The Met Gala has announced the theme for 2025: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”
This year’s theme which was “The Garden of Time” sparked some controversy for playing it too safe, however the theme for next year is homing in on fashion history and will definitely be more groundbreaking.
The “Tailoring Black Style” draws inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”
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The exhibition, which will be made possible with Louis Vuitton, will pay homage to the fashion and style of black people from the 18th century to the modern day. There will be a focus on Black dandyism which is a term used to describe fashionably dressed black men who prioritised how they looked. The exhibition will travel through time to depict famous dandys through the years all the way to modern examples such as A$AP Rocky and Prince.
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Met curator Andrew Bolton told Vogue: “I feel like the show itself marks a really important step in our commitment to diversifying our exhibitions and collections, as well as redressing some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice. It’s very much about making fashion at the Met more of a gateway to access inclusivity.”
The aim of the theme is to show that black individuals have evolved from being enslaved and fashioned as a luxury item to being emancipated and autonomous fashion leaders across the globe.
Next year’s Met Gala theme will be the first since the 2003 “men in skirts” theme that focuses solely on menswear. The co-chairs are also all male (with the exception of Anna Wintour). Expect to see, Pharell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and honorary co-chair Lebron James.
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