2025 Met Gala stars shine, showcasing Black style for this year's theme

La La Anthonyactor

Virgil was more than a designer—he was a visionary, he was my friend, and someone who changed the entire game for so many of us,

Anthony said

La La Anthonyactor

The reality is God has celebrated what we have done since the beginning of time. . . We created style, whether it be in music, dance or the most important thing: love. We have to commit ourselves. Black men all over the world, Africa, everywhere, pull yourselves (together) and bring the world together, because that's what's needed most of all in life today--love, not confusion, not hate."

To Lala Anthony on Vogue's livestream of the red carpet event, Wonder said

This is my only chance to celebrate before I go back on the road,

the singer said

Keke Palmerstar

Pretty much just wanted to inhabit the tailoring but also the history of Black culture, fashion as a tool to enter spaces that often were not allowed,

Palmer told Vogue

Rihanna’s outfit tonight is ... I don’t know, whatever, just don’t cover her baby hump, you dig?”

he said in an interview on the carpet

Historical manifestations of dandyism range from absolute precision in dress and tailoring to flamboyance and fabulousness in dress and style,

Miller wrote in the exhibit catalog

She's in a two-button, double-breasted jacket fashioned into a tailcoat-like train in satin fabric for luster, plus crimson lining for a pop of colour,

Dingle said

This is the most important moment of my career right now,

the 80-year-old designer told Vogue

Everything that I'm trying to say today is about how do we bring the culture up, and how do we go back and get what we need to bring it back here

he said

Obviously, this exhibition was planned many years ago, and we didn't know what would be happening in the political arena, but it's taken on a new sense of importance and purpose,

Wintour told AFP

Pharrell Williamsmusic producer

As an artist who was literally born and raised in the shadow of where the African diaspora expanded into the country that would become America, celebrating an exhibit centered on Black dandyism and the African diaspora is really, for me, a full circle moment,

said Williams, who is from Virginia

Nick Jonashusband

The theme for us is about collaborating with excellent people who have a real sense, a real 360 view of this theme and what it means,

Nick Jonas, who worked with designer Bianca Sanders, said

She is, I mean, this is the ultimate female dandy,

Kors told Vogue, when describing the rapper and her look

To me, it's an expression of what fashion has been,

she said

Lewis Hamiltonf1 driver

After that, speaking with Anna [Wintour] and just starting to collaborate on what the Met could grow to and what it can one day be,

Hamilton explained

Lewis Hamiltonf1 driver

As I got older, I realized, I found my sense of self, got confidence from wearing fashion and how you can express yourself through what you're wearing. And after that, I went on this journey. Fashion's really helped me become the person I am today."

Hamilton's relationship with fashion evolved into something empowering

Lewis Hamiltonf1 driver

It's really inspired by Harlem Renaissance, and particularly Cab Calloway. And the white and white-the white and white portraits by Barkley Hendricks,

Hamilton continued

I’m sure it’s just a normal museum bathroom, ... but I’m excited to find out."

she joked

Doechiirapper

I felt inspired by the theme, as a student of hip hop,

Doechii told Vogue

She took her training from her tailoring background and brought that to female form,

Hadid told Vogue on the carpet