As per usual, the haute couture event drew celebrities, fashion insiders, and tastemakers to New York City’s Upper East Side to ascend the red (or, in this case, blue with yellow and white flowers) carpet laid out on the iconic Met steps. Guests who exemplified the night’s theme and dress code included gala co-chairs Colman…
The Black Dandy is a being of its own creation. With its own set of inalienable rights, The Black Dandy exists at the intersections of autonomy and coercion, liberation and enslavement, resistance and compliance. The very nature of The Black Dandy is to be a trickster. Black Dandies — African Americans who are always impeccably…
Tonight’s Met Gala will focus on the aesthetic and political roots of Black dandyism fashion through the 2025 theme: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The gala, often deemed fashion’s biggest night, serves as a fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But it serves as a deeper event for some: actor and…
What to Know The 2025 Met Gala will take place on Monday with arrivals scheduled between 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The theme of the 2025 Met Gala is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” and the dress code is “Tailored for You” Co-chairs and hosts of…
This year’s Met Gala is themed “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” Vogue reported that the theme was inspired by Black dandyism, menswear, and “the importance of clothing and style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora.” Black dandyism, specifically, is a style and movement that’s been embraced by Black men since the 18th…
Fashion aficionados, assemble! The 2025 Met Gala is officially here. Taking place tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City’s Upper East Side, the annual costume benefit sets the stage for some of the most talked about fashion moments for years to come. Each year, on the first Monday of May, attendees…
The Met Gala is back for 2025 in New York City, with a spotlight on Black style and tailoring. Here’s what to know about this year’s theme explained. Much of the buzz around fashion’s biggest night revolves around the so-called theme, which is based on the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and…
Inflation has pushed up the price of many things, but not of tickets to the 2025 Met Gala. The A-list event, held annually on the first Monday in May to benefit The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, draws celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, business and other domains in…
Domingo has had a stellar year. But he’s been making waves on the red carpet for many prior. In 2017, the actor partnered with stylist duo Wayman and Micah, and began leaning into bold, playful looks. In this, Domingo helped to spearhead the menswear style shift away from boring black and navy suits towards more…
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Reverend Dr Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: what one wore as a black man mattered. Wesley’s pastor father, who moved from Louisiana after World War II in search of more opportunities than those readily available to black people in the Deep South, “always…