whereas the Met Gala could have whipped up a frenzy of destructive advance consideration, the model conversations that ensued overshadowed any controversy in the long run. The rankings additionally verify that not less than two first-time Met Gala attendees really have impacted the zeitgeist. Let’s dig into the numbers.

Top 10 Fashion Brands: Saint Laurent Brings the Star Power

Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello arrived Monday evening with a formidable roster of stars that included Hailey Bieber, Doja Cat, Blackpink’s Rosé, Charlie xcx, Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie and Zoë Kravitz, on the artistic director’s arm as co-chairs of the evening’s host committee. Fold in Cara Delevingne, Anja Rubik and the return of Kate Moss, again on the Met Gala for the primary time since 2023, and that’s a well-curated record. From Kravitz’s black lace robe to Rosé’s dove-embellished strapless costume and Storrie’s shoulder-baring look, it’s simple to grasp why Saint Laurent took the highest spot with $68.5 million in MIV.

In second place with an MIV of $55.1 million, Chanel‘s list was equally powerful and included Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Blackpink’s Jennie, A$AP Rocky, and Gracie Abrams, all of whom earned excessive marks. But Indian vogue mannequin Bhavitha Mandava, who famously opened Chanel’s Métiers d’Art present in December, additionally garnered a wealth of commentary for her Met Gala ensemble, a sheer shirt with silk pants made to appear like denims, a glance just like what Mandava wore to open that Chanel present. Both the trompe l’oeil impact of her trousers and the celebration of that December second may very well be thought-about suave — although with none backstory, Mandava’s look rubbed vogue followers the fallacious approach as far too informal for the Met Gala, chatter that additionally could have contributed to the model’s sturdy exhibiting.

The reverse was true, nevertheless, for Schiaparelli, which with an MIV of $19.9 million completed in a stunning tenth place — a lot so, Launchmetrics rechecked the numbers simply to make certain. Daniel Roseberry designed the Schiaparelli “falling” robe worn by Kylie Jenner, which was the label’s prime look of the evening. Sánchez Bezos, in the meantime, earned lower than half in MIV of Jenner’s numbers — which stunned anybody who monitored the frenzy of social media that adopted her look on the carpet in a navy Schiaparelli robe that was a unfastened homage to John Singer Sargent’s 1884 Portrait of Madame X, which has resided within the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1916. Then once more, Jenner presently boasts 385 million Instagram followers, and it’s robust to beat that affect, regardless of who you is perhaps.

Top Five Women on the Carpet: Sabrina Carpenter Pays Tribute to Her Favorite Film

Amid attendees who selected work and sculpture for his or her Met Gala appears to be like, Sabrina Carpenter and Dior artistic director Jonathan Anderson opted as a substitute to have a good time the artwork of cinema along with her Met Gala costume, which was crafted largely of 35mm strips from a black-and-white movie. Even higher, it wasn’t simply any film; it was Sabrina, the 1954 Billy Wilder movie starring Audrey Hepburn, solely her second movie after her Oscar-winning flip in 1953’s Roman Holiday. Carpenter famous on the Met Gala carpet that it was her all-time favourite movie.

Also on the record: Blackpink members Lisa Manobal in a Robert Wun design, Jisoo in a floral-inspired Dior, and Jennie in a mosaic-like beaded Chanel robe captured second, third and fourth place, which can be a sworn statement to the continued energy of the Okay-pop woman group. But don’t depend out Blackpink’s rivals Aespa and its acknowledged chief, Karina, a Prada ambassador who took the fifth spot in a {custom} white satin beaded and embroidered robe and black satin night cape. The evening’s sturdy numbers are maybe most evident right here: Karina completed within the number-five spot with $17.8 million in MIV, a wholesome outcome that simply might have earned a first-place end at different high-profile carpets.

Top Five Men on the Carpet: Connor Storrie Owned the Night

A cursory assessment of social media this week reveals that a couple of stars proceed to take pleasure in consideration from their Met Gala appears to be like 4 days later — and chief amongst them is Connor Storrie in Saint Laurent, ending first amongst males on the carpet with an MIV of $14 million. With his suave show of androgyny on the museum steps, Storrie has spawned a wealth of movies exhibiting the second he eliminated his tuxedo jacket to disclose his shoulder-baring Lavallière prime in polka-dot silk muslin. (The prime takes its title from the Duchess of La Vallière, who between 1661 and 1667 was the official mistress of King Louis XIV.) His jacket removing additionally allowed for a greater have a look at the Tiffany & Co. brooch on Storrie’s excessive neckline, a element that additionally put the actor and the jewellery home within the number-five spot on the record with an MIV of $3.6 million.

Among different males on the carpet, A$AP Rocky was a pleasant shock in second place, sporting a Chanel design that included a pink wool gown with black satin tuxedo lapels, a {custom} look by artistic director Matthieu Blazy that additionally fueled hypothesis about when the long-lasting French home will go all-in on menswear. Rounding out the highest 5 males: Bad Bunny incomes $8.67 million in MIV in a Zara swimsuit and prosthetics that remodeled him into what he would possibly appear like as an 85-year-old man, an homage to the “Aging Body” part of the museum’s Costume Art exhibition; and Storrie’s co-star, Hudson Williams, who captured $7.9 million in MIV sporting a Balenciaga look designed by artistic director Pierpaolo Piccioli, who took his cue from a 1947 matador jacket that resides in the home’s archives.

