From the most refined taxes to Afro aesthetics to the least successful choices on the red carpet: this is who really interpreted the spirit of the Met Gala 2025 and who, instead, missed the target
With the title Superfins: Black Style Tailoringthe Met Gala 2025 chooses to celebrate the wealth, power and depth of African American tailoring culture. The annual charity event of the Costume Institute thus transforms the red carpet (this year tinged with blue) of the Metropolitan Museum of New York into a stage of refined identity affirmation, in which the dress becomes a political declaration, collective memory, gesture of pride and style.
The exhibition to which the theme is inspired investigates the evolution of tailoring blacks from nineteenth -century ceremonial dresses to contemporary fashion, with a look at the contaminations between Savile Row and Harlem, between dandism and streetwear, between heritage and innovation. A journey between double -breasted jackets, sculpted silhouettes, precious fabrics and rewritten codes, which tell the way in which fashion was – and continues to be – an instrument of self -determination in the Afrodiscendant community.
On the red carpet, celebrities and designers interpret the theme with looks that oscillate between rigor and theatricality, between classicism and rebellion, paying homage to iconic figures such as Dapper Dan in André Leon Talley.
In this edition full of meaning, where tailoring is not only aesthetic but also history, the Met Gala 2025 confirms once again how fashion is the mirror of the culture and engine of change.
