Met Gala dress code, celebrity guests and more announced

The dress code for the Met Gala 2025 has just been announced, along with the first batch of celebrity guests.

The upcoming show at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which takes place on 5 May - will be titled, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style", and will explore dandyism in Black style and fashion, as inspired by Monica L. Miller's book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

The dress code this year will be "Tailored for You" and perfectly suits the exhibition!

While the dress code is sometimes taken as a mere suggestion by some celebrity guests, we're dying to see the many inspired interpretations on the classic suit - especially when it comes to menswear, which has blossomed in recent years and is become as exciting as an extravagant gown.

Dandies, which Milller described as "men who paid distinct and sometimes excessive attention to dress", will be front and centre in the exhibition, so expect plenty of eye-catching menswear and menswear-inspired looks on the night.

Famously held on the first Monday in May each year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City, the Met Gala is an annual fundraiser that provides Institute with its main source of funding for exhibitions and events.

The dazzling event sees designers buy tables at the gala, with each one inviting celebrities or influencers to represent them and their designs on the notorious Met steps. Each guest is personally approved by American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, making an invite one of the most hotly coveted tickets in the fashion world.

The co-chairs this year will be Pharrell Williams - who is currently the Creative Director of menswear for Louis Vuitton - alongside actor Colman Domingo, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, musician A$AP Rocky and Anna Wintour, with basketball star Lebron James acting as honorary co-chair.

However, joining the co-chairs this year will be the newly announced "host committee" - what the organisers called a longstanding tradition which will draw on a bevy of famous faces across a host of industries, each of which will weigh in on the festivities.

The host committee reads like its own list of gala invitees: actor and honorary Irishwoman Ayo Edebiri; musicians Doechii, Usher, and Janelle Monáe; author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; athletes Simone Biles, Jonathan Owens and Sha-Carri Richardson; Regina King, Spike Lee and Olivier Rousteing being just some of the celebrities added to the prestigious team.