Met Gala 2025: The best, worst and wackiest looks on the red carpet

It’s the first Monday in May which can mean only one thing: fashion’s one per cent are checked into The Mark Hotel, have spent hours in glam, and are now making their way up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandiose steps for the Met Gala 2025 — and they are all wearing the most magnificent (and likely wackiest) outfits they will all year.

As ever, the epic charity fundraiser (which this year has raised a record-breaking $31 million, beating 2024’s total of $26 million) is tied to the opening of The Costume Institute’s headline fashion exhibition. For 2025 that is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, based on Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Invitations arrived with the dress code “Tailored for You”, promising a night of impeccable suits, and a spotlight on Black designers.

Guests will climb up steps surrounded by daffodils, on deep blue carpet covered in a daffodil print — all creatively directed by artist Cy Gavin.

First to hit the deep blue carpeted steps, penned in by daffodils — the creative vision of artist Cy Gavin — are this year’s co-chairs. Joining Dame Anna Wintour, who hosts the event annually, are Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and A$AP Rocky, while basketball player Lebron James is an “honorary” co-chair.

Wintour opted for an ivory dress with sapphire blue silk overcoat by Louis Vuitton, while Colman Domingo was a vision in a glittering Valentino cape and Boucheron jewellery. Leaning into the dandy theme, Domingo later removed his cape to reveal a pearl embellished, checked blazer adorned with a polka-dot boutonnière and neckerchief — also by Valentino.

Hamilton opted for a custom Wales Bonner ivory cropped jacket suit, while Pharrell Williams wore a Louis Vuitton outfit of his own design.

Leading the ladies was Sydney Sweeney, who opted for a coal-black, beaded Miu Miu gown, and Gigi Hadid, who wore a halter neck gold lamé gown by the same label.

Diana Ross halted the carpet when she arrived in all white — a feathered showstopper with an acres-long train complete with wide-brimmed hat. Inside her train, the names of her children and grandchildren are embroidered.“My son persuaded me — he said Mum, you gotta go,” Ross told reporters on the carpet. “It is a very special moment.”