Tyla Went Full Peacock in Custom Valentino at the 2026 Met Gala

[lo-fi music]

Hello.

Hi.

Hello, Vogue, it is Tyla.

Come and get ready with me for the Met 2026.

[lo-fi music]

[Speaker] You literally

just take a piece of chicken

and then you take the little spoon.

I like to do, like, a healthy scoop.

[Tyla] A healthy scoop.

[Both] Cheers.

I don't know.

It's just like a salty chicken now.

I mean, it's cool.

[crew laughing]

This year, I feel like I'm more calm.

The previous years I was like,

oh, my Lord.

Met, Met, Met.

This year I'm just like,

hmm, Met.

I'm with my usual glam squad, so, vibes,

easy, chill.

And it's a fun theme.

It's always fun seeing the people

that just go for it.

The people that come dressed as frames,

dressed with big balls on their head.

Like, they just go all out

and I'm always excited to go home after the night

and then, like,

see everyone's looks.

I always just liked dressing up

and playing dress up like with my sisters.

And my mother and I would always

watch the Met Gala

and, like, rate everyone's outfits.

But I think before

I started getting invited

to fashion shows and stuff,

I did not get it.

I'm not gonna lie.

Like I would see, like,

crazy outfits and be like,

really?

Like you're not really gonna wear that out.

But then when I started getting invited

to fashion shows

and I started learning, like,

from stylists and whatnot,

I just really fell in love

with how it is its own form of art.

So Valentino,

when I was speaking to Alessandro,

he was very inspired by the artist Erté.

I've never come across the artist before.

They were all beautiful,

but I was drawn to the peacock one

because, I don't know,

I just love animalistic things

and like rough things and feathers

and I'm really moving that way

for the album and everything,

so it just made sense.

Peacocks show their feathers

to display their beauty,

and fashion is inspired by just the world

and, like, nature

and things that, like, God created.

The earth is kind of God's artwork, so.

Hm, I'm eating this answer!

I went to his show.

Insane.

Like, literally when I saw the show,

I was like, yeah,

I wanna go to Valentino.

And we just did a lot of back and forth,

like with the color of the dress

'cause I really wanted something that would pop.

And I've been into turquoise

and, like, toxic colors and neons,

and I just feel like the blue was so perfect.

Initially,

the things hanging were like tassels

and then they managed

to make peacock feathers out of it.

When I wear the look,

I really feel like a statue.

You know, like goddess vibes, like,

literally like an artwork.

I love when my body is the outfit.

I don't know, it's just so Tyla,

and it just fell into place so nicely,

you know?

So I'm excited.

[calm music]

Hi, I'm Ronnie.

I'm Tyla's stylist.

I am styling her for the first time for the Met,

so it's a special night.

This look is sort of like a custom version

of a couture look that we saw in Paris.

And the collection was incredible

and it was very dramatic,

but we wanted to incorporate

his inspirations right now.

Only Tyla could wear something like this,

like it's very daring,

it's very revealing,

it's very body,

but it's also still chic and fashion

and elevated

and still very Valentino.

And like she said,

like, yes,

the body is the outfit.

As you can see,

there's not much fabric here,

but the way that it sits on her body

and the way that it accentuates everything

really fuses the whole costume art,

body art,

as the theme suggests into this, like,

very high fashion moment.

[Tyla] I like the way the beading is, like,

wrapped around my actual arm.

I love how the front just joins at the bottom

and it's just perfect for the waist.

Like it makes my waist look even more snatched.

So, ooh, I'm excited for that.

And the shoe.

Mm, sexy.

This is Esther on makeup.

So the vibe is feathers

and peacock.

The dress really is my inspo,

so I'm just plucking some colors from the dress

and putting it on her face

in our signature style.

Before I bring my ideas,

I like to hear hers

and just see where we can meet in the middle.

Thank you.

Okay, here we have Coca Michelle.

She's done my nails all three times

I've gone to the Met.

We're going based off the feathers,

peacock vibes,

and the theme is body

and what better way to represent it

than do a really crazy silhouette?

A*POP vibes.

A*POP is my sophomore album.

It's coming 24th of July.

Stream, buy,

pre-save is out now.

I feel like this album I wanted to make

to, like, satisfy my inner child.

I'm from literally South Africa,

like, you know,

I grew up around nature,

I grew up around animals,

I grew up around just that feeling

and I've always been, you know, a tiger.

My fans are tigers,

and we all just embody that animalistic,

imperfect vibe.

The nails, for sure I love.

I don't even know what you did, girl,

but she took 10 hours.

Yep, 10 hours.

10 hours to make these nails,

so they're special.

This is the Chris.

The Chris is crazy.

So explain what you're doing to my head.

This year's Met Gala, of course,

is costume art.

Yusef and I wanted to keep it soft,

but something with structure.

And of course,

we're riding this flow of A*POP,

so we wanna introduce the newest version of Tyla.

We know her for her curly tresses

and we see it in side parts,

we see it down,

so now we pull it up

so we can, like,

really view the beauty,

which is her.

Hey, everybody,

this is the final look.

I love it.

I'm feeling like a goddess artwork.

And yeah, thank you for getting ready with me.

Thank you, Vogue.

See you at the Met.

[chill music]

[photographers yelling]