American Basketball player Lebron James has been announced an honorable chair member of Met Gala 2025.
Rapper A$AP Rocky, Oscar-nominated actor Coleman Domingo, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, and Louis Vuitton’s Men’s creative director Pharrell Williams will be joining Lebron as co-chairs for this year’s gala alongside Anna Wintour.
Themed Superfine: ”Tailoring Black Style,”, this year’s edition of the gala focuses on menswear. This year’s “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation, The dress code of the night will center on personal expression, “Tailored For You.”
Focused on highlighting the current rich landscape of Black talent across industries, the rest of the gala’s host committee is as equally star-studded. Other confirmed attendees include André 3000, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Grace Wales Bonner, Simone Biles & Jonathan Owens, Jordan Casteel, Dapper Dan, Doechii, actress Ayo Edebiri, former British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, playwright Jeremy O. Harris, Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Rashid Johnson, Regina King, Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monae, Jeremy Pope, Angel Reese, Sha’carri Richardson, Balmain creative director Olivier Rousting, TYLA, Usher, and Kara Walker.
Scheduled to come off in May 5, this year’s met gala will be held at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.This is the first time since 2003 that a theme has focused on menswear.
Exploring the role of “sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is a theme rooted in Black history. More than just a ball, the Met Gala is really the debut of a new museum exhibit, and this year’s exhibition is set to feature clothing, photographs, fine art, historical texts, and artifacts largely pulled from the 2009 book Slaves To Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller, who’s also the guest curator.
Black Dandyism, per Miller, is an aesthetic that “poses a challenge to or a transcendence of social and cultural hierarchies,” she said in a statement to Vogue. “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.”
As for that dress code — expect to see a lot of well-tailored suits hit the carpet come the first Monday in May, but also zoot suits, Congolese Sapeurs, hats, ties, canes, brooches, and pocket squares.
