by Jeroslyn JoVonn
February 5, 2025
Met Gala’s 2025 host committee is full of Black expertise throughout artwork, tradition, trend, movie, music, and sports activities.
The 2025 Met Gala guarantees to highlight Black excellence with a “Tailor-made for You” costume code and a bunch committee that includes Black A-list expertise from the worlds of artwork, tradition, trend, movie, music, and sports activities.
Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams have been beforehand introduced as co-chairs of this 12 months’s Met Gala alongside Vogue Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour, and LeBron James, who will function honorary chair. On Tuesday, The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork introduced the actors, artists, athletes, designers, filmmakers, musicians, and writers that may help the night’s festivities as a part of the host committee.
Display stars included on this 12 months’s host committee embody Ayo Edebiri, Regina King, and Jeremy Pope. Filmmakers who will host embody Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, together with theater creatives Audra McDonalds, actor/playwright Jeremy O. Harris, and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Artists who will function hosts are Rashid Johnson and painters Jordan Casteel and Kara Walker.
Designers embody the famend Dapper Dan, British clothier Grace Wales Bonner, and Olivier Rousteing. Athletes embody Olympic gold gymnast Simone Biles and her NFL star husband Jonathan Owens, WNBA star Angel Reese, and Olympic gold monitor and discipline star Sha’Carri Richardson.
“I’m past excited to face with my fellow Host Committee members in supporting The Met and this 12 months’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, celebrating the simple affect of Black creativity on trend and tradition for hundreds of years,” Richardson stated in a press release.
“Our fashion isn’t simply what we put on—it’s how we transfer, how we personal our area, how we inform our story with out saying a phrase. Style units us aside, but it surely additionally brings us collectively—whether or not you’re shining on the monitor, commanding the stage, or simply making the streets of New York your runway. On Might 5, our gentle will proceed shining on the facility of fashion, and belief me, you don’t wanna miss it.”
Writers embody creator and activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Edward Kobina Enninful, the Ghanaian-born British editor and stylist who beforehand served as editor-in-chief of British Vogue and European editorial director of Condé Nast. Music stars included within the host committee are André 3000, Doechii, Janelle Monáe, Tyla, and Usher.
“I’m honored to be a part of such a long-standing custom with The Met,” Usher stated. “The theme this 12 months isn’t solely well timed but additionally speaks to our wealthy tradition that ought to all the time be extensively celebrated.”
Elevating the celebration of Black excellence, Chef Kwame Onwuachi will craft the Met Gala menu, whereas artist Cy Gavin will oversee the inventive path for the pink carpet design. Further décor ideas might be led by Derek McLane and Raúl Àvila.
“I’m thrilled and honored to be creating the eating expertise for this 12 months’s Met Gala,” Onwuachi stated. “As a chef who grew up within the Bronx, being part of such an iconic New York establishment for essentially the most celebrated, star-studded night time of the 12 months is sort of a skilled dream come true. And as a lover of excessive trend, collaborating on the theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Fashion, brings a complete new stage of inspiration for me and my staff to work with.”
The night’s costume code, “Tailor-made for You,” pays homage to the exhibition’s exploration of suiting and menswear. It highlights distinctive silhouettes, materials, and equipment, providing each steering and room for inventive expression.
The Met Gala is about to happen on Might 5, 2025. “Superfine: Tailoring Black Fashion” might be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from Might 10 via October 26, 2025.
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