2025: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”
The most recent Met Gala served as a profound homage to the Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. This illustrious event was curated under the stewardship of chief curator Andrew Bolton, with esteemed guest curator Monica Miller—professor and chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College and Columbia University, and author of the acclaimed 2009 volume Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Bolton eloquently identified the passing of the legendary Black dandy and venerable Vogue editor André Leon Talley in 2022 as “the catalyst for the show,” an assertion echoed by several attendees who paid homage to Talley through sartorial choices that celebrated the nuances of suiting and tailoring. This thematic focus was particularly poignant, given that the exhibition marked the first dedicated exploration of menswear since 2003.
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boundless opportunities and endless potential
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Ruth E. Carter
Hilfiger
Jacquemus
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Oswald Boateng
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Tom Ford
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Marc Jacobs
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