The 2025 Met Gala has officially announced its dress code. After previously announcing that the 2025 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition will be themed "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the Met has announced its dress code for the accompanying Met Gala: "Tailored for You."
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As reported by Vogue, the dress code is "a nod to the exhibitions' focus on menswear" and "is purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation."
"Superfine" explores the role of style and fashion in forming Black identities, with a special focus on "Black Dandyism." It's the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus on menswear since 2003 when the exhibit was "Men in Skirts."
Guest curator Monica L. Miller, whose book — Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity — inspired the exhibit, wrote in a statement:
"Dandyism can seem frivolous, but it often poses a challenge to or a transcendence of social and cultural hierarchies. It asks questions about identity, representation, and mobility in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, and power. This exhibition explores dandyism as both a pronouncement and a provocation."
Vogue also reported that the dress code should lead to looks inspired by everything, "from versions of the zoot silhouette popularized by jazz musicians in the 1940s to the bold, colorful styles worn by Congolese 'sapeurs' — though other menswear staples, such as hats, ties, and perhaps canes, brooches, and pocket squares, are likely to have a strong showing, too."
Joining previously-announced co-chairs Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams are the newly-announced Host Committee — which includes stars like André 3000, Simone Biles, Regina King, Spike Lee, Audra McDonald, Angel Reese, Tyla, Usher, and Kara Walker, as well as queer stars like Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Pope, and Sha'Carri Richardson.
The 2025 Met Gala is scheduled to take place on May 5. The exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, will be open to the public from May 10 to October 26.