Whee! It's the 2025 Met Gala Open Thread!
Who's wearing what?!?!
Greetings, Broads! It is once again the first Monday in May and we are mere hours away from celebs descending on the Metropolitan Museum for its annual fundraising gala, a.k.a fashion’s Super Bowl.
The Met’s Fashion Institute exhibit this year is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which looks really cool — if any of you got to attend the preview, please report! — and the dress code for the party is the (wisely) wide-ranging “Tailored For You.” Party co-host Vogue reports:
Per The Met, the dress code is a nod to the exhibition’s focus on menswear and is “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation.”
“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy. Composed of clothing, photographs, fine art, historical texts, and artifacts, it’s the first Costume Institute exhibition to focus on menswear since 2003’s “Men in Skirts” and was inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
The magazine goes on to predict:
“Tailored for You can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, but it mostly means embracing looks reflective of one’s personal style. We can surely expect inspired takes on suiting—from versions of the zoot silhouette popularized by jazz musicians in the 1940s to the bold, colorful styles worn by Congolese sapeurs—though other menswear staples, such as hats, ties, canes, brooches, and pocket squares, are likely to have a strong showing too.”
This sounds very promising — and this dress code is also forgiving enough that various celebrities should be able to adhere to it fairly easily.
Tonight’s co-chairs —in addition, obviously, to Anna Wintour — are the always stylish Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams, and honorary co-chair LeBron James. (I suspect LeBron was “honorary” because his attendance was dependant on what was happening in the NBA playoffs. Sadly for me as a Lakers fan, but happily for me as a fan of outfits, he does have a free evening tonight. It will be his first Met Gala!)
The event also has a “host committee,” which this year includes André 3000, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Angel Reese, Sha’Carri Richardson, Tyla, and Usher, as well as other luminaries, like author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and artist Kara Walker. None of these people have to actually do anything other than show up and look chic and, presumably, share on social media, but I continue to wish they would actually attend planning meetings and weigh in on, like, napkin choices or appetizers — simply because the idea of, say, Doechii and Ayo getting very passionate about whether or not they should serve mini beef wellingtons or whatever seems entertaining. This would make a fun short form docu-series, so please take note, Vogue.
Beyond these folks, we can reasonably expect to see Rihanna (who swears she’s coming with A$AP Rocky but I feel like we all believe that Rihanna will attend when Rihanna actually physically arrives); Zendaya (per Law Roach, although it’s unclear as to whether he’s styling her); Madonna (per Page Six, who says Diana Ross will also attend); and surely a bunch of others. Met Gala regular Sarah Jessica Parker already said she won’t be there, and there are rumors that Taylor Swift is skipping because she and Blake Lively aren’t getting along but (a) Taylor actually rarely attends, although Travis Kelce at least is in New York right now, (b) People reports that Blake isn’t attending, and (c) I think this so-called feud is made up.
Time will tell! The arrivals are being hosted this year by Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony, and Ego Nwodim, with Emma Chamberlain back as “special correspondent.”
So how can we watch the arrivals? The whole thing kicks off at at 6 p.m. EST. on all of Vogue’s digital platforms, including their YouTube channel and at this page on Vogue.com.
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