Met Gala 2025, May 5 -- The Met Gala, fashion's most exclusive and extravagant annual event, returns to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, May 5, 2025. Officially known as the Costume Institute Benefit, the gala serves as a fundraising event for the museum's Costume Institute and marks the grand opening of its annual fashion exhibit.

Since its transformation under Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in the 1990s, the Met Gala has become a cultural juggernaut blending fashion, art, and celebrity spectacle.

This year's exhibition, themed "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," is a tribute to the artistry and elegance of Black dandyism and its global cultural roots. According to W Magazine, the show draws inspiration from scholar...