While we wait to see if Rihanna makes it to the red (blue) carpet for the Great Pregnancy Reveal we’re all owed, what did you think of this year’s Met Gala?
No clangers, but no fireworks?
Some excellent tailoring and colossal trains, and a lot of Thom Browne, eBay and Josephine Baker kiss curls – but not a lot of historical references, vintage pieces or protest pins.
It was great to see lowkey British brands such as Priya Ahluwalia, Martine Rose and Wales Bonner on such a global stage, but the event was somewhat lacking when it comes to new, young, Black designers. Still, everyone braved the rain. It was perhaps just a little sad that André Leon Talley didn’t live to see it.
Until next year, that’s a wrap. Thanks for reading!
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And so, Rihanna is pregnant again.
Hurrying into the Carlyle hotel in a cute powder blue three-piece, her tummy partially hidden by a stole, she flashed a bit of belly for the paps.
The last time the couple appeared at the Met Gala in 2023, Rihanna was pregnant with their second child, Riot. Back then, she wore a floral hooded gown by Valentino, and A$AP Rocky wore a suit jacket, jeans, and a kilt.
Given the reveal itself was saved for her Super Bowl 2023 Halftime Show, it’s fitting that the couple have chosen this year’s gala – in which A$AP Rocky is on the committee – for pregnancy reveal number three. As to whether she’ll actually make it to the gala, who knows. Rihanna is running on Rihanna time – Anna Wintour once admitted that the only person she’ll allow to be late is the singer.
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The US model yesterday posted an Instagram of herself wearing a brown leather jacket with the face of André Leon Talley across the back. She captioned it “famine of beauty”, quoting something the former Vogue US creative said in the September Issue. “It’s been a very bleak week over here. It’s been bleak street over here in America… It’s a famine of beauty!”
Tonight, in this look by Ferragamo’s creative director, Maximilian Davis, Paloma Elsesser is arguably bringing some beauty to another bleak week. Ahead of the night, she wrote in Vogue of Davis and dandyism: “He is restraint as resistance. He is the embodiment of Black dandyism, not as aesthetic but as inheritance, as strategy, as declaration. Black dandyism is not about assimilation. It is about subversion. It takes the tropes of thinness, whiteness, and wealth, and rejects them. It is precision. It is defiance wrapped in silk.”
She also wrote: “I just thought constantly about what André Leon Talley would think of my look. I hope he approves too.”
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If the alternative theme of the night was ‘go big or go straight inside without posing for the cameras’, the singer Andre 3000 went for a more speaking-in-clothes theme. Shortly before he took to the carpet, released a surprise piano project: ‘7 piano pieces’
Wearing a zip-up parachute suit by Burberry, red beret, and carrying what looked like a refuse sack, the singer hauled his piano up the staircase. Notes on a postcard.
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FKA Twigs has floated along the red carpet wearing a feathery Grace Wales Bonner look that seems to have been inspired by Josephine Baker, the world’s first female superstar of colour who became a prominent and outspoken US civil rights campaigner.
Speaking to Vogue ahead of tonight, Twigs likened the Met Gala to The Secret Life of 4-Year-Olds: “Imagine: loads of really famous people – who I promise are just normal humans – wandering around without their teams for once. It’s like that TV show where nursery kids are filmed with hidden cameras, trying to socialise – except you’re between Donatella Versace and Lady Gaga.” We can’t wait to find out what happens in the sandpit later.
Nothing says Met Gala steps like a gargantuan train, and Stevie Wonder clearly knows it.
Speaking on the red carpet, Wonder is wise: “Love, not confusion, not hate, love,” is what he says is most needed today. “And that’s why I’m here.”
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It wouldn’t be a celebrity circus without a last minute carpet dash by Madonna, now would it?
Another off-white suit in the mould of Zendaya, the 66-year-old pop star is wearing an ivory silk version by Haider Ackermann, the new designer at Tom Ford, complete with cumberbund, Desperately Seeking Susan lace gloves, and like Doechii, has offset the whole look with a cigar (unlit – we’re inside). The memo all but forgotten, it is however tailored, with a touch of dandy, and regally inoffensive.
