The 2025 Met Gala has formally kicked off — as a result of Zendaya simply made her entrance.
The Euphoria star, 28, confirmed up solo sporting a crisp, all-white Louis Vuitton by Pharrell Williams swimsuit paired with a dramatic outsized hat. It’s modern, placing and completely tailor-made — and precisely what followers count on from a crimson carpet icon like her.
Zendaya’s been one of the crucial talked-about friends on the Met Gala for practically a decade. She’s made appearances in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2024 (when she served as a co-chair). Her appears to be like are at all times a second — and this 12 months, she’s holding that custom alive, even with one massive change: her longtime stylist Regulation Roach wasn’t at her facet.
As an alternative, Regulation confirmed they’d be going about issues a bit in another way this 12 months. “We’re going to be on the Met Gala steps, sure, [but] individually this 12 months,” he instructed E! Information in April. “That’s going to be actually superb. We’re doing our personal factor this 12 months, which is thrilling.”
This 12 months’s theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Model, aligns with the Costume Institute’s spring exhibit and focuses on the artwork of suiting via the lens of Black trend and identification. The open-ended gown code — “Tailor-made For You” — inspired friends to reinterpret menswear in ways in which felt private, expressive, and intentional.
The exhibit was impressed by Monica L. Miller’s 2009 ebook Slaves to Style: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Id. “Dandyism can appear frivolous, but it surely usually poses a problem to or a transcendence of social and cultural hierarchies,” Miller stated in a press launch. She continued, “It asks questions on identification, illustration, and mobility in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, and energy… ‘Superfine’ [refers] not solely to the standard of a specific material — ‘superfine wool’ — but additionally as a specific perspective associated to feeling particularly good in a single’s personal physique, in garments that categorical the self.”
It’s the primary time since 2003 that the Met Gala has centered menswear. This 12 months’s co-chairs embody Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams. Anna Wintour returns as traditional — and LeBron James is stepping in as an honorary chair.
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