Celebrities swept over the evening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) from new York, marked this year by the presence of Kamala Harris and a tribute to black influences on fashion, a theme that resonates in Trumpist America.
For an evening, the steps of the prestigious museum of the 5th avenue de Manhattan, backed by Central Park, become the “red carpet” most scrutinized on social networks.
The event, which is used to finance the costume Institute, the fashion department of the prestigious New York museum, attracts crowds of fashionistas ready to wait for hours on the sidewalk to capture an image on their smartphone.
Among the first to dazzle these “fashion Oscars”, the actress and musician Teyana Taylor. She put cane in hand, pen hat on her head, wearing a suit enhanced with silver chains on a stove with buttons, under an impressive glowing cape decorated with roses.
Just as exuberant, Diana Ross walks in front of a train several meters long where the names of her children and grandchildren are embroidered. Like every year, Rihanna has spared her effects. She first published on her Instagram account a photo of her, rounded belly, in the streets of New York, synonymous with the third child to come with Asap Rocky. “”Thank you, thank you, thank you (…) We are really happy“Confirmed the rapper on the Mette steps.
The singer of the Barbados, who became a billionaire businesswoman, finally arrived very late, hat wide on her head, gray skirt tied in the back and mini-vintage to better highlight her plump belly.
A few days after having delivered his first major speech after his defeat in the November presidential election, Kamala Harris also participated in the gala, according to a photo distributed by the account of the Democratic Party on X.
She wore a black and white silk dress drawn by the creator of Off-White Ib Kamara, but we have not seen her show off on the steps in front of the dozens of cameras and goals massaged on each side.
Mondaine evening par excellence, the gala is one of the most selective events on the planet, where the place at dinner costs $ 75,000, according to figures from New York Times. In 2025, the evening should bring in $ 31 million, unveiled the director general of Met Max Hollein. The high priestess of fashion, editor in the magazine of magazine VogueAnna Wintour, has also made it a pruned event for social networks, with a theme that coincides with the great annual exhibition of the Institute costume.
In 2025, it was an ambitious exploration of the influences of black diasporas on American fashion, like the black dandies, an aesthetic inherited from slavery that has become symbol of elegance and emancipation. The theme is part of the quest for diversity of American cultural institutions, five years after the immense wave of anti -racist protest of the Black Lives Matter movement launched by the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by the police.
It takes on a particular dimension when Donald Trump, returned to power, abolishes federal funds on any diversity promotion initiative. “”It is obvious that this exhibition was planned many years ago and that we did not know what would happen in the political arena, but it takes on a new importance and a new reason for being“Said Anna Wintour to AFP, who does not hide his support from the Democratic Party.
On the steps, the complex history of black influences on fashion is revisited in all its forms. The new Rap Doechii star has an Afro cut and a large cigar to accompany a short jacket and a Louis Vuitton shorts. Actor Colman Domingo, appointed co-president of the 2025 edition, has a royal blue cape in tribute to the late André Leon Talley-the first African-American creative director at Vogue.
Other co -presidents of the Gala, the Formula 1 pilot Lewis Hamilton scrolls in impeccable cream suit matching his brilliant beret and diamonds, while the artist Pharrell Williams wears a short white jacket encrusted with pearls.
Honorary president of the evening, the living legend of American basketball LeBron James had to forfeit him because of a knee injury. But the sports stars, more and more present on fashion podiums, are there, from the champion of gymnastics Simone Biles to the sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, passing by the new stars of women’s basketball, Angel Reese, Sabrina Ionescu, or Breanna Stewart.
