2025 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love

By NPR Staff

Published May 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM PDT

Met Gala Co-Chair, A$AP Rocky attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

The first Monday night in May is the Met Gala, famously known as fashion's greatest night. Celebrities in imaginative ensembles ascend the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to raise money for the museum.

This year's gala hosts include actor Colman Domingo, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, rapper A$AP Rocky, producer and designer Pharrell Williams.

Attendees are expected to follow the "Tailored for You" theme and they will be visiting the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition, which highlights how clothing and style is connected to Black identities. Monica Miller is the show's guest-curator and it is inspired by her 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

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Here are some of the red carpet outfits from the night:

Justice Smith attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Jon Batiste performs while attending the 2025 Met Gala.

A detail of Swizz Beatz's outfit as he arrives at the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating.

Jodie Turner-Smith arrives at the 2025 Met Gala.

Diana Ross attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Whoopi Goldberg arrives at the 2025 Met Gala.

Janelle Monáe attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Megan Thee Stallion attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Sabrina Carpenter attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Colman Domingo attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York.

Lupita Nyong'o attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Jeff Goldblum attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour arrives at the 2025 Met Gala.

Jennie attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

Bad Bunny attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

Bobby Digi Olisa, fashion detail, attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.

Audra McDonald attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York. (

British car driver Lewis Hamilton arrives for the 2025 Met Gala.

Dancers perform during the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Pharrell Williams attends the 2025 Met Gala.

Ego Nwodim, fashion detail, at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York.

Teyana Taylor attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York.

Corrected: May 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM PDT

A caption in a previous version of this story misidentified Colin Kaepernick as the person whose red-and-black patterned suit is pictured in detail. The photo is of Swizz Beatz's suit.

2025 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love

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