The Met Gala 2025 will, as always, 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? “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will run from 10 May to 26 October 2025 , following the Met Gala on 5 May, which provides the Costume Institute with its primary source of funding for all activities.
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”.
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