Welcome to the 2025 Met Gala: fashion’s most anticipated night. A major fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the gala marks the opening of Superfine: Black Tailoring.
This landmark exhibition explores the importance of dress in the formation of Black diasporic identity through the cultural and historical lens of the dandy. It’s the first exhibition at the Costume Institute in more than two decades to focus on menswear, and the first to center on Black style.
On the evening of May 5, hundreds of guests stepped out of the phalanx of excursion cars along Fifth Avenue and onto the steps of the museum, dressed in custom-made clothes that interpreted the dress code “made for you”—a nod to Superfine’s emphasis on suits.
The exhibition was curated by guest curator Monica L Miller and is based on her 2009 book Slaves to Fashion. In the book, the Barnard College professor and chair of Africana Studies positions black dandyism as a political and aesthetic tool for asserting taste, status, and cultural difference. A plethora of exquisitely tailored looks graced the 2025 Met Gala red carpet, and all of the night’s highlights are documented here.
This year’s co-hosts included A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, as well as honorary chair LeBron James. The host committee added even more star power, including Edward Enninful, André 3000, Simone Biles, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Regina King, Spike Lee, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, Shakali Richardson, Tyra, and Usher, while surprise appearances by the likes of Madonna and Rihanna solidified the event as fashion’s most glittering night.