Madonna, Angèle, Demi Moore … In pictures, the red carpet of the Met Gala 2025

Torrential rain, celebrities that fight against the wind, then the barricades of the 5th avenue which yield and lead a horde of fans to cross the security barrier. This May 5 in New York at the gates of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the atmosphere started on a dramatic note. What dramatically inaugurate the festivities of this new edition of the Met Gala which, every first Monday in May, launches the museum’s annual fashion exhibition. A charity gala that lifts funds to support Anna Wintour Costume Institute, and stands out as the worldly event par excellence, where extravagant costumes mix with imperial dresses and creator tailors. A prestigious ceremony co -worked this year by Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A $ AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour, while LeBron James had the privilege of being the honorary president.

After Sleeping Beauties : Reawakening Fashion (Sleeping beauties: Waking fashion, in French) in 2024, the new theme of the exhibition, baptized Superfine : Tailoring black Stylethis time invites to highlight the famous figure of the black dandy while examining the importance of clothing and style in the formation of black identities within the diaspora. From Men in Skirts (Men in skirt, in French) presented twenty-two years earlier, this exhibition by Anna Wintour Costume Institute is therefore the first to focus exclusively on male fashion. A highly political theme in this America more than ever divided since the election of Donald Trump at the end of 2024.

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“cut for you”

The latter is also naturally confused with the dress code Imposed on the guests who, in this put Gala 2025, is none other than “Tailored for You” (cut for you, in French). Here, it is difficult not to see a benchmark for the impeccable tailoring of the great figures of the black dandies that marked the eras: from the tuxedos of the American singer Sammy Davis to the velvet coins of Jimi Hendrix, passing by the legendary journalist Mode André Leon Talley and his imposing silk capes. This last face seems to have spoken a lot to Colman Domingo. The American actor indeed landed on the red carpet accompanied by Anna Wintour and Lewis Hamilton, dressed for the occasion of a Valentino Oversize costume hidden under an imposing Roy Blue Cape at the XXL pass embroidered with sequins.

For its part, the notion of “tailor-made” was interpreted by Venus Williams through a green set of tennis player, sublimated by a matching cape. Regarding the theatrical, never far away at the Met Gala, impossible to miss the presence of Diana Ross who caused a sensation by landing dressed in an interminable feathered cape in the blink of an oversized hair cover, or Pamela Anderson, wearing a short fringe, the body carved in a silver dress. Without omitting the half Moore bewitching, this time adorned with a brilliant dress striped at the surreal top. At Met Gala, the too much never existed. And that evening, it was not Madonna, cigar in hand, who said the opposite …