The Met Gala 2025 is here—and on this first Monday in May, fashion fans not lucky enough to be invited to red carpet of the year gather around their computers to debate a simple question: Who stuck to the theme?
This year, the Met Gala 2025 Costume exhibition theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” while the dress code for the event is “Tailored for You.” So if a look was exquisitely tailored, then technically it’s on theme.
However, if you want to get into details (and of course we do), the Costume Department’s exhibit is focusing on the “black dandy” and high-end menswear; per Vogue, the exhibition is “organized into 12 sections, each representing a characteristic that defines dandy style: Ownership, Presence, Distinction, Disguise, Freedom, Champion, Respectability, Jook (defined in Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Characteristics of Negro Expression’—an important reference for the exhibition—as a space for dancing, drinking, and other leisure activities), Heritage, Beauty, Cool, and Cosmopolitanism.” Those who really understood the assignment will consider the culture and history behind the black dandy and dress accordingly.
In addition to perennial chair Anna Wintour, this year’s co-chairs are Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams, along with honorary chair LeBron James. The “host committee,” includes André 3000, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jordan Casteel, Dapper Dan, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Edward Enninful, Jeremy O. Harris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, Angel Reese, Sha’Carri Richardson, Tyla, Usher, and Kara Walker.
See all the looks from the Met Gala 2025, below.