Met Gala 2025: Stars don their tailored best in suits, feathers and ties

Monday nighttime marked 1 of the world's biggest nights of fashion, arsenic stars served up their astir iconic looks for the yearly Met Gala successful New York City.

The taxable for this year's lawsuit was "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the archetypal since 2003 to absorption exclusively connected menswear.

It was inspired by a recently unveiled grounds astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art's costume institute featuring the "black dandy", which Vogue says "examines the value of covering and benignant to the enactment of achromatic identities successful the Atlantic diaspora".

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A-list celebrities including Zendaya, Demi Moore and Diana Ross brought their ain mentation to the theme, stunning successful tailored suits and melodramatic gowns.

Here is simply a look astatine immoderate of the highlights:

Demi Moore gave america different circular of method dressing.

Her property circuit for The Substance recalled the assemblage fearfulness themes of the movie, portion her awards run for the relation of Elisabeth Sparkle saw her dressing for the glam statuettes.

Moore understood the duty for the Met Gala, coming arsenic a literal men's necktie successful a sculptural achromatic and achromatic striped sequin gown from Thom Browne.

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny wore a brownish Prada suit, which helium said helium worked connected with the Italian manner location for a fewer months earlier the event.

He besides stayed connected taxable by accessorising with embellished gloves, a brooch and a chapeau that paid homage to his Puerto Rican heritage.

"We did thing special," helium said of his look. "I consciousness good, and I anticipation radical deliberation I'm looking good."

Legendary vocalist Diana Ross wore a show-stopping achromatic ensemble, implicit with feathers and a agelong bid that required astatine slightest 2 assistants.

On the carpet, Ross said her lad persuaded her to be this year's event. The past clip she attended the Met Gala is 2003.

She added she had the names of her children and grandchildren embroidered connected her formal train.

Black British decorator Grace Wales Bonner dressed British Formula One prima Sir Lewis Hamilton for the night. Sir Hamilton was a co-chair of this year's event.

The brace person worked unneurotic successful the past with Wales Bonner dressing Hamilton for the 2023 British Fashion Awards.

Actress Sydney Sweeney wore a customized Miu Miu gown - her 3rd clip wearing the decorator astatine the Met Gala. This time, her formal was implicit with beaded fringe shoulders and golden hardware detailing connected the neck.

Speaking astir her look, Sweeney said it paid homage to histrion and creator Kim Novak. Sweeney is acceptable to represent Novak successful the upcoming movie Scandalous.

New Zealand vocalist Lorde made a uncommon quality astatine the Met Gala this twelvemonth (she has not attended since 2021).

She wore a metallic metallic floor-length skirt set, and a matching bandeau and blazer designed by Thom Browne.

Zendaya, known for her dazzling reddish carpet style, opted for a much lowkey customized Louis Vuitton monochromatic pick suit astatine this year's Met Gala.

Only 1 flimsy popular of colour successful Zendaya's look: her manicured reddish nails.

Olympic gymnast and golden medalist Simone Biles brought a popular of colour to the Met Gala carpet with a striking bluish minidress that featured a collared neckline, a agelong bid and jewelled appliques.

The formal was designed by Harbison Studio.

Singer Coco Jones opted for a look designed by Indian marque Manish Malhotra.

She wore a tailored pick and achromatic look that featured ornate embroidery and a melodramatic long-sleeve coat. Jones besides wore a ample connection necklace and Jimmy Choo heels.

Actor and playwright Colman Domingo could person inspired this year's Met Gala theme, arsenic he's been carrying the baton for well-dressed men connected the reddish carpet for respective years now.

He donned a royal bluish Valentino cloak that paid homage to Andre Leon Talley, erstwhile editor-at-large connected Vogue whom Anna Wintour called "a dandy among dandies."

The cape aboriginal was removed to uncover a 2nd look underneath: a tailored, patterned suit implicit with a large fabric, polka-dotted angiosperm brooch.

Actress and vocalist Teyana Taylor, who hosted Vogue's unrecorded watercourse of the reddish carpet, arrived successful customized Marc Jacobs connected the limb of costume decorator Ruth E. Carter. Ms Carter has worked with filmmaker Spike Lee and connected the Black Panther movie franchise to make immoderate modern popular taste cues for the achromatic dandy.

Taylor wore a burgundy cape embroidered with "Harlem Rose," a motion to her 2018 opus A Rose successful Harlem.

Social media influencer Emma Chamberlain looked crisp and connected taxable with a backless tailored suit formal designed by French manner location Courrèges.

She accessorised the look with a spiky formation blonde pixie chopped and stylish eyeglasses.

Sabrina Carpenter wore a burgundy Louis Vuitton bodysuit that featured each the tailoring of a regular suit.

The vocalist said she worked with signaling creator Pharrell Williams - besides the men's originative manager of Louis Vuitton - connected the bottomless look.

"You're rather short, truthful nary pants for you," Carpenter recalled Williams telling her.

Recording creator Doja Cat wore a customized Marc Jacobs look that featured elephantine enarthrosis pads and a leopard-print bustier panel.

"I conscionable wanted to consciousness similar a small gangsta," she said.

"I consciousness similar helium brought that with the beardown signifier of the shoulders, and each of the exaggerated shapes," Doja Cat said of Jacobs.

Actress Tracee Ellis Ross was 1 of the fewer radical who wore pinkish astatine this year's Met Gala.

She donned a customized Marc Jacobs suit that was implicit with a giant, blistery pinkish bow astatine the back, a matching apical chapeau and immoderate unsocial bling.

In 1 of the much memorable looks of the evening, Andre 3000 showed up to the Met Gala carpet with a achromatic and achromatic soft strapped to his backmost and a trash container arsenic a purse.

The stylish OutKast rapper designed the look himself successful collaboration with Burberry.

Oscar-winning histrion Lupita Nyong'o wore a stunning pulverization bluish Chanel suit, with a matching chapeau and transparent cape.

She accessorised the look with bedazzled, achromatic rhinestone eyebrows.

Doechii took marque practice to caller levels, stamping the celebrated Louis Vuitton logo connected her look to spell on with the motif of her suit.

The American rapper is often seen wearing looks from the French manner house.

This outfit combined the designer's 2 celebrated patterns - the LV monogram signifier connected the waistcoat and jacket, arsenic good arsenic the damier checkerboard connected the shorts.

When asked astir her outfit connected the carpet, Janelle Monáe responded simply - "free" - followed by an expletive.

"And erstwhile I'm successful my suit, that is precisely however I feel," she said.

She wore a Thom Brown suit, with whom she's attended the Met Gala arsenic a impermanent for the past respective years. The look is styled by the Academy Award-winning costume decorator for Wicked, Paul Tazewell.

Pop fable Madonna accessorised her cream-colored tuxedo with a cigar, creating an interplay betwixt brushed feminine materials and a chiseled masculine energy.

It's a dynamic that the superstar has played with passim her career.