“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially announced the theme for the 2025 Met Gala.
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In just seven months, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will once again roll out the red carpet for fashion’s favourite night. Over the past several decades, we’ve seen the gala bring together our favourite stylists, designers, and celebrities to raise money for the museum’s Costume Institute and engage in a friendly competition for the unofficial Best Dressed trophy. From last year’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion to 2023’s Karl Lagerfeld tribute and In America: An Anthology of Fashion before it, the Met Gala always provides a specific yet open-ended dress code coinciding with its annual exhibit.
While we wait for the official dress code for next year’s gala, we now know roughly what it will entail — for the Met has now announced the title of their 2025 exhibit: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Drawing inspiration from guest curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, it will examining the history and legacy of Black dandyism through garments, paintings, photographs, and various other artefacts, tracing the style of Black men from the 18th-century to today. Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will all serve as co-chairs on the first Monday of May, and as the second ever Met Gala to focus on menswear (after 2003’s Men in Skirts) and the first to host a guest curator, it will no doubt be one for the books.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style will be on view May 6 through October 26, 2025.
