Yesterday, October 9, the theme of the Metropolitan Museum of New York’s annual exhibition with the Costume Institute was unveiled.
The Met Gala 2025, scheduled for May 5, will focus on the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” a concept that celebrates tailoring and dandyism, drawing inspiration from the book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller. This approach seeks to highlight not only elegance and technique in fashion, but also the rich black history and culture, including dandyism, that has influenced contemporary fashion.
This 2025, the gala’s co-hosts will be Pharrell Williams, actor Colman Domingo, driver Lewis Hamilton, musician A$AP Rocky and Anna Wintour. Lebron James will be honorary co-host. “They are all men who are not afraid to take risks in how they present themselves to the world. They take advantage of classic shapes, but they also mix it up and break it down in very new ways,” Bolton says. “I think black men and black designers are very much at the forefront of this new renaissance in men’s fashion.”
This is the first time since 2003 that the Men in Skirts-themed MET Gala, funded this year by social network Instagram and luxury brand Louis Vuitton, focuses its theme on menswear.
