US EditionInside the 2025 Met Gala exhibit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the exhibit Superfine: Tailoring Black Style on May 3, 2025, in New York during the Met Gala event.
- The exhibit focuses exclusively on Black designers and menswear for the first time in over 20 years, highlighting emerging talents like Agbobly.
- Monica L. Miller, a professor at Barnard College and author of a book on Black dandyism, serves as the exhibit's guest curator and highlights the exploration of Black representation throughout history and across different regions.
- The exhibition includes historic items from figures like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois alongside contemporary pieces reflecting African heritage, such as Agbobly’s bright-colored ensembles inspired by West African migrant culture.
- The exhibit highlights a Black middle and upper-middle class emerging from abolitionism and slavery, showing how dressing above one’s station signaled respectability and transition to liberation.
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Inside the 2025 Met Gala exhibit
When the email came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Agbobly at first didn’t quite believe it.The Brooklyn-based fashion designer had only been in the business for five years. Now, one of the world’s top museums was asking for two of his designs to be shown in "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the exhibit launched by the starry Met Gala.“I was just floored with excitement,” Agbobly said in an interview. “I had to check to make sure…
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