Met Gala 2025: Release date and time, what to expect and more
The Met Gala 2025 is set to take place on May 5 at approximately 4:30 pm EST. Officially known as the Costume Institute Benefit, the annual haute couture fundraising festival supports the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan. Held on the first Monday of May every year, the event is widely considered the most prominent and spectacular fashion event in the world.
This year's Met Gala will be co-chaired by Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour, with LeBron James serving as honorary chair.
The host committee includes André 3000, Jordan Casteel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dapper Dan, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Edward Enninful, Jeremy O. Harris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, Angel Reese, Sha'Carri Richardson, Tyla, Usher, and Kara Walker.
While the guest list is never disclosed in advance, Vogue has teased just enough names to generate interest. Among those expected to appear are Dapper Dan, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Edward Enninful, Janelle Monáe, Angel Reese, Sha'Carri Richardson, Olivier Rousteing, Tyla, Usher, and Simone Biles.
What is the theme of Met Gala 2025?
The Met Gala 2025 theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which also happens to be the title of the Costume Institute's spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute is housed in the Anna Wintour Costume Center of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, named for the Vogue editor-in-chief who has chaired the gala since the 1990s. Funded by proceeds from the event, the institute has tens of thousands of items in its archives that span hundreds of years.
Twelve sections make up Superfine, each of which focuses on a characteristic that defines the style: jook, heritage, beauty, coolness, cosmopolitanism, ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, champion, respectability, and freedom.
Inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller's 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, the theme will reportedly explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities. According to Vogue, it will focus on the emergence, growth, and significance of the Black dandy.
"Black style is really related to thinking about how fashion and power connect,” Miller continue. “The way that people are styled, are fashioned or fashion themselves, in response to the degree of agency that they feel — silhouettes change, use of pattern, color — all of those things change in relation to time, and relationship to history.”
How to watch Met Gala 2025?
The event is best known for its red carpet, which may be viewed live on Vogue.com, YouTube, or E!, even though the gala itself is completely closed to the media (attendees are required to follow a no-phone policy).
This year, Saturday Night Live cast Ego Nwodim, singer and actor Teyana Taylor, and producer and actor La La Anthony will host Vogue's official livestream. The livestream of the Met Gala will begin at 6 p.m. EST.
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