The Met Museum just lately introduced their 2025 theme: “Superfine, Tailoring Black Fashion,” drawing inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 guide, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”
In keeping with Vogue, “The exhibit will discover the indelible type of Black males within the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century by way of current day.” The 2025 #MetGala chairs are all #blackmen : Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the 2025 Gala, alongside honorary chair LeBron James.
At a press convention concerning the exhibit, Pharrell stated, “We’re the survivors of what’s maybe essentially the most intense hardships, trials, and tribulations to ever bedevil a bunch of human beings. Not solely did we survive, we carried music, tradition, the sweetness and the common language throughout an ocean and a quadruple century. That’s what this 12 months’s Met Gala will rejoice. Us. We’re a museum.”
Hopefully the exhibit may also rejoice one of the vital iconic black dandies of the twenty first century: Andre Leon Talley.
We additionally hope that Dapper Dan might be given his flowers for his contributions to the tradition and black Dandyism.
And if the exhibit doesn’t, visitors undoubtedly will.
At face worth, that is thrilling!
We all know that black type is electrical, although typically missed and imitated within the vogue trade. We are able to solely hope that subsequent 12 months’s gala might be a real celebration of black type and black designers–a change we’ve been calling for for years. And you recognize Style Bomb Day by day has to be within the constructing.
What do you suppose?
