The 2025 Costume Institute exhibition on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type,” seems to be to rejoice the artistry and craft distinctive to tailoring via the lens of Black male fashion. The exhibition, which was impressed by Monica Miller’s “Slaves to Vogue,” explores Black male id and expression via the sartorial lens of dandyism as a method to outline a way of life of wealth, distinction and style.
Vogue and dandyism fanatics will instantly recall writings about historic vogue determine and dandy Beau Brummell, an arbiter of males’s fashion within the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries. But the time period “dandy” is an agile descriptor, relevant to the evolution of males’s vogue selections — whether or not particular person or culturally impressed — over a long time.
Miller, the primary cocurator of a Costume Institute exhibition and first Black girl to have this distinction, is joined by A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and Pharrell Williams — the primary all-Black male Met Gala committee. Every committee member is famous for his or her world vogue affect throughout the genres of music, sports activities and leisure. They’re included in WWD’s celebration of the 2025 Met Gala theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type” alongside icons of fashion and leisure, captured within the pages of WWD over a long time. Included listed below are actor Sidney Poitier, basketball legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier, and entertainer Little Richard, amongst others, whose particular person fashion transcends race, gender and id.
