The 2025 Met Gala co-chairs and theme have been revealed . On Wednesday, October 9, Vogue announced that Colman Domingo , F1 driver Lewis Hamilton , A$AP Rocky , Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour alongside honorary chair LeBron James will be the co-chairs. The event that takes place on the first Monday in May, May 5 2025, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will honor the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.
The annual exhibition and gala were inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. It 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.
" Teresa Weatherspoon delivers passionate Angel Reese speech and sends message to fans Kim Kardashian details bizarre Met Gala shoe choice that fans missed At a Costume Institute press conference on Wednesday. October 9, Monica said: "In the 18th century, dandyism could be both a vehicle of enslavement and liberation. It was also imposed upon and quickly taken up by Black people swept up into the political realities of the time.
" She continued: "This exhibition, ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,’ explores the dialectic between being dandified and taking on dandyism as a means for self-fashioning. In the show, Black dandyism is a sartorial style that asks questions about identity, representation, mobility, .