How to watch Met Gala 2025? Leaked guest list, timings, venue, and all you need to know about 'Tailoring Black Style' event

The Met Gala 2025 is upon us. The upcoming annual fashion event hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dubbed Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, celebrates black excellence by paying homage to black menswear and its progression over the years.

Commonly referred to as fashion’s biggest night, and rightfully so, the Met Gala 2025 will see fashion designers and their celebrity muses express their best representations of the 18th-century black dandy. As per Business Insider Africa, a ticket for the 2025 edition of the illustrious gala comes at a whopping $75,000.

Another alternative to paying the high price for the ticket is to stream the event live. A live stream will be available on Vogue and Teen Vogue’s websites and YouTube channels. E! News will also host a special red carpet broadcast on their channel.

Another livestream will be held on Peacock, YouTube, and other media platforms. The Met Gala 2025 will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 5, 2025, and the red carpet will start around 4:30 pm. EST.

The Met Gala’s official guest list is a closely guarded secret, although Vogue Magazine has reported that the event's co-chairs include Anna Wintour, A$AP ROCKY, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, and Pharrell Williams. Basketball icon LeBron James has also been named an honorary co-chair.

The host committee includes celebrities from all walks of life, including:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Janelle Monáe
• André 3000
• Jordan Casteel
• Dapper Dan
• Edward Enninful
• Doechii
• Rashid Johnson
• Ayo Edebiri
• Edward Enninful
• Jeremy O. HarrisRashid Johnson
• Spike Lee
• Tonya Lewis Lee
• Audra McDonald
• Janelle Monáe
• Jeremy Pope
• Angel Reese
• Sha'Carri Richardson
• Tyla
• Usher
• Kara Walker
• Simone Biles
• La La Anthony
• Teyana Taylor
• Ego Nwodim

Elle Magazine and Page Six reported that celebrities like Bebe Rexha, Madonna, Lauryn Hill, Nick Jonas, Lorde, and Shakira will grace the red carpet of the event.

More details on the Met Gala 2025

A press release from Andrew Bolton, curator of the Met Museum, reads:

"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is our department’s first exhibition devoted to menswear in more than 20 years. The show also reflects our ongoing commitment to diversifying our exhibitions in a way that is authentic to The Costume Institute. What makes it possible to translate Monica’s book, Slaves to Fashion, into an exhibition is our collection of high-style menswear, which serves as a foundation for imagining and realising this important sartorial history."

Bolton has teamed up with Prof. Monica L. Miller, chair of African studies at Barnard College, as an invited curator. Miller, in a press statement, described the Tailoring Black Style exhibition as a medium to explore questions on identity, mobility, and representation as they pertain to race, s*xuality, and power.

The 2025 Met Gala exhibition will have twelve sections: Respectability, Cosmopolitanism, Ownership, Presence, Beauty, Distinction, Disguise, Heritage, Cool, Freedom, Jook, and Champion.

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