Heidi Klum brought her love of Halloween costumes to the 2026 Met Gala. Klum, who throws one of Hollywood’s most famous Halloween parties every year, got into the spooky spirit to honor the event’s “Fashion is Art” dress code this year. The 52-year-old supermodel and “Project Run way” host arrived at the gala dressed as a marble statue in a custom look created by her longtime Halloween collaborator, Oscar-nominated make-up artist Mike Marino, Klum revealed on Instagram. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 04: Heidi Klum attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images) The look was inspired by classical sculptures such as “Veiled Vestal” by Raffaele Monti. Marino “transformed fabric into sculpture, manipulating latex and spandex with extraordinary precision to mirror the stillness, delicacy, and illusion of carved marble,” Klum explained. Klum appeared to be carved out of marble and then draped with a gauzy white sheet. She wore ancient-looking sandals on her feet, a simple wreath on her head and creepy looking contact lenses. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 04: Heidi Klum attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Klum also expressed her enthusiasm for this year’s gala dress code. “I love fashion, I love art, and I especially love when the two collide,” she wrote. Klum’s Met Gala look isn’t too far a cry from her 2025 Halloween costume. The model transformed into Medusa, the terrifying figure from Greek mythology who has snakes instead of hair. So frightening looking was Medusa that anyone who dared look at her turned to stone. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 31: Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum’s 24th Annual Halloween Party presented by Butterfinger and Huluween on Disney+ at Hard Rock Hotel New York on Oct. 31, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Heidi Klum Halloween) For the costume, Klum wore a prosthetic forked tongue and had fake snakes moving around on her head. Scales covered her face and body and she wore bright green contact lenses. Klum’s husband Tom Kaulitz walked the red carpet with her dressed as one of Medusa’s victims: a stone figure. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 04: Heidi Klum attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/MG26/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Klum told People magazine in 2025 that she sees creating her costumes each year as a kind of “art.” “I never take the easy way out,” she said. “People say, ‘Why the heck are you doing this?’ I do it for the art of it, of transformation, of surprising people also. It’s like a life performance art thing in a way because you see so much AI and things are being photographed, repatched, this, that and the other.” “I always try to come up with something that is giving people an ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ and a wow because I want to inspire people to also do something creative,” she shares. This story first appeared on TODAY.com. More from TODAY: The Best Dressed Stars of the 2026 Met Gala Blue Ivy Carter, 14, Becomes One of the Youngest Met Gala Attendees — See the Best Pics Beyoncé Attends Met Gala For the First Time in a Decade Alongside Daughter Blue Ivy ...read more read less