Why Zendaya Missed Met Gala 2026

He then shares his team’s vision with the fashion brand, which creates a design based on their “house codes” as well as the client’s personal style.

While Zendaya always pulls out all the stops for the Met Gala, her red carpet dressing has looked a bit different as of late. She embraced a “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” theme for her fashion while promoting her wedding film The Drama alongside Robert Pattinson earlier this year.

Of course, she recently had her own trip down the aisle IRL, as Law revealed in March that she had privately married Tom Holland. 

And their family has shown the Spider-Man: Brand New Day costars nothing but love, with Tom’s mother NikkiHolland subtly sharing her support for the couple last month.

The photographer tapped likeon a Instagram reel that praised how Zendaya and Robert carried themselves during the press tourfor The Drama.

“Everyone else acting a little too single while promoting their romance movies,” read the caption, before the video cut to several shots of The Drama costars playfully joking with one another, writing, “Meanwhile Zendaya and Robert proving you can still vibe without disrespecting your partner.”

Indeed, Zendaya finds creative ways to honor Tom, like when the 29-year-old stepped out at the April 7 Los Angeles premiere of Euphoriawith her “T” tattoo on full display. 

The sweet nod is just one of many Tom and Zendaya—who confirmed their engagement in January 2025—have exchanged over the years, especially onceZendaya realized that Tom was the one for her. 

“I think sometimes, at least in my personal experience, I found that— sometimes people can get nervous around people,” the Challengers star toldNew York Times’ Modern Love podcast on the April 1 episode, “but there’s a certain feeling that I was able to experience when I knew that this is my person, because I didn’t.”

“I don’t feel nervous, I feel really peaceful and I feel really calm,” she continued. “And feel like, ‘Oh, I actually feel more nervous when I’m away from you than when I’m with you.’ And that’s when I was like, ‘Ah, that’s a good sign, that’s me listening to intuition.’”

And Zendaya knew early on that Tom had a calming effect on her, recalling their 2017 chemistry read for Spider-Man: Homecoming during which he helped her feel more comfortable “by being a nice person.”

“Having to do a chemistry read for a big movie like that—it’s like, you really want the job and all these kind of things,” she said. “And yeah, he was really lovely then.”

For a look at more stars at the 2026 Met Gala, read on.