The Met Museum lately introduced their 2025 theme: “Superfine, Tailoring Black Taste,” drawing inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 ebook, “Slaves to Type: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identification.”
In line with Fashion, “The showcase will discover the indelible taste of Black males within the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century via provide day.” The 2025 #MetGala chairs are all #blackmen : Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the 2025 Gala, along honorary chair LeBron James.
At a press convention in regards to the showcase, Pharrell mentioned, “We’re the survivors of what’s possibly essentially the most intense hardships, trials, and tribulations to ever bedevil a gaggle of human beings. Now not simplest did we live to tell the tale, we carried tune, tradition, the sweetness and the common language throughout an ocean and a quadruple century. That’s what this yr’s Met Gala will rejoice. Us. We’re a museum.”
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With a bit of luck the showcase may also rejoice probably the most iconic black dandies of the twenty first century: Andre Leon Talley.
We additionally hope that Dapper Dan can be given his vegetation for his contributions to the tradition and black Dandyism.
And if the showcase does now not, visitors for sure will.
At face worth, that is thrilling!
We all know that black taste is electrical, regardless that continuously lost sight of and imitated within the style trade. We will simplest hope that subsequent yr’s gala can be a real birthday celebration of black taste and black designers–a transformation we’ve been calling for for years. And Type Bomb Day-to-day needs to be within the construction.
What do you suppose?