Did we point out each Storrie and Williams had been first-time Met Gala attendees? That is perhaps a troublesome act to comply with — then once more, season two of Heated Rivalry is scheduled to premiere in April 2027, mere weeks earlier than subsequent yr’s Met Gala.

Top 10 Jewelry & Watch Brands: Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari Sparkled

The Met Gala might have been referred to as the battle of the bling, with two jewellery homes vying for the highest spot: Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari. Ultimately the previous edged into the number-one place dressing a cadre of stars that spanned the spectrum. In addition to the aforementioned Storrie, Tiffany & Co. diamonds additionally had been seen on Carey Mulligan, Chase Sui Wonders, Rosé, Gabrielle Union and husband Dwyane Wade, and Stevie Nicks, attending the Met Gala for the primary time and showing on the steps in a navy John Galliano x Zara robe and diamond jewels that included a platinum pendant necklace adorned with diamonds and a 14-carat crystal opal. The selections resulted in Tiffany & Co.’s first-place end, with $12.9 million in earned engagement.

Bulgari adopted intently behind thanks to 2 stars particularly: The Devil Wears Prada 2‘s Anne Hathaway, who drew raves for her Michael Kors gown embellished with details inspired by Grecian urns and hand-painted by Kors’ lifelong good friend, artist Peter McGough. Among Hathaway’s Bulgari jewels was the sculptural high-jewelry Vimini necklace in 18-karat yellow gold with pavé-set diamonds, an ideal pairing with the robe. Maluma, in the meantime, wore a timepiece that had simply debuted on the annual Watches & Wonders commerce honest in Geneva two weeks prior: the ultra-thin Octo Finissimo in titanium in a brand new 37mm case measurement. Williams and Manobal likewise accomplished their appears to be like with Bulgari jewels, leading to the home’s second-place end with $10.2 million in MIV.

Carpenter accented her Dior with Chopard jewels, whereas Cartier’s jewellery and watches had been seen on stars that included Rami Malek, Jisoo, Jon Batiste and Anderson .Paak, and Swarovski created one-of-a-kind crystal-art designs for Venus Williams and EJAE. Jacob & Co.’s high-wattage designs, in the meantime had been seen on Dwayne Johnson, Tyla and Russell Wilson, and Lorraine Schwartz’s diamonds had been seen on Sánchez Bezos, Blake Lively and philanthropist Isha Ambani. If you’re questioning about Kantilal Chhotalal, Ambani mixed that home’s jewels with Lorraine Schwartz’s diamonds to finish her {custom} look by Gaurav Gupta; entrepreneur Mona Patel likewise wore items by the Mumbai-based jewellery home.

Top Five Accessories: Judith Leiber Gets an Assist from Vogue

Judith Leiber Couture offered its signature baggage to 9 stars for the Met Gala, ensuing within the label’s first-place end and an MIV of $2.3 million. Among the evening’s headlines was the shock look of Lively, sporting Atelier Versace and carrying a {custom} Judith Leiber minaudière that includes art work from every of her 4 youngsters, a element mentioned in a Vogue story in regards to the actress’s look. Carey Mulligan, Angela Bassett, Sutton Foster and sisters Emily and Felicity Blunt additionally carried night clutches by the long-lasting model.

As proof of the facility of social media and tagging, Italian footwear model Le Silla earned its second-place completed on account of one lady: mannequin and influencer Georgina Rodriguez, who posted a number of occasions to her 71.9 million Instagram followers to spotlight each factor of her look, from her {custom} Ludovic de Saint Sernin corset robe and veil to her Chopard diamond earrings and ring and her Le Silla Embrace platform sandals in silver. Rodriguez introduced within the lion’s share of Le Silla’s second-place end, with an MIV of $1.3 million.

Only then do Power Rankings accent dynamos Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo bounce into third and fourth place — with MIVs of $1.26 million and $1.24 million, respectively — with Louboutin outfitting stars that included Carpenter, Colman Domingo, Janelle Monae, Keke Palmer and Kim Kardashian. Jimmy Choo designs had been seen on A-listers that included Tessa Thompson, Daisy Edgar Jones, Simone Ashley, Emily Blunt and Blue Ivy Carter, who wore the label’s Cinderella-like Alia pumps, absolutely embellished with crystals. Finally, Stuart Weitzman’s fifth-place end and an MIV of $1.03 million could be credited to attendees that embody Angel Reese, Lux Pascal and Rachel Zegler, in addition to Emma Chamberlain, roundly agreed to be among the many evening’s best-dressed in {custom} Mugler, which was paired with Weitzman’s Nudist Hollywood platform sandal in a custom-dyed navy.

Next up for the THR x Launchmetrics Power Rankings: the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, set for Monday, September 14 on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.