A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams To Co-Chair 2025 Met Gala With Honorary Chair LeBron James
Details for the 2025 Met Gala have arrived. The theme of the anticipated fashion philanthropy event is set to be Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, inspired by Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
According to Vogue, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the 2025 Met Gala, alongside honorary chair LeBron James. Domingo attended his first Met Gala earlier this year, while 2025 will mark Williams’ sixth time at the Met Gala. Hamilton has attended the event since 2015, and A$AP Rocky graced the red carpet in 2021 and 2023. This will be LeBron James’ first year popping out on the first Monday in May.
“They’re all men who aren’t afraid to take risks with their self-presentation. They take advantage of classic forms, but they also remix them and break them down in really new ways,” elaborated the Costume Institution’s Curator In Charge Andrew Bolton.
“I think Black men and Black designers are very much at the forefront of this new renaissance in menswear.”
According to Vogue the exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will be on view May 6 through October 26, 2025, and will be arranged by 12 characteristics of Black dandyism, an organizational principle informed by a 1934 Zora Neale Hurston essay, The Characteristics of Negro Expression. The display is set to feature not just garments and accessories, but a range of media that includes drawings, paintings, photographs, and film excerpts.
“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” will be made possible by Louis Vuitton, with other funding from Instagram, the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe and Africa Fashion International, Tyler Perry, and Condé Nast.
“I feel that the show itself marks a really important step in our commitment to diversifying our exhibitions and collections, as well as redressing some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice,” explained Bolton. “It’s very much about making fashion at The Met more of a gateway to access and inclusivity.”
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