Josephine Baker Was All Over the Met Gala Red Carpet

Josephine Baker Was All Over the Met Gala Red Carpet

While the 2025 Met Gala is celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new costume exhibit on Black Dandyism—spotlighting men’s fashion—several stars on the red carpet honored a female Black fashion icon, Josephine Baker, a dancer and civil rights activist who was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. Just like Black dandies, Baker experimented with fashion and was not afraid to go bold. A postcard of Baker in a tuxedo and to…

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Betty Boop Bangs Swooped In and Took Over the Met Gala Red Carpet

Boop-oop-a-doop!Getty Images / ByrdieDid you know there's a Betty Boop musical that just opened on Broadway? It's different from the one I made up as a child while watching old cartoons, and though I haven't seen it yet, I'm sure it's way better.One thing I have seen, though? The '30s illustrated legend's likeness showing up just about everywhere else. At the 2025 Met Gala on Monday, May 5, Betty Boop was on every celebrity's hairstyling mood bo…

The American top was resplendent on this first Monday of May!