The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute announced the theme for next year’s exhibit and the co-hosts, like A$AP Rocky, for the 2025 Met Gala.
The 2025 Met Gala theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which is said to be an expression of Black dandyism. The exact dress code has yet to be announced.
The show is inspired by Monica Miller’s work, a professor and chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, and her book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.” The exhibit will be guest-curated by Miller and the Met’s Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton. The Met exhibition, which opens with the Met Gala,Miller described Black dandyism as “a strategy and a tool to rethink identity, to reimagine the self in a different context.
For his part, Bolton, who discovered Miller’s work during his research for the 2021 Costume Institute show, said “I think a lot of Black designers today are exploring the different modalities that the Black dandy represents—things like freedom, dissonance, theatricality.” The exhibit will be organized into 12 characteristics of Black dandy, an approach inspired by a 1934, “The Characteristics of Negro Expression.
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