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With the Met Gala 2025 — cochaired by Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams, A$AP Rocky and more — just months away, Vogue has unveiled the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” theme’s official dress code.
The only Monday of the year worth celebrating is nearly here.
With the Met Gala 2025 set to take place on May 5, Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute have officially unveiled this year’s dress code “Tailored For You,” as well as the annual event’s host committee.
This year, the event — which takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday of May every year — will be helmed by Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, F1 racer Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams. Los Angeles Lakers star player LeBron James will also serve as an honorary chair for the occasion, as well as Vogue editor Anna Wintour taking her annual spot on the committee.
The theme, announced in October, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, centres around “sartorial style” in forming Black identities, with a focus on the “Black dandy,” the 18th century looks investigated in Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. In her research, which inspired the upcoming Costume Institute exhibit, Miller explores Black men’s use of style to “transform identities,” and “imagine new ways of embodying political and social possibilities.”
But while the theme will be “Superfine”, the dress code, officially announced Feb. 4, offers a slightly different assignment.
While the Met’s annual exhibit will be an homage to menswear, the guests attending the 2025 gala have been offered the “Tailored For You” dress code that is “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation.”
In other words, bold embodiments of menswear seem to be encouraged, but not necessarily required.
Each year, the Met Gala tends to leave its official guest list under wraps until each star finally takes their walk up the museum steps, but an additional host committee on top of the party’s cochairs gives some insight on who is on the shortlist.
This year, Grammy winner Doechii, Olympic track star Sha’Carri Richardson, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Lee, WNBA player Angel Reese, Janelle Monaé, Usher and Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens are among the star-on this year’s committee.
How much it costs to attend the Met Gala
If you’re lucky enough to score an invite to fashion’s biggest event of the year, a solo ticket costs $30 000, while a table is yours for $275 000. Fortunately, not everyone has to pay to attend, as Anna Wintour is known to invite up-and-coming designers to the gala. And, usually, the celebrities invited specifically to model a designer’s work on the carpet don’t have to pony up either.
And the steep price tag isn’t enough to deter the rest of the stylish set: There is actually a waitlist.
“I’ve known of society names who couldn’t get a ticket and are prepped to go if there’s a last-minute seat that becomes available,” vintage store owner Cameron Silver, who has attended the event several times, revealed to Page Six in 2017.
“They have their look ready even if they aren’t certain of whether they will actually have a seat days before the event.”
Number of attendees
It varies, with 500 being considered small and cozy and 800, the largest number of attendees the Met Gala has ever entertained, being deemed too big.
“We do want the experience to feel intimate for our guests,” Vogue’s Sylvana Ward Durrett told Fast Company in 2017, “so in the past few years, we’ve really scaled back and dropped numbers by almost 200 or 300 people.”
Despite its reputation for opulence and glam, the organisers actually want the event to feel exclusive for the lucky few who get to attend, with Wintour usually starting the list with the hopes of keeping it at 500.
“We want to keep this an intimate setting because that’s why people come to this,” Ward Durrett is overheard saying in The First Monday in May. And just because a celebrity is invited doesn’t mean they automatically get a plus-one for their significant other; their partner must also land an invite of their own.
