Met Gala 2025 Theme and Co-Chairs Revealed: Everything We Know
The 2025 Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will take inspiration from the work of Monica L. Miller and explore the legacy of Black dandyism
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The 2025 Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will take inspiration from the work of author Monica L. Miller and explore the legacy of Black dandyism.
On Wednesday, October 9, the Costume Institute announced that the exhibition title and theme of next yearâs Met Gala is âSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style.â
The dress code for the event was later revealed on Tuesday, February 4, on an episode of Good Morning America. Celebrities are advised to wear something âTailored for You.â
The exhibit was inspired by Monica L. Millerâs 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, and will feature âgarments, paintings, photographs and more,â per People.
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The Costume Institute will also explore âthe indelible style of Black men in the context of dandyism, from the 18th century through present day.â Miller will work alongside museum creator Andrew Bolton to help create the exhibit.
The co-chairs are style stars in their own right and will include actor Colman Domingo, race car driver Lewis Hamilton, rappers A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams, and, of course, CondĂŠ Nast creative director and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. NBA star LeBron James will also serve as honorary co-chair.
According to Vogue, the exhibit will explore a style subculture called the Black dandy. It will âillustrate how Black people transformed from being enslaved and stylized as luxury items, acquired like any other signifier of wealth and status, to autonomous self-fashioning individuals who are global trendsetters.â
Drawing inspiration from guest curator Millerâs 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, it will explore the history and legacy of Black dandyism through garments, paintings, photographs and various artifacts while tracing the style of Black men from the 18th century to today.
Lewis Hamilton and Pharrell Williams attend a press conference announcing the Spring 2025 Costume Institute exhibition âSuperfine: Tailoring Black Styleâ at Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2024 in New York City. Taylor Hill/WireImageAhead of the announcement, Miller described Black dandyism as âa strategy and a tool to rethink identity, to reimagine the self in a different context. To really push a boundary â especially during the time of enslavement, to really push a boundary on who and what counts as human, even.â
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As the second Costume Institute exhibition since 2003âs âMen in Skirtsâ to focus exclusively on menswear, and the first since Andrew Bolton became curator in charge to involve a guest curator, this Monday in May is set to go down in red carpet history.
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It turns out that florals for spring really can be groundbreaking. That was our takeaway from the 2024 Met Gala. Its theme was âSleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,â and the dress code was âThe Garden of Time.â Despite the somewhat confusing title (as admitted by Anna Wintour herself), the guests offered up an impressive array of [âŚ]
âI feel that the show itself marks a really important step in our commitment to diversifying our exhibitions and collections, as well as redressing some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice,â Bolton told Vogue. âItâs very much about making fashion at The Met more of a gateway to access and inclusivity.â
A$AP Rocky and Colman Domingo. Getty Images (2)âWhatâs interesting about Black dandyism is itâs not just an identity,â Bolton continued. âObviously, you have people like IkĂŠ UdĂŠ, the photographer and artist who self-identifies as a dandy [UdĂŠ is serving as Special Consultant to the exhibition], but itâs also a concept as well [âŚ] I think a lot of Black designers today are exploring the different modalities that the Black dandy represents â things like freedom, dissonance, theatricality.â
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In the wake of the surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, roughly 150 pieces by designers of color have been acquired by the Costume Institute, some of which feature in âSuperfine.â
While we wait for the official dress code for next yearâs gala, style enthusiasts can get a leg up on whatâs to come on fashionâs biggest night by picking up Millerâs book.
âSuperfine: Tailoring Black Styleâ will be on view at the Met in New York City May 6 through October 26, 2025.
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