Exclusive | Meet the Met Gala design engineer who adorned Janelle Monáe’s costume with mesmerizing robo-butterflies

Exclusive | Meet the Met Gala design engineer who adorned Janelle Monáe’s costume with mesmerizing robo-butterflies

Janelle Monáe’s 2026 Met Gala ensemble was more than just a pretty dress. It was a moving work of art.  And Cameron Hughes was the one who got it going.  “I made the four living butterflies and two dragonflies featured on Janelle Monáe’s Met Gala gown by Christian Siriano,” Hughes, 32, an animatronics engineer from Manhattan, exclusively … Read more