Did you see photos of the inimitable Bad Bunny at the Met Gala? Old Bunny! Or, as one writer described him: Bad Rabbit.

Looking very much like a Diego Velázquez portrait of an aging Madrid nobleman, with a manicured gray beard and mustache, age-spotted hands, and elegant cane, 32-year-old Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio added about 50 well-lived years to his profile. Bad Bunny’s past Met Gala looks have included a backless blazer and a 26-foot flowered train, and a boilersuit paired with a bejeweled bouffant. This year, he wore a classic all-black suit (custom Zara), with—because he’s still Bad Bunny and gender norms must at least be somewhat flouted—an oversized pussy bow around his neck (a reference to designer Charles James’s 1947 gown “Bustle,” which is part of the Costume Institute’s permanent collection). Prosthetics designer (and many time Best Makeup Academy Award nominee) Mike Marino was the artist behind every age spot vein and crease on Bad Bunny's face, neck, and hands. (Marino incidentally also did Heidi Klum’s makeup and prosthetics for this year’s Met, creating both an octogenarian and a Vestal Virgin, two categories of people one is least likely to see on a red carpet.)

Obviously, it was a considered choice, as the Met Costume Institute’s 2026 exhibition focuses on the relationship between fashion and the many forms of the human body. For the exhibition, the museum even created 25 new mannequins to include amongst its usual sylphlike models—there are larger bodies, dwarf bodies, pregnant bodies, bodies with prosthetics, bodies in wheelchairs, and yes the aging bodies rarely seen in the context of fashion. From the exhibition catalog: “Perhaps reflecting our fear of having to face our own mortality, the youth-oriented fashion industry has traditionally ignored the aged body.” Perhaps?