Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams are among the co-chairs for the 2025 Met Gala.
Vogue magazine have announced fashion's biggest night, which will take place on 5 May, will have the theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' and revealed the stars who will join editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in arranging the Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In addition, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has been appointed honorary chair.
Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, said of the co-chairs: “They’re all men who aren’t afraid to take risks with their self-presentation. They take advantage of classic forms, but they also remix them and break them down in really new ways.
“I think Black men and Black designers are very much at the forefront of this new renaissance in menswear.”
The annual exhibition and accompanying gala is inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book 'Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity' and 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.”
Monica said at a Costume Institute press conference on Wednesday (09.10.24): “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.
"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, race, class, gender, sexuality, power.”
The 2024 Met Gala was themed around 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion', while the previous year honoured late design legend Karl Lagerfeld.
