Met Gala 2025 Theme and Co-Chairs Revealed: Everything We Know

The 2025 Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will draw inspiration from the author's work Monica L Miller and explore the legacy of black dandyism.

On Wednesday, October 9, the Costume Institute announced that the exhibition title and theme of next year's Met Gala will be “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”

The co-chairs are style stars in their own right and will also include actors Colman DomingoRacer Lewis HamiltonRappers A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams and of course the creative director of Condé Nast and fashion Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour. NBA star LeBron James will also serve as honorary co-chair.

Accordingly fashionThe exhibition is about a style subculture called Black Dandy. It will “illustrate how Black people evolved from being enslaved and stylized by luxury items acquired like any other sign of wealth and status, to becoming autonomous, self-fashioning individuals who are global trendsetters.”

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Inspired by guest curator Miller's 2009 book, Slaves of Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Shaping of Black Diasporic IdentityIt will explore the history and legacy of black dandyism through clothing, paintings, photographs and various artifacts, while tracing black men's style from the 18th century to the present day.

Before the announcement, Miller described black dandyism as “a strategy and tool for rethinking identity and reimagining the self in a different context.” To truly push a boundary – particularly in the era of enslavement, even a boundary beyond it to shift who and what counts as human.”

It is the Costume Institute's second exhibition to focus exclusively on men's fashion since 2003's “Men in Skirts,” and its first since then Andrew Bolton This Monday in May will be the curator responsible for bringing in a guest curator and making red carpet history.

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“I believe that the exhibition itself represents a really important step in our commitment to diversify our exhibitions and collections and to remove some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice,” Bolton said fashion. “It’s all about making fashion at The Met more of a gateway to access and inclusion.”

“The interesting thing about black dandyism is that it’s not just an identity,” Bolton continued. “Obviously there are people like that Ike Ude, the photographer and artist who identifies himself as a dandy (Udé serves as a special advisor to the exhibition), but it is also a concept (…) I think many black designers today are exploring the different modalities of the black dandy represented – things like freedom, dissonance , Theatrics.”

As support for the Black Lives Matter movement surged in 2020, the Costume Institute acquired approximately 150 pieces from designers of color, some of which are featured in “Superfine.”

While we wait for the official dress code for next year's gala, style enthusiasts can get an idea of ​​what to expect on fashion's biggest night with Miller's book.

“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will be on view at the Met in New York City from May 6 to October 26, 2025.