How Eileen Gu’s Otherworldly Bubble Dress Came to Life at the 2026 Met Gala
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Matthew Velasco
26d ago· 4 min readNews
Eileen Gu takes ELLE behind the scenes of her mystifying Iris van Herpen look from the 2026 Met Gala, which featured 15,000 glass bubbles.
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