The Met Museum lately introduced their 2025 theme: “Superfine, Tailoring Black Model,” drawing inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 ebook, “Slaves to Trend: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Id.”
In line with Vogue, “The exhibit will discover the indelible type of Black males within the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century by means of current 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, alongside honorary chair LeBron James.
At a press convention concerning the exhibit, Pharrell mentioned, “We’re the survivors of what’s maybe essentially the most intense hardships, trials, and tribulations to ever bedevil a gaggle of human beings. Not solely did we survive, we carried music, tradition, the sweetness and the common language throughout an ocean and a quadruple century. That’s what this 12 months’s Met Gala will have fun. Us. We’re a museum.”
Hopefully the exhibit may even have fun probably the most iconic black dandies of the twenty first century: Andre Leon Talley.
We additionally hope that Dapper Dan can be given his flowers for his contributions to the tradition and black Dandyism.
And if the exhibit doesn’t, company undoubtedly will.
At face worth, that is thrilling!
We all know that black type is electrical, although typically ignored and imitated within the trend trade. We will solely hope that subsequent 12 months’s gala can be a real celebration of black type and black designers–a change we’ve been calling for for years. And you recognize Trend Bomb Every day must be within the constructing.
What do you assume?