How Black talent carried this year’s Met Gala
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 8, 2025
On Monday evening, stars crowded the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2025 Met Gala in their finest suiting and tailoring, accessorised with hats, capes and brooches – all their best interpretations of this year’s “Tailored for You” dress code.
The 2025 Met Gala’s “Tailored for You” dress code – inspired by the Costume Institute’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition exploring political and aesthetic constructs of Black dandyism – emphasised menswear and tailoring. But for many attendees, tribute to the theme and its source material, Monica L. Miller’s 2009 . . .
