Vogue Arabia | How This Palestinian-Canadian Artist is Bringing Her Voice to the Met Museum

Samar Hejazi reflects on her landmark commission for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the significance of Arab visibility on fashion’s most global stage and how her mirrored sculptural works quietly challenge ideas of identity, perception and belonging.

When Dubai-based Palestinian-Canadian artist Samar Hejazi first learned that her work had been selected for the Costume Institute’s Spring 2026 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she didn’t allow herself to dwell on the scale of it.