Teyana Taylor’s Plunging Sheer Zuhair Murad Feather Gown Owns the VMA Carpet
Nominee and presenter Teyana Taylor arrived at the 2026 MTV VMAs in a sheer black Zuhair Murad couture coat-gown with a dramatic plunge, thigh-high slit, and feathered collar, cuffs and hem.
Teyana Taylor did not ease onto the 2026 MTV VMAs carpet — she flocked in with feathers, a sheer black coat-gown, and a plunge that made every photographer forget the next name on the call sheet.
On Sunday at the Peacock Theater, the Oscar-nominated One Battle After Another star — also a Best Collaboration nominee for Hard Part with Lucky Daye — wore a look from Zuhair Murad’s Fall 2026 couture: a sheer black embroidered coat-gown with feather hem, cuffs and collar, a dramatic plunging neckline, front thigh-high slit, and allover shimmer on the crisscross patterning. Styling duo Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald locked the arrival. Two sculptural buns. Smoky eye. Soft Scoop raunch — Facebook-safe, still a full group-chat event.
WWD, ELLE, HELLO!, and Red Carpet Fashion Awards all clocked the plumage-and-plunge combo as one of the night’s defining sheer moments, next to Taylor Swift’s Tamara Ralph mesh-back gown and Chloe Bailey’s mirrored translucent number. Murad’s couture brief was “a heroine for troubled times” — Teyana translated that into red-carpet voltage.
She was both nominee and presenter on the night Snoop Dogg hosted, while Madonna stacked seven awards and Swift took three including Artist Director Honors. The carpet, though, belonged to the sheer brigade — and Teyana’s feathers led the parade.
Scoop’s verdict? Plunge: illegal. Feathers: locked. Teyana Taylor just made Zuhair Murad couture look like a VMA press release.