(5 May 2025)
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New York – 5 May 2025
1. Medium shot sign
2. Medium shot Balmain jacket by Oliver Rousteing
3. Various shots braided Dior coat by John Galliano, worn by André Leon Talley
4. Various shots exhibition
5. Various shots jacket and jeans with safety pin details by designer Jawara Alleyne
6. Guests posing for photo in front of exhibits
7. Various shots exhibits
8. Various shots crushed silk ensemble by British designer Grace Wales Bonner
9. Various shots exhibits
10. Wide shot brown, orange and yellow cotton and velvet caftan by Nigerian designer Patience Torlowei
11. Various shots exhibits
12. Various shots tan suit from Fear of God’s autumn/winter 2025-26 collection
13. Various shots exhibits
14. Medium shot child’s tan livery coat by Brooks Brothers
15. Various shots ruffled Regency-style shirt worn by Prince
STORYLINE:
It’s the first Monday in May and time for the Met Gala.
The theme this year is menswear. Specifically, the dress code will focus on Black dandyism, tailoring and style.
“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years devoted to menswear. Unlike past shows that highlighted the work of very famous designers like Karl Lagerfeld or Charles James, this exhibit includes a number of up-and-coming designers.
The exhibit covers Black style over several centuries, but the unifying theme is dandyism, and how designers have expressed that ethos through history.
The exhibit, which opens to the public May 10, begins with its own definition: someone who “studies above everything else to dress elegantly and fashionably.”
It is organized it into 12 conceptual sections: Ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, champion, respectability, jook, heritage, beauty, cool and cosmopolitanism.
The “ownership” section begins with two livery coats worn by enslaved people.
It includes a livery coat of tan broadcloth, likely manufactured by Brooks Brothers and worn by an enslaved child or adolescent boy in Louisiana just before the Civil War.
Elsewhere, there’s a contemporary, glittering ensemble by British designer Grace Wales Bonner, made of crushed silk velvet and embroidered with crystals and the cowrie shells historically used as currency in Africa.
There’s also a so-called “dollar bill suit” by the label 3.Paradis — the jacket sporting a laminated one-dollar bill stitched to the breast pocket, meant to suggest the absence of wealth.
Among the gala’s hosts are Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and A$AP Rocky. LeBron James is an honorary chair with Vogue’s Anna Wintour as mastermind.
The gala raises the bulk of the budget for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
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