Black dandyism is on display at the Met Gala.
The 2025 Met Gala’s theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The night is spotlighting Black dandyism, which reaches at least as far back as the Harlem Renaissance from 1918 to the mid-1930s style.
One of the co-chairs of the Met Gala, A$AP Rocky, said jokingly in a Vogue pre-gala interview that he was upset that actor and fellow co-chair Colman Domingo was his grandmother’s favorite.
“I’m feeling some kind of way,” he said, laughing. “He stole my whole grandma. She’s in love with him.”
Gigi Hadid donned a golden glittering dress designed by Miu Miu, telling Vogue that she worked with fashion editor and stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, to pay homage to Zelda Wynn Valdes, a fashion designer who in the 1940s was trained by her uncle in mens’ tailoring and went on to open her own dress-making store in New York City’s Washington Heights.
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