Celebrities have once again marked the spirits of the Gala of the Metropolitan Museum in new York by competing with imagination for their outfits.
Celebrities swept this Metropolitan Museum Museum in New York, marked this year by a tribute to black fashion influences on the steady, 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 posed in an infinite detail outfit: cane in hand, feather hat on her head, she wears a suit enhanced with silver chains on a stuck vest with buttons, under an impressive red -catering cape where roses are taking shape.
In the competition of the largest train, could we compete with that several meters long of singer Diana Ross, who had the names of her children and grandchildren embroidered?
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Like every year, Rihanna was long overdue. But she took advantage of the evening to publish a photo of her, rounded belly, in the streets of New York, synonymous with the third child to come with A $ AP Rocky. “Thank you, thank you, thank you (…) We are really happy,” confirmed the rapper on the Met marches.
The singer of the Barbados, who became a billionaire businesswoman, finally arrived very late, hat on a large edges on her head, gray skirt tied in the back and mini-vest to better highlight her plump belly.
A worldly 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 the New York Times. In 2025, the evening should bring in $ 31 million, unveiled the director general of Met Max Hollein.
-But the high priestess of fashion, the editor in the Cheffe de Vogue, Anna Wintour, also made it a carved event for social networks. The “Met Gala” has a new theme each year that coincides with the major 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.
This complex story 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.
“Black Lives Matter”
Other co-presidents of the Gala, the Formula 1 pilot Lewis Hamilton scrolls in impeccable cream suit matching his beret and brilliant diamonds, while the artist Pharrell Williams wears a short white jacket encrusted with pearls.
At the foot of the steps, they listened to a choir singing the song Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Made famous by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. On the music side, we also saw the rapper Andre 3000 in full eccentricity, bearing the replica of a piano on his back, like a burden.
The theme of the evening is part of the quest for diversity of American cultural institutions, five years after the immense wave of anti -racist protest of the movement “Black Lives Matter” triggered by the death of George Floyd, killed by 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, who does not hide his support from the Democratic Party.
Honorary president of the evening, the living legend of American basketball Lebron James had to forfeit, 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.
