Here Are Some of the Most Daring Looks From the Met Gala

Met Gala guests from Beyoncé to Naomi Osaka to Emma Chamberlain did not play it safe this year for the Met Gala, delivering custom works of art in honor of the dress code "Fashion is art," the AP reports.

• Beyoncé left the cowboy hat at home and dazzled in a custom Olivier Rousteing sculptural skeleton dress with a cream and dust blue feathered train fitted with a diamond crown for "Queen Bey." The Grammy winner, husband Jay-Z, and daughter Blue Ivy stopped to pose as a unit on the carpet together.
• Osaka stunned in a dramatic Robert Wun white sculptural fitted dress with exaggerated shoulders and adorned with red feathers and a matching headpiece. To complete her dramatic look, Osaka's hands were dipped in dripping red paint. A similar look by Wun sits inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibit, "Costume Art." On the Met steps, Osaka opened her dress and removed her headpiece for a grand reveal underneath. She wowed in a sleek red beaded gown embellished with the form of a body.

• Chamberlain arrived in a breathtaking Mugler by Miguel Castro Freitas hand-painted dress. The star was dipped in a rainbow of colors from her décolletage down to the spiral train of her body-hugging dress with fringe falling down the cuffs of the long-sleeve gown.
• When guests were not wearing art, they were making references to it. Actor and author Lena Dunham collaborated with Valentino designer Alessandro Michele for her red feathered dress to depict his interpretation of "Judith Slaying Holofernes." As a child, Dunham told Vogue, she would visit the Met museum on Sundays and admire the paintings in the renaissance section.
• Stars also celebrated the dress code with their accessories. Actor and fashion muse Gwendoline Christie playfully covered her face on the carpet with a mask of her own face while pop star Katy Perry opened and closed her fencing-like mask on the carpet to smile at the cameras.
• Venus Williams, who wore a sparkling black off-the-shoulder gown with a dazzling bejeweled neckpiece in homage to a painting of herself done by Robert Pruitt for the National Portrait Gallery, was not the only guest to break the fourth wall with an artistic reference to herself. It was a trend of the night with gala host committee members Amy Sherald in Thom Browne donning a look inspired by her own work of art and pop star Sabrina Carpenter wearing a Dior dress designed with film strips from the 1954 movie Sabrina.
• Madonna makes any carpet her stage. A group of women circled around Madonna in colorful dresses as they held onto sheer fabric wrapped around her pirate ship headpiece on the carpet. And Janelle Monáe knows how to deliver drama on a red carpet. The performer delivered a message with her sculptural art piece that featured cords overtaken by moss wrapped around her form.
• Bad Bunny went full costume, carrying a cane and dressing up as an older version of himself with gray hair and special effects makeup to add years to his face. And supermodel Heidi Klum, known for taking her Halloween costume to new heights, brought that same dedication to the Met Gala as she arrived as a draped statue.
• In typical fashion, singer and fashion powerhouse Rihanna shut down the carpet as the final guest to arrive much earlier than in years past. Dressed in a metallic cocoon-like dress, Rihanna emerged onto the carpet with her partner A$AP Rocky.

(This year's gala is a bit controversial.)