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Met Gala Attendees Wore Stylish Menswear Outfits with Pinstripes and Hats

    In pinstripes and hats, with canes and twists on suiting, Met Gala crowd largely did menswear proud
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    NEW YORK – The Met Gala attendees showcased a variety of styles from pinstripes to hats to elegant gowns. The Black dandy menswear theme was well represented at the prestigious fashion event, with many guests displaying expert tailoring in their outfits.

    According to Holly Alford, an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, those who researched and drew inspiration from history managed to give a modern twist to their looks, resulting in a commendable display of style.

    One standout ensemble was Colman Domingo’s tribute to fashion icon André Leon Talley, a significant figure in the fashion industry as a Black editor. Several attendees paid homage to Talley, including Anne Hathaway who chose a Carolina Herrera dress in his honor, recognizing his influence even after his passing in 2022.

    “We wanted André Leon Talley to look down from heaven and scream ‘GLAMOUR,’” Hathaway said on the Vogue livestream Monday night.

    Inventive glamour energy of the night

    A glamourous night it was, and an inventive one at that amid a broad White House siege on DEI programs and protections that serve immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and myriad others. What does that have to do with fashion and the theme this year? Everything, in terms of Black power, ownership, heritage and, most importantly, freedom.

    What, exactly, was the suggested dress code? It was “Tailored for You,” inspired by Black dandyism through time, the subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring show at its Costume Institute.

    On the blue carpet, a bit soggy from drenching rain, guests played with the fundamentals of fashion to make their looks their own with the help of designers and stylists. And many honored their heritages in special touches like the cowrie shells on the cuffs of Lewis Hamilton’s Wales Bonner jacket.

    The shells pay homage to Black diasporic culture, to spirituality, to memory, said Rikki Byrd, assistant professor of Visual Culture Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Black Fashion Archive.

    Tessa Thompson honored Talley with a fan adorned with his image.

    “It’s representative of a church fan and Andre Leon Talley often talked about his first introduction to fashion was through his church,” Byrd said.

    Teyana Taylor was a standout for Shantrelle P. Lewis, author of “Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style.” With her cane, in her red velvet cape, “she understood the assignment,” Lewis said. Taylor’s cape was emblazoned with her nickname in honor of her home turf: “Harlem Rose.” And she, like Swizz Beatz, donned a durag.

    Some underwhelmed by how guests did

    Lewis, who has been seminal in understanding dandyism, said the attire on the carpet was generally underwhelming.

    “The lack of color, the lack of African print, even the absence of African designers. I said, ‘Where is the Black dandyism,’” she said. “No sartorial risks were taken.”

    Big risks? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Brandon Tan, fashion director for Cosmopolitan, was satisfied.

    “A classic silhouette can be completely reimagined by something as simple as the color and fabrication of the textile, as seen on Henry Golding,” he said. “Inversely, a very classic grey wool can be totally remixed by the cut and silhouette like Walton Goggins’ kilt look by Thom Browne.”

    Who missed the boat altogether?

    A few simply showed up in comparatively routine black tuxedoes (hello James Corden) and questionable spins on the theme (Sorry, Halle Berry, but that was a lot of skin in the crotch area).

    Coattails of varying lengths were a huge trend amid the sea of hats and head pieces anticipated ahead of the gala that brought together A-listers from the worlds of sports, entertainment, music, art, literature, politics and more to raise money for the Costume Institute.

    Black and white looks carried the night, with enough pops of color to keep it interesting.

    Colman Domingo and his many fans

    Kevin Huynh, InStyle’s fashion director, also praised Domingo, who wore a huge Talley-esque collared blue cape first, then ditched the cape to reveal a pearled window pain jacket he wore with dot accessories.

    “As the undisputed king of the red carpet, his regal look was beyond appropriate for the night’s theme,” Huynh said. “He fully embodied the spirit of dandyism in not one but two statement-making looks from Valentino, and he aced it in terms of being unapologetically bold and flawlessly fanciful.”

    That “fearlessness and individuality,” he said, is what the night was all about.

    “After a marathon awards season run, his Met Gala red carpet reveal was well worth the wait. From the moment he stepped out of The Carlyle draped in a jewel-toned Valentino cape, it was clear that more was coming,” said Claire Stern Milch, Elle’s digital director.

    “And when he finally arrived on the steps, his custom three-piece zoot suit, also designed by Alessandro Michele, was a playful and sophisticated nod to the theme,” she added.

    Milch called Domingo’s oversized polka dot flower on one lapel undoubtedly the highlight. The look, she said, was the “perfect marriage of classic tailoring and avant-garde flair.”

    Nikki Ogunnaike, editor in chief of Marie Claire, noted that suiting of all kinds wasn’t a huge surprise, considering the style guidance from Vogue’s Anna Wintour, who puts the gala together each year.

    “My favorites included Ayo Edebiri in Ferragamo, Tracee Ellis Ross in Marc Jacobs, Zendaya and Lisa in Louis Vuitton, Coleman Domingo in Valentino and Mindy Kaling in Harbison, all of whom interpreted dandyism and suiting in their own unique way,” she said.

    Athletes turned out at 2025 Met Gala

    Athletes, meanwhile, also took the spotlight. Tailoring for them is a special craft that Tom Marchitelli, custom menswear designer and stylist, takes into consideration with all the suits he creates for NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players.

    “These guys have these superhero builds, as I like to say, and they can’t walk into any store on Fifth Ave, in Rodeo, anywhere and just pick out a suit off the rack to fit them,” he said.

    Marchitelli said he appreciated the clean form-fitting looks on Philadelphia Eagles players Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley.

    “To have this many athletes showcased, I think that says a lot about how important sport is to culture, pop culture in America, how influential the athletes are,” he said.

    Black designers represented

    The night’s vibe was inspired by the exhibit called “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” It’s the first Costume Institute show to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years devoted to menswear.

    Big-time Black designers and smaller brands of creatives of color were represented on the carpet. They included Sergio Hudson, LaQuan Smith and Ozwald Boateng, a former wunderkind of Savile Row.

    Others who were not so much

    So who are some others who blew it, or didn’t even try to spin the theme?

    Blackpink’s Lisa (Manobal) might have walked the line in her look by Vuitton, a gala sponsor. She went pantless with little faces on black undies to go with her matching jacket and LV logo sheer stockings.

    Some on social media thought the faces were Rosa Parks. They weren’t, a representative told The Cut, explaining they were “portraits of figures who have been a part of the artist’s life.”

    OK. So it goes. Undie portraits might not be a good idea in general.

    As for Corden, The Cut posted a video of him in his mere mortal look and viewers threw some barbs, including one who called him “James Boredon” giving “a total snooze fest per usual.”

    Ouch, James.

    ___

    For more coverage of the 2025 Met Gala, visit https://apnews.com/hub/met-gala.

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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