Met Gala 2025: As it happened

Summary

It's the biggest night in fashion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, as stars serve their most iconic looks for the 2025 Met Gala
The theme for this year's event is "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the first since 2003 to focus exclusively on menswear
Vogue says the subject of the exhibition is the "black dandy" which "examines the importance of clothing and style to the formation of black identities in the Atlantic diaspora"
We've already seen Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour arrive, along with co-chairs for the night Coleman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton
Stars such as Zendaya, Doechii, Shah Ruhk Khan, and Bad Bunny have also made appearances
We have our eyes and ears on the carpet, so follow along for live coverage and analysis of the event

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Rihanna’s baby bump and suits galore - key looks from the 2025 Met Gala

Live Reporting

Edited by Caitlin Wilson, with fashion critic Scarlett Harris

Fashion's biggest stars come together for fashion's biggest nightpublished at 04:03 British Summer Time
Caitlin Wilson
Live editor
With Rihanna finally inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art after walking the blue carpet, all that's left for fashion fans the world over (besides beginning the painstaking process of ranking their best-dressed looks) is to imagine what goes on inside the exclusive Met Gala.
It's the industry's biggest night, paying homage to the Costume Institute's exhibit - this year called Superfine: Tailoring Black Style - while also raising money for future shows.
And while the stars party on, it's time for us here on this live page to turn into pumpkins and call it a night.
The editors on this page were Jake Lapham and me, with writing from Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Kayla Epstein and Nadine Yousif. We were also joined by fashion critic Scarlett Harris. Thanks for coming along with us.
While our live page is ending, you can keep up with our other Met Gala coverage below:
Tailoring black (and white) style, indeedpublished at 03:50 British Summer Time
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
The Superfine exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is subtitled Tailoring Black Style.
Attendees at tonight's Met Gala - which raises money for the Costume Institute at the museum - took that theme to heart, with a notably monotone vibe overall than we've seen in past years.
The devil was certainly in the details, though, as jewels added depth and intrigue to the blue carpet's mostly black-and-white palette.
Among the most notable features:
- Pharrell Williams' pearly pinstripes (pearlstripes?)
- Diana Ross' giant train of feathers
- Whoopi Goldberg's top hat and fascinator, from Thom Browne
- Academy Award winner Zoe Saldana's dozens of covered buttons
- Severance's Tramell Tillman's all-black fabric lily brooch
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Tramell Tillman
Some standout looks, if only because they broke with the black-and-white suiting mould of the night:
- Simone Biles in blue Harbison Studio, a nod to the impact of indigo in black culture
- Teyana Taylor in burgundy Marc Jacobs and styled by Ruth E. Carter
- Gigi Hadid in Miu Miu referencing Josephine Baker and 1940s Black fashion designer Zelda Wynn Valdes
- Lupita Nyong’o giving Sunday best in Chanel
- Tracee Ellis Ross’ feminine raspberry take on the zoot suit by Marc Jacobs with a Stephen Jones hat. "I feel naturally like a dandy", Ellis Ross told Lala Anthony on the carpet
- Joey King stunned in an olive green mirror suit by Miu Miu
- Zendaya's understated cream Louis Vuitton, accessorised perfectly with her effortless cool
- A first Courreges look from Emma Chamberlain, who always understands the assignment
- As does Doja Cat, who said she felt like a "gangsta" and a "madame" in Marc Jacobs pinstripes and leopard print
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Joey King
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Lupita Nyong'o
TikTok's bigget star at fashion's biggest nightpublished at 03:47 British Summer Time
With over 160 million followers, Senegalese-Italian influencer and comedian Khaby Lame is the most popular personality on TikTok. He walked the blue carpet tonight wearing a suit covered in dozens of pocket watches.
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The Rihanna wait is overpublished at 03:20 British Summer Time
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
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Soon-to-be mum of three Rihanna is the late big arrival on the blue carpet
Trust arguably the most stylish Met Gala attendee Rihanna to bring the ultimate accessory to the daffodil carpet this year: her third pregnancy with co-chair ASAP Rocky, with whom she shares sons RZA and Riot.
The singer of "Umbrella" - an accessory much needed on a rainy day like today's first Monday in May - debuted her first pregnancy with a Harlem photoshoot, dripping in Chanel, in 2022.
The following year she headlined the Super Bowl half-time show while pregnant with baby number two.
This time around, she is stunning in perhaps her most iconic Met Gala look yet: mum of three in Marc Jacobs.
And though our wait for Rihanna on the blue carpet is over, our wait for new music from the star carries on.
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How much does that piano weigh?published at 03:12 British Summer Time
Musician Andre 3000's spine doctor might not like this look, which involves a piano strapped to the Outkast member's back.
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All black (suit) everythingpublished at 03:09 British Summer Time
Black suit-inspired looks are seen on the blue carpet from Issa Rae, Charli XCX and Nicki Minaj.
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Filmmaker Issa Rae
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Singer Charli XCX
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Rapper Nicki Minaj in black and purple
Ayo Edebiri’s costume pays homage to Nigerian rootspublished at 03:01 British Summer Time
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu
Live reporter
Golden Globe winner Ayo Edebiri has said her outfit is a nod to her Nigerian father's Edo culture.
The white dress, designed by Ferragamo, is bejewelled with red beads traditionally made from corals and worn at special events such as weddings in the Edo culture.
They signify power, wealth and beauty.
She has paired the beads with a white collared shirt dress and black leather overcoat.
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Pinstripes on point - but everyone is wearing thempublished at 02:59 British Summer Time
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
The pinstripe has been synonymous with suiting since at least the inception of the black dandy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, through mid-century gangsters and zoot suiters to 1980s power dressing, but after tonight you'd be forgiven for feeling a bit of a pinstripe overload!
