Doechii, Colman Domingo and Sha’Carri Richardson among queer stars set for Meta Gala
Doechii, Colman Domingo, and Sha’Carri Richardson are helping host the 2025 Met Gala (Getty)
Doechii, Colman Domingo, and Sha’Carri Richardson are helping host the 2025 Met Gala (Getty)
The fashion extravaganza that is the Met Gala is just days away. Set to take place on Monday (5 May), the theme of this year’s event is Tailored for You, in step with the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.
It will be the first time since 2003’s Men in Skirts that the focus will be on menswear, and is inspired by Monica Miller’s book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
One of the co-chairpersons will be Emmy-winning actor Colman Domingo. The Rustin star has become a strong presence on red carpets over the past few years and is never one to shy away from making an impression. Joining him will be singers Pharrell Williams and A$AP Rocky, former FI racing world champion Lewis Hamilton and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Basketball legend LeBron James will be an honorary co-chairman.
This year’s committee includes the Grammy-Award-winning rapper Doechii, as well The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri, former British Vogue fashion guru Edward Enninful, singer Janelle Monáe, Pose star Jeremy Pope, and athlete Sha’Carri Richardson, who has said she was “beyond excited” to help host the event “celebrating the undeniable impact of Black creativity on fashion and culture”.
Richardson went on to say: “Our style isn’t just what we wear, it’s how we move, how we own our space, how we tell our story without saying a word. Fashion sets us apart but it also brings us together, whether you’re shining on the track, commanding the stage or just making the streets of New York your runway.”
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art website said: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style explores the importance of sartorial style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. [It] chronicles the ways in which Black people have used dress and fashion to transform their identities and imagine new ways of embodying political and social possibilities.
“The exhibition interprets the concept as both an aesthetic and a strategy, using garments, paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, literary texts and film to explore this cultural and historical phenomenon from the 18th century to today.”
What is the Met Gala?
Organised by Wintour, the event celebrates fashion and raises money for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
About 600 guests are invited to the exclusive event with an emphasis being on the looks.
Many memorable outfits were first seen at the event, including Lady Gaga’s numerous reveals at 2019’s Camp: Notes on Fashion, and, last year, host Zendaya, wearing custom Maison Margiela, by John Galliano.
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