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Colin Kaepernick and US TV host girlfriend Nessa Diab have gone in different directions with the same garment here. Diab is wearing her cape – so far, so Met Gala – made out of puffa material (less so, but then anything is possible on this infamous steps). The design is the work of former editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful for Moncler.
Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who first popularised taking the knee as an act of solidarity and political protest, was wearing a red silk jacquard suit and statement overcoat, which looks a lot like a cape to me – apparently, according to a release, “a luxurious nod to 1920s New York tailoring reimagined for modern resistance and refinement”. It is the work of Savile Row designer Ozwald Boateng.
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There have been a few overarching themes. Wide-brimmed hats, beading, capes and trains – see Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and Shakira have all worn vast getups that have made a landgrab for the entire carpet.
But it’s the subtle and variety of pinstripes that have been a throughline tonight. Jeremy Allen White’s Louis Vuitton suit – “we landed on pinstripes pretty early – and the suit got snugger and snugger” – is zhushed up by pearl buttons and wide legs into something a bit zoot suit in shape. Meanwhile Alicia Keys in her deconstructed red pinstripe suit by Edward Enninful for Moncler – that’s right, the former Vogue editor has turned his hand to designing clothes – has sleeves that could double up as an arm rest.
The exhibition incorporates a host of pinstripe tailoring, reimagined to reflect both its heritage and creativity within Black tailoring.
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Wearing custom Valentino, US athlete Sha’Carri Richardson couldn’t be more on trend if she tried in that buttery shade of yellow. The toast? A lilac lace bodysuit.
Her statement nails, long a part of her on-track look, took centre stage on the red carpet, too. Nail artist Angie Aguirre described the stiletto-shaped style, entailing different adornments for each nail, as “a garden on a finger”.
Asked how she interpreted the theme, Tailored for You, she told Vogue: “All I felt was ‘expressing yourself’, being my unique self, showing exactly who I am through fashion, just like I do on the track … I’m just going to show up and flow, like I usually do.”
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Monica L Miller, whose book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity is the inspiration behind the exhibition and the gala itself, described the event as her “biggest class to date”.
For the event itself, she straddled several themes, working with menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner on her caped beaded gown with a silver trim. This is the first time Wales Bonner has been part of the Met, and as well as being on the committee, eight of her looks are in the exhibition, with the earliest – a crushed velvet jacket embroidered with shells, crystals and pearls – dating to 2015, the year after she graduated from Central St Martins.
Along with a number of guests, Bonner (who wore one of her own suits, but slipped past the cameras) cited André Leon Talley, who was famous for his “amazing wardrobe and flamboyant style”, as an outsized influence.
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Film-maker Spike Lee, ever-referencing his beloved New York Knicks, made sure to get to the carpet early so he wouldn’t miss the game.
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When she heard tonight’s theme, Aimee Lou Wood apparently instantly knew she wanted to wear something by London designer Priya Ahluwalia. It might not be the only deconstructed suiting look of the evening, but I think it is the only one complete with sheer tights, white socks and a bouquet of flowers at ground-level.
Not as dramatic as some Met Gala looks, but it is certainly dainty. And, after everything that went down in The White Lotus finale, maybe drama isn’t top of Wood’s list for the moment.
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“The dandiest men in my life are in my family – my dad and his grandfather,” said The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, who usually comes with Loewe but this year got dressed by Ferragamo’s creative director, Maximilian Davis, who is “Black and part of the diaspora”.
Another white shirt updated for the modern time – this one came elongated and covered in red bread fringing – finished with a cropped leather cape jacket, and another perfect kiss curl to finish off a dignified silhouette.
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The American rapper and singer-songwriter has been channelling André Leon Talley, an icon of black dandyism, in the days leading up to the Met Gala. On Instagram Doechii wrote “ready?” in a look referencing the late Talley swinging Louis Vuitton luggage and tennis racket covers.
On the night, her custom Louis Vuitton look is apparently referencing a freed slave written about by Monica Miller in her 2009 study of Black dandyism, Julius Soubise. He was cited as wearing “diamond buckled, red heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scenes of eighteenth century London”.
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Tracee Elliss Ross might not have seen her mum, Diana Ross, on the red carpet earlier but, as she explained to Vogue: “She stops time”. Time and, most likely, traffic.
