Must-see red carpet looks from the Met Gala

Truc Nguyen · CBC Life

· Posted: May 05, 2025 6:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The Met Gala has, implicit the years, go 1 of the splashiest nights successful manner — drafting an eclectic and ever-evolving roster of A-list celebrities and fashion manufacture powerfulness players. Attendees often go each retired connected the reddish carpet, donning daring, one-of-a-kind ensembles successful enactment with the taxable and enactment formal codification to varying degrees of success. 

This year's formal codification is Tailored for You, a motion to the menswear-focused outpouring accumulation astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, for which the gala is simply a fundraiser. 

Featuring covering and accessories, paintings, photographs and more, the accumulation Superfine: Tailoring Black Style explores the aesthetic and past of Black dandyism from the 18th period to today, tracing however it emerged from African and European benignant traditions during the transatlantic enslaved commercialized and showing however idiosyncratic benignant tin relation arsenic "a mode of favoritism and resistance" successful a satellite impacted by race, sex and class.

The accumulation is guest-curated by Columbia University prof Monica L. Miller and takes inspiration from her book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

Given this year's taxable and formal code, it's nary astonishment that menswear-inspired looks and customized suiting filled the reddish carpet, with co-chairs Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and Pharrell Williams each making their mark. Check backmost for much standout looks arsenic the nighttime unfolds.

Colman Domingo

A gala co-chair this year, Domingo wore a pleated bluish cape, customized made by Valentino. The royal look was styled by Wayman + Micah. 

Christian Latchman 

Latchman — who appears connected the screen of the exhibition's catalogue — was dashing successful a achromatic suit with a bid and an oversized boutonniere. 

Teyana Taylor

The singer-songwriter and histrion made a bold entranceway successful a burgundy look created successful collaboration with Academy Award-winning costume decorator Ruth E. Carter. 

Lewis Hamilton

The Formula One Star and gala co-chair looked crisp successful a cream-coloured suit by British decorator Wales Bonner with shoes by Manolo Blahnik and jewelry by Briony Raymond.