The countdown to the 2025 Met Gala is on, with fashion’s biggest night out of the year now just hours away. As ever, the evening will celebrate the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring exhibition, which this time will centre around the political and aesthetic constructs of Black dandyism. From the theme to the co-hosts, scroll down for everything you need to know about the Met Gala 2025.
When is the Met Gala 2025?
The Met Gala is taking place on 5 May, ahead of the opening of the Costume Institute’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition, which runs from 10 May to 26 October 2025. The annual event provides the Costume Institute with its primary source of funding for all activities.
What time is the 2025 Met Gala?
The Met Gala red carpet will officially open at 11pm UK time, at which point the event livestream will begin.
Where can I watch the Met Gala?
Eager not to miss out on the pageantry and excitement of the evening? Well, you don’t have to! For the fifth year in a row, the official Met Gala livestream will be the place to view exclusive coverage of all the action – live and direct from the carpet.
This year, singer and actor Teyana Taylor, actor and producer La La Anthony, and actor and comedian Ego Nwodim will host proceedings, which will be broadcast across all of Vogue’s digital platforms (as well as on YouTube). Meanwhile, Emma Chamberlain is returning to interview guests on the red carpet as Vogue’s special correspondent. You can even tune in here from 11pm UK time – get your snacks ready!
What is the Met Gala 2025 theme?
The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition – Superfine: Tailoring Black Style – will take the Black dandy as its subject, examining the importance of clothing and style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. The first Costume Institute exhibition since 2003’s “Men in Skirts” to focus exclusively on menswear, the show is inspired by co-curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, in which she establishes Black dandyism as both an aesthetic and political construct. The exhibition will be arranged by 12 characteristics of Black dandyism, an organisational principle informed by a 1934 Zora Neale Hurston essay, “The Characteristics of Negro Expression”. The contemporary designers involved – including Grace Wales Bonner, Pharrell Williams and the late Virgil Abloh – Miller notes, are “well versed in the kinds of issues that we’re talking about in the exhibition, [issues] that are related to race and power, that are related to immigration, slavery, colonies and colonisation, empowerment, joy, aesthetics.”
What is the Met Gala dress code?
This year’s dress code is “Tailored for You” – in keeping with the exhibition theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, and the focus on menswear. According to the Met, the dress code is “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation”.
Who are the co-chairs of the Met Gala 2025?
This year, the co-chairs are Pharrell Williams, actor Colman Domingo, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, musician A$AP Rocky and Anna Wintour, with basketball star Lebron James acting as honorary co-chair. The Met has also announced this year’s host committee, which includes André 3000, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Grace Wales Bonner, Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens, Jordan Casteel, Dapper Dan, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Edward Enninful, Jeremy O Harris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Regina King, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, Angel Reese, Sha’Carri Richardson, Olivier Rousteing, Tyla, Usher and Kara Walker.
What is the Met Gala?
Organised and presided over by Anna Wintour since 1995, the Met Gala has become a much-loved annual celebration of fashion. A fundraiser for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, it has traditionally been timed to mark the opening of its annual fashion exhibition. Year after year, the event raises eight-figure sums.
Original article appeared on British Vogue
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