US EditionMet Gala pays tribute Black style and menswear with help from Zendaya, Pharrell and Teyana Taylor
- The Met Gala was held in New York City on May 5, 2025, to mark the launch of the exhibition titled 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.'
- The event emphasized menswear inspired by Black dandyism and tailoring traditions reflecting Harlem's 1940s Zoot Suit culture.
- Attendees included Anna Wintour, Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Emma Chamberlain, Teyana Taylor, and Sydney Sweeney, showcasing pinstripe gowns and tuxedos.
- Pharrell wore a jacket with 15,000 pearls that took 400 hours to create, while Domingo’s look evoked fashion icon André Leon Talley, a notable Black Vogue editor.
- The gala’s theme spotlighted Black cultural style and influenced fashion by blending traditional menswear with feminine silhouettes, as noted by William Dingle of blackmenswear.com.
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Met Gala pays tribute to Black fashion and designers and includes Rihanna pregnancy surprise
NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala on Monday included a Rihanna pregnancy announcement, a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain, Zendaya, Teyana Taylor and many other women in pinstripes and other traditional men’s detailing.
Jordan Casteel Honors Her Grandmother at the Met Gala
The first time the painter Jordan Casteel saw the dress Charles Elliot Harbison designed for her to wear to this year’s Met Gala, she immediately started to cry. “Not only was it beautiful to see this garment that is tailored quite literally for me,” she said from her couch after her final fitting for what will be her first time attending the event. “It is something that feels like they were thinking about me from the beginning to the end in des…
Rooting For Everybody Black: All The Black Celebs At Met Gala 2025
Photo: Getty Images Black celebrities showed out on fashion’s biggest night. On Monday (May 5), the 2025 Met Gala celebrated Black designers, creativity, and resistance under the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” A-listers were asked to dress to impress while embodying Black dandyism, which dates back to 18th-century Europe and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Dandyism was initially a trend imposed on Black men, who ushered in an era of the “fa…
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