Met Gala 2025: Kidd Ketamines Hot Take
Curated by: Kidd Ketamine
It’s the first Monday in May, which means the Met Gala is back to remind us that fashion is culture, celebrity is currency, and a museum gala can cost more than a luxury car. Happy Met Monday, everyone. Personally, I’m still spiritually lodged in those grainy Ariana clips from last year’s event — what a way to soft-launch divinity.
Can’t swing $75K for a ticket? No worries — Vogue will let you watch from home like the rest of us plebs. Digital access to high fashion and low context, free of charge.
This year’s exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, takes its cues from Monica L. Miller’s Slaves to Fashion and centers Black dandyism — an aesthetic and political lineage rooted in resistance, self-fashioning, and flair. It’s smart, overdue, and, let’s be honest, ripe for mishandling by brands and stylists who just learned the word “diaspora” last week.
The theme, “Tailed for You,” puts Black fashion at the center of the conversation — a rare move that, for once, feels less performative and more pointed. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Black dandyism has always been the blueprint, and tonight will reveal who studied the syllabus and who skimmed the Wikipedia page.
As for the co-chairs: Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell, LeBron James (in “honorary” mode), and, of course, Anna Wintour, who has chaired this event longer than most guests have been alive. Tonight’s confirmed attendees include Zendaya, Bad Bunny, Lupita Nyong’o — a stacked deck of Met veterans and first-timers.
And listen, I have no formal training in fashion, no PR access, and certainly no invite — which obviously makes me exactly the right person to break down who nailed the assignment and who showed up looking like a thesis project gone rogue.
Let’s get into it.
Cynthia Erivo
HOT TAKE: She didn’t understand the theme because she thought it was too “ghetto.”
Andra Day
A few years late on the color choice, but happy to see it!
Fun Fact: Jerome Lamaar, the designer, cut the train in the shape of tobacco leaves, illustrating the link between dandyism and the legacy of slavery.
Gayle King
I don’t know if she thought her trip to space also teleported her to a location where her hair didn’t violently oppose the color of her dress, but here in this world it does.
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita killed with this interpretation, but it's giving old.
Alton Mason
I’d love to know what you’re thinking…
Spike Lee
Spike Lee, out here looking like the guy on the LRR hassling me about not buying a ticket. GET OUT.
Jennie Kim
Miss Kim aka the Human Chanel had to slide thru at let y'all know this was NEVAAAA a game
Simone Biles
Come on Ocean Spray!
Venus Williams
OKAY! This is some dandy level shit! She came in a tennis set, green the color of the money. GET OUT.
Zendaya
Zendaya came as Diahann Carroll from the infamous episode of Dynasty. She agrees, the champagne is burnt.
Rev. Al Sharpton
I just think he’s a joke.
Cardi B
Cardi B really is THAT girl. This is hitting harder than those cheating allegations she couldn’t hear.
Law Roach
Law Roach and his pet hamster.
Ncuti Gatwa
Ncuti Gatwa can do no wrong.
Burna Boy
Burna Boy looks incredible.
Marc Metrick and Olivier Rousteing
Olivier arrived with the best accessory of the evening—a sewing machine.
Willy Chavarria and Maluma
Listen, If the papi’s come to the cookout, they better be dressed like Willy Chavarria and Maluma.
Tessa Thompson
Tessa Thompson, queen of the bob, looked to her ultimate bob inspiration per usual and showed up as Willy Wonka.
Andre 3000
Culturally, I get it.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin, one of the best dressed men in attendance on theme.
Stella McCarteney and Mary J. Blige
I have this theory that every year, Anna invites someone about to be taken down by federal investigation. I’m taking bets on if MJB is next. HMU.
Shaboozey
I am honestly so sick of Shaboozey taking up space from FBA and doing it poorly— with autotune.
Doja Cat
Some might say Doja Cat looks like a lady of the STREETS because she’s dressed like this. I simply say she’s an aquarius who loves a shoulder pad. I suppose it works (minus whatever up top)..