Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Met Gala: Date, Theme & Hosts

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_{The 2024 Met Gala, hosted to commemorate a Costume Institute exhibition at New York's The Metropolitan Museum of Art titled "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," was an affair for the ages. But all eyes are at the next year's fête which will be no less compelling.}

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_{Here’s everything you need to know about 2025's first Monday in May:}

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When does the Met Gala 2025 occur?

_{The Met Gala will take place on Monday, May 5 in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host The 2025 Met Gala.}

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What is the theme for the Met Gala 2025?

_{The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition on Wednesday - "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Influenced by Monica L. Miller's Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, published in 2009; the exhibit will consist of clothing, paintings, photographs, and more-all having to do with the indelible style of Black men in the context of dandyism, from the 18th century to today.}

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Who is hosting the Met Gala 2025?

_{Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the 2025 Met Gala, along with honorary chair LeBron James.}

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What is the dress code?

_{Stay tuned! The 2025 dress code will be announced early next year.}

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What is the Met Gala?

_{The Met Gala is a fund-raising event for the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally, it was held on the first Monday in May in connection with the opening of the department's annual fashion exhibition. It grosses eight-figure sums each year.}

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What occurs at the Met Gala?

_{That's largely kept under wraps—visitors have to adhere to the no-phone (and hence no social media) rule once they're inside the museum—but the after-party includes dinner and a headliner or headliners, and guests have always been given an opportunity to view the exhibit.}

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Where is the Met Gala held?

_{The Met Gala takes place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on the first Monday in May every year-except for 2021, of course, which was postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Met Gala attendees tend to stay in nearby hotels where they all end up congregating in a few celebrity-friendly hotspots. One such hotspot for 2023 was the Mark Hotel.}

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Who gets invited to the Met Gala?

_{The guest list is not publicly revealed until the day before the show. Nevertheless, some of the biggest stars in the business attend each year-Beyoncé and Gigi Hadid, Madonna and Rihanna-while other attendees come out of fashion duty: think of Steven Meisel and Naomi Campbell, or William Fleiss and Grace Kelly, countess of Monaco.}

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Who goes to the Met Gala?

_{An event that, in general, draws 450 attendees and welcomes stars, young creatives, and paragons of the industry every year. Let's look back at some of the best looks from the years that have gone by at the MET. From Blake Lively,  Sarah Jessica Parker, Rihanna and more.}

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