But while there might have been no beating an 18ft train, this Marc Jacobs look was not short of joy, from the poking-out pleats to the peony-esque colours. “It’s just a little look,” she said to Vogue.
On hearing the theme for this year’s Met, her reaction? “I feel like I am naturally a dandy. I don’t like by anyone else’s definition of me and I just feel like this is a sense of claiming and owning your own identity and fashioning it on your own terms. And that’s this.”
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Out on the streets, actor Laban King, 41, was also out to celebrate dandyism.
“I’m originally from Detroit, Michigan, so I grew up dressing like this. The look is for my father. This is our look, our culture, and at the end of the day theres nothing like a man in a suit. That will never go out of style.”
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Fifty-three-year-old Walton Goggins – who plays Rick in season three of The White Lotus – might have been winning fans for his hairline of late, but after tonight his twirling will surely be heaped with praise, too. He did it all wearing a deconstructed-style suit from maestro of playful, unexpected tailoring Thom Browne.
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If virality seems to be the end goal tonight, then Sabrina Carpenter’s espresso-coloured dress/bodysuit/shirt/train thing is a strong contender. Designed by Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton – making it in one sense menswear – he refused to make her trousers because she’s so short. “High shoes are a staple,” she said. Yes they are.
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Another of this year’s co-chairs, A$AP Rocky, has arrived in an outfit designed by AWGE, his own label that debuted in June last year, a move perfectly in keeping with the importance of self-expression that is woven into the theme. “I feel amazing, this is a dream come true,” he told Vogue. “I really wanted to give it a bit of Harlem Nights.”
As Pharrell Williams said in the lead-up to tonight, Rihanna and her partner, A$AP Rocky, are the couple to watch on the red carpet: “Those two, they come through with a blowtorch.” And come through Rocky certainly has.
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Anne Hathaway, the latest star to weaponise the white shirt, arrives in a sequin cocktail skirt by Carolina Herrera and a Titanic-esque gobstopper of as necklace. Her look was inspired, she told Vogue, “by André Leon Talley”.
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Look of the night – or at least most mimetically-geared look – goes to Diana Ross who scaled the steps for the first time since 2003 in a sparkling column dress finished off with a spotlight-sweeping 18ft white train, embroidered with the names of all her children and grandchildren.
Ten years to the day since Rihanna broke the internet with her Guo Pei’s canary-yellow omelette dress, could Diana’s dress be a reference? Is this the year of the egg-white omelette dress?
“I had to be careful with the hat – my head is pretty big,” she said.
Fun fact: Rihanna’s 2015 dress had been sitting in Guo’s studio for three years before the singer’s team came across it after making inquiries into Chinese couture prior to the 2015 gala, the theme of which was China: Through the Looking Glass.
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Zendaya’s all-white, three-piece take on the zoot suit is one of many already to grace the red carpet this evening. A custom Louis Vuitton design by Pharrell Williams, a snake broach is pinned to its back – no doubt more will come out about the significance of that later.
The zoot suit is already proving a favourite this evening with good reason. According to the Smithsonian, “With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg leg pants, the zoot suit grew out of the “drape” suits popular in Harlem dance halls in the mid-1930s.” The lavish cut, which used bountiful amounts of fabric, signalled wealth and excess.
They are politically loaded. As historian Kathy Peiss wrote in Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style: “For those without other forms of cultural capital, fashion can be a way of claiming space for yourself.”
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Styled by the keen-eyed Gabriella Karefa Johnson, model Gigi Hadid has arrived complete with a victory roll and a shimmering Miu Miu gown which seemingly references the golden age of cinema – the 1940s throwbacks are two-a-penny.
It’s actually a reference to the little known American fashion designer and costumer, Zelda Wynn Valdes, who is thought to have designed the first Playboy bunny costumes. “I like to think it’s the sort of thing she might have designed for me,” said Hadid on the red (blue) carpet.
