Reportage / New York

Met Gala 2025: several readings of tailoring

An archival selection followed distinct responses to Superfine: Tailoring Black Style rather than treating the evening as one uniform silhouette.

WAYFARER Edition
May 12, 2025New York
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FROM THE WAYFARER BRAZIL ARCHIVE / English adaptation. Date shown is the original publication date.

Image from the WAYFARER Brazil archive.

Tailoring at the Met Gala 2025 did not produce one kind of outfit. The theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, and the dress code, Tailored for You, allowed different approaches to personal construction and formal dress.

WAYFARER’s May 2025 account selected looks from the event on 5 May. This adaptation records that historical selection rather than presenting a new ranking of the guests.

Different authors, different forms

Lewis Hamilton wore a custom creation by Grace Wales Bonner. A$AP Rocky appeared in AWGE, while Colman Domingo’s Valentino look used a more theatrical scale.

Rihanna wore Marc Jacobs. The archive connected the appearance with a personal announcement, but the clothing can also be read on its own terms as another response to the evening’s theme.

Kim Kardashian’s Chrome Hearts outfit used a structured black, western-inflected register. Zoë Saldaña appeared in Thom Browne, and Jodie Turner-Smith in Burberry. Each brought a different designer’s language into the same event.

The useful contrast is not simply between restraint and spectacle. Tailoring can define the body’s outline, disturb it or introduce a historical reference through proportion and detail.

The source’s broad claims about flawless styling and exclusive after-parties are not needed to explain the selection. The clothes already show why a shared brief can produce several distinct visual answers.

Adapted from the WAYFARER Brazil archive, first published 2025-05-12. English adaptation: 6 October 2026. This is an archival account, not a report of a new visit. Exhibitions, collections and menu details are described in their original context, not as current availability.