Everything you need to know ahead of Met Gala 2025

NEW YORK, NY -- It's the archetypal Monday successful May and that means it's Met Gala Monday!

The Met Gala is simply a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Last year's lawsuit raised much than $26 million. The gala is besides usually the kickoff for the Costume Institute's outpouring exhibition. The lawsuit is helmed by Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and is attended by manner designers and brands, celebrities, influencers and more.

Here's what you request to cognize up of fashion's biggest night.

WHAT IS THIS YEAR'S THEME?

This year's accumulation taxable is "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Vogue described it arsenic "examining the value of covering and benignant to the enactment of Black identities successful the Atlantic diaspora" with the Black dandy arsenic its subject.

WHO ARE THIS YEAR'S HOSTS?

Wintour, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams volition co-chair. And LeBron James was named honorary chair.

WHAT IS THE DRESS CODE?

It was announced successful February that the formal codification is "Tailored for You," which Vogue says is simply a motion to the exhibition's absorption connected menswear.

Good Morning America's Michael Strahan interviewed Wintour up of the large event. She revealed Domingo texted her a photograph of his look and was floored by her reaction.

"It was his idea. It was a clever idea," Wintour said.

On The Red Carpet's manner expert Roshumba Williams spoke to ABC News Live astir what she hopes we'll spot radical wearing.

"Capes and coats and exquisitely tailored menswear," WIlliams said. "Also, structured silhouettes and tons of flowing silhouettes arsenic well."

WHAT CELEBRITIES ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND?

Among the celebrities connected the big committee are André 3000, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Usher, and Kara Walker.

Rihanna is co-host A$AP Rocky's partner. She has made large splashes astatine the Met Gala successful years past and star-watchers are hoping she volition locomotion those iconic stairs erstwhile again.

Other erstwhile guests see Sarah Jessica Parker, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Jared Leto, Elle Fanning, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Lil Nas X, Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Gigi Hadid and members of the Kardashian-Jenner family.

Keep an oculus connected ontheredcarpet.com for each the champion looks, biggest entrances and reddish carpet moments.