Met Gala Power Rankings: Connor Storrie, Sabrina Carpenter Win Red Carpet
Jennie in Chanel, Connor Storrie in Saint Laurent and Sabrina Carpenter in Dior on the Met Gala carpet.
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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 point, “This feels like a lot” — you were not wrong. The sheer volume of arrivals on the museum steps felt overwhelming at times, especially for an event that had been fraught with controversy before the first guest arrived. But the abundance of stars and the brands they wore also set a record for earned engagement on a red carpet.
The results 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 new record for red carpet impact, surpassing the 2025 Met Gala, which totaled $1.3 billion. That number far outpaces every other red carpet of the year, including the March 15 Academy Awards.
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For all the promises made on social media to boycott this year’s Met Gala, the opposite seems to have occurred, judging by the numbers across the five categories tracked in the Power Rankings: fashion, top five women and top five men on the carpet, jewelry and watch brands, and accessories. Among fashion brands, for example, the top-10 labels garnered $349.4 million in earned engagement this year, as opposed to $253.4 million at the 2025 Met Gala, an increase of almost 38 percent.
And while it might be easy to assume that the uproar over the event’s honorary co-chairs, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, may have impacted the numbers, the statistics don’t bear that out, especially for one historic fashion house in particular — but more on that in a moment.
The Met Gala is the final event of the 2026 spring season for THR’s Red Carpet Power Rankings, which also measure earned engagement of the five major broadcast awards shows between January and March: Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Grammy Awards, Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards), and the Academy Awards. Recognized as the industry standard for modern brand measurement, Launchmetrics employs its proprietary Media Impact Value algorithm (MIV) to analyze and rank both brands and stars across the five key categories. The Launchmetrics MIV algorithm assigns a monetary value to every post, social media interaction and editorial story to determine a brand’s influence and earned engagement.
Ultimately, Monday night’s results prove that while the Met Gala may have whipped up a frenzy of negative advance attention, the style conversations that ensued overshadowed any controversy in the end. The rankings also confirm that at least two first-time Met Gala attendees truly have impacted the zeitgeist. Let’s dig into the numbers.
Top 10 Fashion Brands: Saint Laurent Brings the Star Power
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Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello arrived Monday night with an impressive roster of stars that included Hailey Bieber, Doja Cat, Blackpink’s Rosé, Charlie xcx, Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie and Zoë Kravitz, on the creative director’s arm as co-chairs of the night’s host committee. Fold in Cara Delevingne, Anja Rubik and the return of Kate Moss, back at the Met Gala for the first time since 2023, and that’s a well-curated list. From Kravitz’s black lace gown to Rosé’s dove-embellished strapless dress and Storrie’s shoulder-baring look, it’s easy to understand why Saint Laurent took the top 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 high marks. But Indian fashion model Bhavitha Mandava, who famously opened Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show in December, also garnered a wealth of commentary for her Met Gala ensemble, a sheer blouse with silk pants made to look like jeans, a look similar to what Mandava wore to open that Chanel show. Both the trompe l’oeil effect of her trousers and the celebration of that December moment could be considered artful — though without any backstory, Mandava’s look rub