On paper, the Met Gala is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but in reality it’s the world’s biggest night in fashion.
More than just a red carpet event, the Met Gala is a spectacle.
We’ll be updating this page as the stars arrive, but here are some of the looks we’ve seen so far:
Rihanna is the QUEEN of Met Gala. That’s all that needs to be said — but sounds like there could be a prince or princess on the way. (Getty: Gilbert Flores)
I can totally picture Miranda Kerr saying “hey mate, I turned your tuxe into a dress, whattayathink?” in this. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Chappell Roan looks like she went to a fairy godmother with offcuts and, with a wave of a magic wand, this outfit was conjured up. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
LISA wearing the perfect outfit for the formal signing of papers that legally entitle you to the property empire of your enemy. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz demonstrate exactly what coordinated outfits should look like. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Andre 3000 wears exactly the outfit we’d picture to fit the theme if we had the wild, unhinged imagination and straight-up gall of his stylist. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Adut Akech wears a regal power suit that makes me think of galahs in a totally different (and much more glamorous) light. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Walton Goggins clearly having too much fun on the red (well, technically it’s blue-and-daffodil-printed) carpet. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
You might first remark on the wire around Jaden Smith’s face, but it’s that cloak that leaves the lasting impression. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Demi Moore looks like a giant, glittery pinstriped tie that’s just about to be tightened — which is exactly the kind of spectacle the Met Gala demands! (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Colman Domingo wearing a cape that both stands up as an outfit on its own, but also screams out to be shrugged off dramatically to reveal something completely extra underneath. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
… and there it is. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
With all due respect, you’d be an absolute dingbat to expect anything less than a sparkly, fluffy monster of a train from Diana Ross at the Met Gala. (Reuters: Mario Anzuoni)
I’m picturing Zendaya turning up to a garden party thrown by the enemies of her teen years, openly defying the “frills and florals” theme on the invitation, drinking exactly one-and-a-half martinis, saying something crushing and then leaving. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
There’s so much to say about Andra Day’s outfit, but it feels like it would be disrespectful to those magnificent bejewelled opera binoculars not to give them top billing. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Cynthia Erivo in an outfit that needs to come with its own gothic cathedral organ to soundtrack every single step in those boots. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Anna Wintour is sticking with the theme by draping over her shoulders a jacket that’s so long it transcends the practicalities of a mere coat — that thing is a clearly a cape. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Lewis Hamilton demonstrates the power of a brooch and beret. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Venus Williams wearing the sports uniform every extremely extra little netballer dreamed they had in school — complete with an absolutely essential glittery collar. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Sydney Sweeney playing the villain who, despite how dark her schemes may get, you couldn’t help but feel fabulous for being personally victimised by. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Coco Jones wears the exact outfit you’d expect an ice princess who lives in a crystal palace would wear to a board meeting where she plans to turn the tables on stuffy chairperson. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Anne Hathaway is what we all imagine we look like when we wear a white button-up shirt from an op-shop. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Gabrielle Union embodying a combination of both demure and deadly that needs to feature in a modern noir film immediately. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Sabrina Carpenter ready to star in a Broadway musical about a 1930s publishing heiress who gets fed up with the patriarchy and turns into a Robin-Hood-style crime boss. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
… but she’d have her minions hold her coat tails during her tap-dancing solo. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Pairing that very unsubtle shirt with that even more unsubtle suit of Joey King’s was a stroke of genius. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Whoopi Goldberg’s outfit didn’t need that many buttons — which is precisely why it needed that many buttons. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
You can just imagine Doja Cat issuing stern orders down one of those old-timey telephones before screeching out of the joint in a classic convertible in this outfit. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Lorde is using a suit jacket as more of an accessory than a piece of warm clothing. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
If I told you there was a new version of Dracula coming out except it was about a countess vampire and was set in the 1930s, would you be picturing Nicole Scherzinger in exactly this outfit? (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
Zoe Saldana’s haircut is very much part of this outfit. (AP: Invision/Evan Agostini)
What’s the 2025 Met Gala theme?
The 2025 Met Gala theme is “Superfine: Tailoring black Style”.
The theme is inspired by Monica L Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
It coincides with the opening of a new exhibition in the gallery, which will “present a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy”, the Met says.
What’s the dress code?
The dress code is Tailored for You.
