2025 Met Gala to Celebrate Black Menswear with New A-List Hosts
Steppers to the front, please!
The 2025 Met Gala is making history this year with its theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Feb. 4th this year’s Costume Institute exhibition will explore the evolution of “Black dandyism”, highlighting the impact of tailored and avant-garde fashion as a tool for self-expression, resistance, and innovation for Black Americans. The exhibit opens to the public in New York on May 10th and will run through October 26th. The star-studded gala will take place on Monday, May 5th, staying in line with their MET Monday tradition.
This year’s Met Gala will feature an A-List host lineup— co-chaired by Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, with LeBron James joining as a first-time honorary chair. The Institute also brought back their “Met Gala Host Committee” which, according to Vogue, is a group usually composed of figures across art, film, literature, music, and sports. The reinstated 2025 committee consists of icons such as Simone Biles, Janelle Monáe, Dapper Dan, Angel Reese, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, André 3000, Olivier Rousteing, Tyla, USHER, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, and more.
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With Louis Vuitton as the lead sponsor, the exhibit pulls inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s book Slaves to Fashion, which traces how Black men have historically used fashion to reclaim identity, individuality, and challenge norms.
The Superfine exhibit will showcase historical and contemporary formalwear pieces from Frederick Douglass to Andre Leon Talley, coupled with modern designs by the young legend LaQuan Smith and Theophilio.
For the first time in over two decades, the Met Gala will exclusively focus on menswear, reframing the narrative of fashion and resistance through a Black cultural lens.
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