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Pamela Anderson arrives not on a wing and a prayer, but a brand new bob and pillowy shaped silver sequinned gown by Tory Burch. It’s a good distraction from the many, many column inches that will likely be dedicated to her no-make-up make up. It’s a dignified, dialled up sort of glamour – though it’s not entirely clear what it has to do with the theme …
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Whoopi Goldberg has shown up to the red carpet wearing a brilliantly tailored look by the master of inventive tailoring, New York-based designer Thom Browne. It apparently took 350,000 sequins to make.
She says she opted for silver finger caps because she “couldn’t get a manicure”, which will go down in history as the ultimate humblebrag.
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Earlier today, co-chair Colman Domingo appeared at the Metropolitan Museum’s private view for its forthcoming exhibition, and the real reason we’re all here.
Do watch this video; it’s a rather moving take on the Black male experience over history as well as legendary fashion journalist André Leon Talley, and why being involved this year matters so much to him.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a lot of black looks tonight. It’s a little dull, a little on the nose, but to be fair Sydney Sweeney has found a Miu Miu gown with interesting fringed shoulders that’s somehow both unifying and elongating (her “third year with the brand!”, she said proudly) – the whole thing is inspired by Kim Novak, she says. The kiss curl is a nice touch.
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Fashion fans brave downpour in New York to see stars at the Met Gala
In case you’re wondering, it is pouring in New York. Edward Helmore has filed this dispatch from the damper-than-damp fans huddled outside the museum:
Fashion fans braved heavy rain to get a glimpse of the stars making their way to the Met Gala, while others - local residents - expressed frustration that they could get passed police security blocks to get home
Ariana Degado, 18, standing outside the Carlyle hotel, said he was there to see Bad Bunny - if possible. “I like his style. He’s different from other Black celebrities. He dresses however he wants. Not masculine, not feminine. He’s more like whatever.” Her friend, Kaitlyn Gonzales, said she was waiting for Milly Cyrus.
Leandra Nef, a stylist from Zurich, Switzerland, said she was keen to see how the stars interpreted dandyism: “It’s very important but not easy. I can imagine they might be scared to do something wrong but at the same time it’s a huge opportunity to work with Black performers and people of color.
The theme of the ball said Winst, who works security for luxury stores, said he, too, was cool for Black people to be appreciated for their style and contributions to culture. If white people turn up trying to look Black, “it’s just all part of inclusion, I guess, “ he said.
Djassi DaCosta-Johnson, whose sister Yaya DaCosta, an actor, was going to the gala, said it was an important moment “especially with the assault on our culture and the history of this country.”
“These types of things do feel a bit like reparations because art and music and fashion is culture and we are constantly recreating it. Regardless of whether its recognised by the white echelons of society, they have always bought into and used it their advantage. So this is grand display and a beautiful celebration.”
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This is US Olympic athlete Simone Biles’s second time attending the Met Gala, and this time she is also on the host committee. Although, she said in the run-up, that hasn’t been too taxing a role that she couldn’t focus on what to wear. “No big, big job … just show up, have a good time, wear a beautiful fit, and then just walk the carpet,” she said. Although, on the red carpet, she has said that getting ready for the Met was more stressful than preparing for the Olympics.
Last time she attended she wore a dress that weighed around the same as a coffee table. This time her electric blue dress (surely we are seeing the coattails of ALT again) with a sharply tailored collar looks lighter, even if the train is exuberantly long. No double somersaults with a triple twist tonight, then, but plenty of sartorial prowess in this look from LA-based designer Charles Harbison.
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No prizes for guessing what Pharrell Williams, the creative director of Louis Vuitton, is wearing tonight.
A cropped double breasted jacket in white pearls might not sound particularly subversive. It’s black tie with a modish, dandy flavour. But like his predecessor, Virgil Abloh, Williams’ appointment as the head of the biggest menswear fashion brand in the world is a marker of the power of Black cultural capital – not to mention hiphop, class and class politics – on a global scale, so he is a key figure tonight. He’s also a chair. Also, the flares are a great touch.
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Co-chair Colman Domingo debuts second look
The night is still oh-so-young and co-chair Colman Domingo is already onto his second look (still custom Valentino designed by creative director Alessandro Michele), having shed his André Leon Talley-coded cloak in favour of a joyfully pattern-clashing look of grids and polka dots. It’s busy but it works! The polka dots on the brooch have apparently been hand-painted on.
