Kim Kardashian’s Allen Jones Body Armour Look At The 2026 Met Gala

For the 2026 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian partnered with Allen Jones, the British artist closely associated with the Pop Art movement.

The sculpted portion of the look nods to his earlier work, particularly Body Armour from 1978, originally created for an unreleased film and later revisited in imagery featuring Kate Moss in 2013. That reference point is clear in the moulded, high-gloss breastplate, which reads as both sculpture and garment.

Whitaker Malem collaborated with Jones to cast the mould, creating the breastplate with an attached leather skirt, hand-painted by the artist. The result merges Jones’ sculptural and painted language with Whitaker Malem’s leatherwork, giving the piece a hybrid quality that sits between fashion and object.

It would be easy to reduce this to another body-focused look from Kim, but that misses the point. Her public image has long been tied to her silhouette, and here that idea is pushed into something more formalised. The body isn’t just highlighted—it’s reworked, framed, and presented as a constructed form, which brings it closer to the “Costume Art” brief.

The involvement of Nadia Lee Cohen as creative director sharpens that perspective. There’s a clear visual intention running through this, from the finish of the surface to the way the skirt falls away from the form, keeping the focus exactly where it needs to be.

Custom Christian Louboutin Merci Allen pumps completed her look.

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