The MET Gala is tonight, and it's already historic. Here's why.
It's Been a Minute
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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Summary
Celebrities will walk the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art hoping their looks live up to the annual theme of the gala. This year's theme is a special one. It's called "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," and it's the very first Black fashion tradition to be selected for the theme of the Costume Institute's fundraiser.
Brittany and her guests, culture writer Shelton Boyd-Griffith and editor-in-chief of Black Fashion Fair Antoine Gregory, discuss how celebrities can be sure to be on theme and how the theme is rooted in the very first fashion statements made by enslaved people.
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| 0:47.5 | Are you ready to judge the rich and famous? |
| 0:54.8 | Because tonight, we all get to be fashion critics as celebrities and designers show out at the |
| 1:01.1 | 2025 MacGala. |
| 1:02.7 | And this year, I'm here to give you a guidebook for how to judge the best and worst looks |
| 1:07.9 | of the night. |
| 1:08.9 | So every year of the MacGala has a theme. |
| 1:12.0 | And every year, some people get it and some people of the night. So every year of the MacGala has a theme, and every year some people get it, and some people just don't. This year's theme is a special one, and a bit complicated. |
| 1:19.5 | It's called Super Fine, tailoring black style, and it's a celebration of the black dandy. You might |
| 1:26.5 | already know what a black dandy is, but if you don't, here's a picture. |
| 1:30.6 | It's rooted in, like, traditional tutorial, like, suiting, but then it's also juxtaposed with, like, |
| 1:36.0 | someone who's more, like, peacocky and, like, more exuberant. |
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