The 2025 Met Gala is tonight (May 5), and we’re bringing you the info you’ll want to know!
As previously announced, the annual event – held on the first Monday in May each year – will have the following theme for 2025: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” It’s the first Met Gala to focus on menswear since 2003 and it draws inspiration from Monica L. Miller‘s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
This year’s dress code is noted as “Tailored for You.” The Met shared that the code pays homage to the theme and is “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation.” Vogue notes that the theme basically breaks down to: “embracing looks reflective of one’s personal style.” It’s meant to “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy.”
According to CNN, “Once used to describe the aristocratic style and leisurely pursuits of figures like Regency England’s Beau Brummell, dandyism has been recontextualized over the years to embody liberation and resistance through exuberant self-expression.”
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