That’s already two looks down – can he beat the total of four different looks that Lady Gaga wore to the 2019 Met Gala? Only time will tell.
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And lo, we already have our first trend: pinstripes.
Following Teyana’s voluminous zoot suit, here is Emma Chamberlain, who is hosting Vogue’s red carpet coverage, in a deconstructed backless dress and train by Courrèges that manages to reference both the 00s and the jazz age. The silverwear was found by her stylist, Jared Ellner, on eBay. Earlier, the TV reporter Zuri Hall also wore a strapless bustier gown in pinstripe by the American designer, Bishme Cromartie. Pinstripes are a key but fairly safe reference of Black dandyism. Expect we’ll see a lot more tonight.
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And here comes another of this year’s co-chairs. Fresh from the heat of Miami, where he has been competing in the Grand Prix, to the steps of the Met… Lewis Hamilton, one of this year’s co-chairs, has arrived wearing what is apparently a custom design by the British designer Grace Wales Bonner. The hat, the brooch; he has not come to play.
Bonner, a 34-year-old London-based menswear designer and the person responsible for bringing the Adidas Samba into modern ubiqiuty, was herself on the committee and also has a number of works in this year’s exhibition.
As you might expect for such a famously intellectual designer, her look for Hamilton is rich with references. As she told Vogue: “For Lewis’s look, we brought together a range of influences, from Barkley L. Hendricks paintings, to Black spiritual dressing and some of the brand’s craft signatures. There are stories told through jewel adornments and special trims, with symbolism in baobab flower motifs and natural materials like cowrie shells and mother of pearl buttons.”
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A non-red carpet for fashion's biggest night
A word about the red carpet: it’s rarely red. Last year it was green and white, and this year it’s midnight blue, and dotted with hyper-realistic daffodils to match the fake floral hedge backdrop. The whole thing is then laid over the staircase leading up to The Metropolitan Museum.
You might have seen them in Gossip Girl, The Thomas Crown Affair or Sex and the City. They were only built in 1975 but have long transcended their original purpose as an entrance to become an iconic piece of New York infrastructure and what Elle Deco calls, “New York’s front porch”.
Here’s a great quote from Town & Country by former Costume Institute curator, Harold Koda, who describes them as “like a ziggurat leading up to a building four blocks long. Walking up to the entrance was, for someone interested in art, like scaling the Acropolis.”
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Here’s Teyana Taylor in custom Marc Jacobs. What a look: a three piece homage to the Zoot suit (note the high-waisted, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers) with pillowy shoulders, platform heels and a cape with the words: Harlem Rose. Under that hat is a satin durag too.
A bold, provocative getup that subverts gender stereotypes while being a little bit provocative. I just hope she kept the cape out of the rain.
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Last year Colman Domingo wore work by the designer Willy Chavarria and namechecked the late André Leon Talley as an inspiration behind the look. This year, surely, surely that bright blue cloak is a reference to Talley’s own Met Gala look from 2011 when the theme was Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.
But we are likely in for even more sartorial treats from the Met Gala co-chair as the night goes on. Domingo is reportedly collaborating with Alessandro Michele, the Italian creative director of Valentino, for his red carpet looks this year and has hinted that he will wear more than one outfit representing ‘great moments in tailoring for men of colour’.”
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LeBron James bows out of Met Gala due to injury
Uh oh, time for the gala’s first set back: just a few hours before he was due to step onto the steps as an honorary chair, LeBron James has backed out due to injury sustained during first round of the NBA playoffs.
“Unfortunately because of my knee injury I sustained at the end of the season I won’t be able to attend the Met Gala in NY tonight as so many people have been asking and congratulating me on! Hate to miss an historical event!” he wrote on X. King of the tunnel ‘fit, James was named an honorary chair for the event. Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and A$AP Rocky are however still set to serve as chairs.
One of six athletes named to the committee, James’ injury was later diagnosed as a Grade 2 MCL sprain. Some fans were unclear as to why he couldn’t attend, though a quick glance at the number of steps he’d have to take should answer that. More on the staircase soon.
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One thing we can expect from this year’s installation is the fabulous, looming presence of the late André Leon Talley to be played out on the red carpet and beyond. He was, as Anna Wintour wrote in Vogue last month, “a dandy among dandies and he radiated joy.”
