Cardi B gave Marc Jacobs’ Kiki platform a surrealist Met Gala turn on Monday, bringing what appeared to be the designer’s exaggerated footwear language to a custom look that played with doll-like proportion from shoulder to toe.
While the shoes were mostly hidden once she reached the carpet, they were visible as she left The Mark Hotel: a custom pair of pink knee-high Marc Jacobs platform boots in the Kiki family, extending the same exaggerated scale as her lace-and-padding construction.
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The boots featured a rounded, inflated toe, thick front platform and high block heel that curved inward at the back. Red lacing ran up the front of the pale pink shaft, giving the pastel leather a more graphic, almost corseted finish. The height and volume put the pair in Jacobs’ current platform vocabulary, where doll-like proportion and severe height have become a recurring part of the designer’s footwear language.
Cardi B’s custom Marc Jacobs look was based on a silhouette from the designer’s fall 2025 collection, where Hans Bellmer’s disjointed Surrealist dolls informed the padded proportions. On Cardi B, sheer black floral lace covered a nude base, with flesh-toned padded forms widening the shoulders and exaggerating the lower body into rounded, segmented shapes. Kollin Carter styled the look.
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Cardi B made her Met Gala debut in 2018, arriving pregnant in a jewel-encrusted Moschino gown by Jeremy Scott that hugged her baby bump in a widely praised red carpet moment. She returned in 2019 in a burgundy Thom Browne gown, and in 2022 in a body-hugging gold Versace look that channeled the “Gilded Glamour” dress code. At the 2023 gala, the year the theme honored Karl Lagerfeld, she arrived in three separate looks, beginning with a structured pink-and-black tulle gown by Chenpeng Studio. In 2024, she wore an all-black Windowsen gown of such extravagant scale that she required multiple dress handlers to navigate the carpet. Most recently, she attended the 2025 gala in a custom oxblood Burberry look with sculpted shoulders and a dramatic train.
The 2026 Met Gala took place on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This year’s exhibition, “Costume Art,” celebrated fashion as an art form, with a dress code of “Fashion Is Art.” The event was co-chaired by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos serving as honorary chairs. The annual benefit raises funds for the Met’s Costume Institute.