Anna Wintour Explains How André Leon Talley Inspired Met Gala 2025 Theme 3 Years After His Death
- Anna Wintour cochaired the 2025 Met Gala, held at the Met in New York City, with the theme Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, highlighting menswear for the first time since 2003.
- Wintour planned the event years ago to honor her late friend André Leon Talley, who died in 2022 and greatly influenced the gala's theme and dress code.
- The gala highlighted Black dandyism through an exhibition featuring 12 aspects of dandy style and urged guests to embrace clothing tailored to their identity and statement.
- Wintour described Talley as brilliant, compassionate, and mercurial, recalling decades of friendship marked by complexity and profound mutual respect.
- This gala demonstrated fashion's power to challenge norms, reflecting cultural history and personal expression through menswear and tailored Black style.
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Many ‘Superfine’ tributes to André Leon Talley at the Met Gala
André Leon Talley’s presence could be felt everywhere at the Met Gala this year. The late creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, who died in 2022 at age 73, heavily influenced the spirit of the costume exhibit, where one of his suits was featured, and the glitzy event itself.
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