Pinstripes have shown up to varying degrees tonight on everyone from Questlove to Quinta Brunson to Patrick Schwartzenegger.
Most attendees' outfits - pinstripe or otherwise - were on point individually, but taken as a whole, the overall looks and the tiny narrow lines tend to blur into one another to become a little one-note.
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More blue carpet lookspublished at 02:51 British Summer Time
Even as the official red (blue) carpet portion of tonight's Met Gala has ended, we are still bringing you some of the most eye-catching looks of the night.
Check out Lauryn Hill, Ncuti Gatwa and LaKeith Stanfield below:
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'I feel like I am showing you a new way to think about clothing'published at 02:45 British Summer Time
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
When asked about her outfit by Vogue on the carpet, Janelle Monáe responded simply - "free" - followed by an expletive.
“And when I’m in my suit, that is exactly how I feel," she says.
She's wearing a Thom Brown suit, whom she’s attended the Met Gala with as a guest of for the last several years.
"I feel like I am showing you a new way to think about clothing and to think about values and to think about what you stand for, what you don’t stand for, and the kind of person you want to represent as you walk this earth.”
The look is styled by the Academy Award-winning costume designer for Wicked, Paul Tazewell.
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Law Roach gives up iconic locks for blond swooppublished at 02:44 British Summer Time
Celebrity stylist Law Roach - who has famously dressed Zendaya for years - shows up in a short white-blond hairstyle, a marked change-up from his usual long sleek black 'do.
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Madonna looks smoking on the red carpetpublished at 02:41 British Summer Time
Madonna accessorised her cream-colored tuxedo with a cigar, creating an interplay between soft feminine materials and a distinct masculine energy. It's a dynamic that the pop superstar has played with throughout her career.
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Madonna
Doja Cat rocks a creative jaguar printpublished at 02:41 British Summer Time
Doja Cat has painted the town in pinstripes in this creative suit-meets-leotard ensemble.
The look is delightfully 80s, and the kind of dramatic statement we've come to expect from the singer.
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Doja Cat
Kardashian-Jenner sisters go for darker lookspublished at 02:41 British Summer Time
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We've already shown you fashion model Kendall Jenner's look for tonight - now take a look at her sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, who have also gone for darker-coloured looks looks.
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Golding wears goldpublished at 02:40 British Summer Time
British actor Henry Golding leans into his name, donning a gold checked three-piece suit.
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A$AP Rocky confirms Rihanna is pregnant with couple's third childpublished at 02:33 British Summer Time
One of tonight's Met Gala co-chairs A$AP Rocky has confirmed that he and Rihanna are expecting their third child together.
We have yet to see Rihanna on the blue carpet but earlier on, she was seen at a nearby hotel.
"It is time to just show the people what we were cooking up," A$AP Rocky told a reporter of the pregnancy. "I am glad everybody is happy for us because we're definitely happy."
Rihanna has used big events to reveal pregnancies before. She used her 2023 Super Bowl halftime show to reveal that she was pregnant with her second child.
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A$AP Rocky confirms Rihanna is pregnant at Met Gala
Cardi B dons green velvetpublished at 02:29 British Summer Time
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American rapper and fashion icon Cardi B has arrived in a colour and fabric we haven't seen much of tonight - green velvet - complete with a ruffled overcoat and suit-like cummerbund to stay on theme.
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From the racetrack to the Met Galapublished at 02:28 British Summer Time
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
Grace Wales Bonner of the eponymous British upstart line Wales Bonner has emerged as one of the Met Gala’s top designers, dressing FKA Twigs, co-chair Lewis Hamilton and exhibition catalogue photographer Tyler Mitchell in ivory suits, along with exhibition co-curator Monica L Miller.
Hamilton’s look, which took months to assemble, was inspired by jazz singer Cab Calloway and Barkley L Hendricks paintings and is accessorised with a Stephen Jones beret and a pearl, garnet and cowrie shell brooch, the latter of which holds significance in the African diaspora - important for tonight's theme which focuses on menswear as inspired by black men.
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What is it really like inside the secretive Met Gala?published at 02:26 British Summer Time
Brandon Drenon
Live reporter
With only the red carpet stragglers left, most of the attendees of tonight's Met Gala have now gone inside the museum to begin the main programme for the night.
Very few people, excluding the invitees, have been inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the gala – but I have.
I moved to New York City from Los Angeles in 2013, called to the city – like many others before me – in hopes of becoming a fashion model.
The modelling agency that represented me partnered with a catering company that hired models for its high-profile events, like the Met Gala.
I was part of a vast network of waiters, handing off bottles of booze and plates of food to one server, who would hand it to another server, who would gently put it on the table between chattering celebrities.
At the end of the night, one thing that struck me was that most of the food on the plates appeared untouched. The champagne bottles, however, were mostly empty.
Power couples take to the carpetpublished at 02:23 British Summer Time
Want to treat your signficant other to a night on the town? There's no better option than the Met Gala.
A parade of power couples have made their way up the Met Museum steps this evening.
Usher and his wife, Jennifer Goicoechea Raymond, looked dapper in their Old Hollywood-style tuxedos.
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Usher and Jennifer Goicoechea Raymond
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas also made an appearance. Nick didn't bother with a headpiece, but Priyanka's brim was wide enough to cover both of them. A handy accessory on a night of relentless rain.
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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra
Meanwhile, married musicians Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz took couples costumes to the next level, wearing pinstriped suits that played off each other.
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz