The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute charity event, fashion’s most spectacular evening for 2025, Met Galawill welcome her guests on May 5.

As announced by the famous museum, with the help of Pharrell Williams and Lewis Hamilton, the theme of the spring exhibition of the museum and Met Gala will have the title “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” and will be about the contribution of black culture to fashion through the ages.

It is the Costume Institute’s first exhibition since 2003’s “Braveheart: Men in Skirts” to focus exclusively on men’s fashion, according to the AP. For this reason, alongside the Iron Lady of fashion, Anna Wintour, on the Met Gala red carpet will be co-chairs LeBron James, Coleman Domingo, A$AP Rocky along with Williams and Hamilton.

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According to Museum Director Max Hollein, the exhibition, which will run for the first time for six months, will explore “the importance of dress style in the formation of black identities in the Atlantic diaspora” and celebrate “the power of style as a democratic tool for rejecting stereotypes and accessing new options”.

A source of inspiration is the book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity” published in 2009 by Columbia University Barnard College professor Monica L. Miller.

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“The exhibition will present a cultural and historical examination of the Black Dandy, from the 18th century to its modern forms,” ​​the author underlined while noting that in the 1780s, “dandies” were often defined as “men who gave special and sometimes too much attention to dress.’

Last year’s gala raised more than $26 million, a record for such an event. The exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will be hosted at the museum from May 10 to October 26, 2025.