Once US Vogue’s editor-at-large and Wintour’s right-hand man, before she reportedly “threw him under the bus”, his Met Gala get-ups – in fact his get-ups in general (he wore full Louis Vuitton to play tennis) – were never inconspicuous or uninteresting, so are sure to provide ample inspiration tonight.
It was, Wintour wrote, “his instinct for self-presentation” that made him so incredible. “He understood that, especially as a Black man, what you wore told a story about you, about your history, about self-respect. And so, for André, getting dressed was an act of autobiography, and also mischief and fantasy, and so much else at once.”
He gave up attending the Met Gala himself, writing in his explosive memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, how he left his final Met Gala mid-evening: “I stood up. Vera Wang asked where I was going; I told her the men’s room, but instead I swept and swirled down the back corridors of the Met to my waiting car. On the way home, I swore to myself: I will never attend another Anna Wintour Met Gala for the rest of my life.” But his legacy will live on tonight.
Anna Wintour leaves hotel under five umbrellas amid downpour in New York
We have had our first Anna Wintour spotting of the evening.
Footage has emerged via a pop culture account on X of the Vogue editor-in-chief leaving her hotel under the cover of not one but at one stage, by our count, 5 umbrellas. Rain and bobs that impeccable clearly don’t mix.
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Stars lean into Met Gala's 2025 theme: 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style'
Hello! Ellie and Morwenna from the Guardian’s fashion desk here in London. We’ll be watching the Met Gala – fashion’s Oscars/Baftas/Olympics – so you don’t have to, guiding you through the probable hits and possible misses from a starry guest list which includes Zendaya, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, and multiple Jenner/Kardashians.
To recap on what you’re watching: as ever, the Met Gala takes place on the first Monday in May as the opening of New York’s Costume Institute exhibition. There is always a theme, and usually some sort of accompanying text, and this year’s it’s called “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which will look back at 300 years of Black fashion alongside the history of Black dandyism.
To get you up to speed, do have a read of this brilliant piece by the Guardian’s Sasha Mistlin from earlier this week. Last month, Sasha interviewed Monica L. Miller, whose 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, interrogates of the strategic use of fashion by Black men throughout history, which is the inspiration behind both the exhibition and gala.
The theme is notable for various reasons, not least because it’s the Met’s first ever fashion exhibition devoted entirely to designers of colour so is being viewed by some as a wider effort to incorporate more diversity into the collection. It’s timely too. Previous galas have been criticised for being tone-deaf, little more than peacocking, and a parade of privilege and elitism.
In her preview piece for the Saturday paper, Jess Cartner-Morley describes this year’s theme as an “intellectually minded celebration of diversity [which] lands at a moment when the Trump administration is pushing back robustly against both diversity and intellectualism”.
However you view it, the event itself has huge cultural and celebrity cachet, helped no end by Anna Wintour and her assembled co-hosts: Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, ASAP Rocky and Pharrell Williams with LeBron James as the honorary chair.
This is handy given the main thrust of the gala is making money. A choice guest list of designers, celebrities and other notables will have bought tickets or a table at great cost. An individual ticket is $75,000, or over £55,ooo, while a table of ten goes for more than a quarter of a million pounds. Donations also roll in from donors. Proceeds then go to the Costume Institute, which is dependent on the gala for its main operating costs, though it’s worth mention that the gala itself costs a lot of put on too … The gala’s arrival is fleeting: stars arrive, walk up the stairs, and disappear inside. There is a party with dinner and music, more on what that involves later. And there is almost always Rihanna.
Fashion-wise, what does that mean? We can probably expect some radical tailoring, a little menswear-as-womenswear, flamboyant spins on the modern dandy and a diverse raft of designers. But what we want to see is a celebration of fashion at its most multicultural, expressive and absurd. Fashion as high art.
We all know that the red carpet is now an economy unto itself, a strangely cultivated branding exercise for celebrities and marketing tool by the fashion industry built on an illusion that the gowns and dandy suits are an expression of a celebrity’s personal style when in fact, they’ve been picked by a stylist. But that doesn’t stop it being wonderful to watch.
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