Met Gala: Fashion's biggest night of the year is here. Here's how to watch and follow along

NEW YORK – Pharrell Williams has precocious hopes for the Met Gala, the archetypal to absorption exclusively connected Black designers, and the archetypal successful much than 20 years to person a menswear theme.

“I privation it to consciousness similar the astir epic nighttime of power, a reflection of Black resiliency successful a satellite that continues to beryllium colonized, by which I mean policies and authorities that are thing abbreviated of that,” helium precocious told Vogue.

“It's our turn.”

Indeed. And welcome to the archetypal Monday successful May.

How to ticker the 2025 Met Gala

Vogue volition livestream the gala starting astatine 6 p.m. Eastern connected Vogue.com, its YouTube channel and crossed its different integer platforms. Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony and Ego Nwodim volition big the stream. Emma Chamberlain volition besides bash interviews connected the carpet.

The Associated Press volition livestream personage departures from the Mark Hotel opening astatine 5 p.m. Eastern and volition watercourse the gala carpet connected hold opening astatine 6:30 p.m. The feeds volition beryllium disposable connected YouTube and APNews.com.

E! volition statesman unrecorded sum astatine 6 p.m. connected TV. The livestream volition beryllium disposable connected Peacock, E! Online and YouTube, on with the network's different societal media feeds.

Who’s hosting the 2025 Met Gala?

This year, the fundraising gala astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosted by a radical of Black antheral celebrities, including Williams, the philharmonic creator and Louis Vuitton menswear director, and Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, and A$AP Rocky, with NBA superstar LeBron James arsenic honorary chair. They're joined by Vogue's Anna Wintour, the mastermind down the gala, considered the year's biggest and starriest party.

Also guaranteed to amusement up is simply a 2nd tier of hosts from a assortment of worlds: athletes Simone Biles and hubby Jonathan Owens; Angel Reese and Sha’Carri Richardson; filmmakers Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Regina King; actors Ayo Edebiri, Audra McDonald and Jeremy Pope; musicians Doechii, Usher, Tyla, Janelle Monáe and André 3000; writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; artists Jordan Casteel, Rashid Johnson and Kara Walker; playwrights Jeremy O. Harris and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; and manner figures Grace Wales Bonner, Edward Enninful, Dapper Dan and Olivier Rousteing.

The gala raises the bulk of the curation fund for the museum’s Costume Institute.

This year's Met Gala formal codification is...

It's much similar a steadfast suggestion. From Wintour. This year, it's astir tailoring and suiting arsenic interpreted done the past and meaning of Black dandyism crossed the Atlantic diaspora. The theme is inspired by the yearly outpouring exhibition, which this twelvemonth is based successful ample portion connected “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” a publication written by Monica L. Miller. She is impermanent curator of the exhibit.

“Historical manifestations of dandyism scope from implicit precision successful formal and tailoring to flamboyance and fabulousness successful formal and style,” Miller writes successful the grounds catalog. “Whether a dandy is subtle oregon spectacular, we admit and respect the deliberateness of the dress, the self-conscious display, the scope for tailored perfection, and the sometimes subversive self-expression.”

How the formal codification goes, successful presumption of sensation and style, is anyone's guess. Wintour has a manus successful virtually each things gala, truthful the presumption is things can't spell excessively acold disconnected the rails. She precocious knocked down the rumor that she approves each looks, telling “Good Morning America” she'll measurement successful if asked.

The exhibit, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” draws connected different sources beyond Miller's book. It's organized into 12 sections. Each symbolizes a diagnostic of dandy style arsenic defined by Zora Neale Hurston successful her 1934 essay, “Characteristics of Negro Expression.”

Among them: ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, respectability and heritage. Presumably, for gala guests who bash deep-dive probe (or person stylists to bash it), immoderate of these factors volition play retired connected the depository steps that service arsenic the event's reddish carpet.

Who other is going to amusement up?

The impermanent database amounts to astir 450 high-profile radical from tech, sports, art, amusement and more. The mix, Williams said, is simply a must.

“It’s truthful important to maine to person palmy Black and brownish radical of each stripe successful the room: not conscionable athletes and actors and actresses, entertainers, but besides authors, architects, folks from the fintech world," helium told Vogue. “We’ve got to put successful each other. We’ve got to link with each other, due to the fact that it’s going to instrumentality everybody to coalesce the unit of Black and brownish genius into 1 strong, reliable force.”

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