The world is about to get a correct dose of Black trend refinery. The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and the Costume Institute have shared that the theme of the 2025 Met Gala can be “Superfine: Tailoring Black Fashion.” Based on Vogue, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton and Colman Domingo are the gala’s 2025 co-chairs, alongside honorary chair LeBron James.
The upcoming theme is predicated on the guide Slaves to Trend: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identification, written by Monica L. Miller, professor of Africana Research and chair of the Africana Research Division at Barnard School in New York Metropolis.
Vogue additionally revealed that the upcoming exhibit will function clothes, work, images and extra, exploring “the indelible type of Black males within the context of dandyism, from the 18th century via the current day. As such, the 2025 chairs couldn’t be extra becoming,” the journal writes.
Our males have at all times been leaders in trend, from Stephen Burrows, thought-about the primary African American designer to promote internationally and develop a mainstream, high-fashion clientele, to immediately’s iconic contemporaries like Brandon Blackwood and Sergio Hudson—and all of the Dapper Dans and FUBUs in between. And we are able to’t neglect the numerous Black males who’ve labored as tailors, milliners and shoemakers all through the centuries.
The 2025 Met Gala will happen on Monday, Could 5, 2025, on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York Metropolis.
