The 2025 Met Gala is just on the horizon, though this year’s star-studded red carpet is set to be different.
It’s the biggest evening for fashion lovers, but the charity event and fundraiser for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, has welcomed a new list of A-listers to transform the coveted event.
The theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” was announced in October 2024.
Here’s who you can expect to see strutting their stuff on the most desired red carpet of the year.
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2025’s Met Gala will celebrate the innovation, creativity, and cultural impact of Black designers, stylists, and trailblazers in fashion history.
The co-hosts and host committee
The invite-only guest list that is annually curated by Anna Wintour includes a host of co-chairs and an honourary chair that is lusted over by celebrities.
Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams will join Vogue’s Editor-in-chief as co-chairs, with LeBron James serving as an honorary chair.
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According to the fashion publication, this year’s event will also have a host committee made up of Outkast’s André 3000, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, painter Jordan Casteel, fashion designer Dapper Dan and rapper Doechii.
Actress Ayo Edebiri, former editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful, and playwrights Jeremy O. Harris and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have been confirmed as hosting committee members.
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All the stars spotted at Coachella 2025
It will also include artists Kara Walker and Rashid Johnson, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, and singers Audra McDonald, Janelle Monáe, Tyla, Usher and Jeremy Pope.
Sporting professionals Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens, Angel Reese and Sha’Carri Richardson are also on the guest list.
Celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi will also create the menu for the gala.
Style power players to watch
Met Gala watchers can expect to see fashion visionaries like Telfar Clemens, Kerby Jean-Raymond, Christopher John Rogers, and Aurora James at the heart of this year’s guests. These luminaries may not hit the red carpet, but their designs are sure to.
While the rest of the guest list remains tightly closed to the Met’s chest, we can predict seeing some of the beloved long-time attendees who frequent the event religiously.
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Zendaya will undoubtedly saunter through the most-photographed fashion event as she always does in an awe-inspiring creation.
Jennifer Lopez is no stranger to strutting in spell-binding ensembles, and the Met is no exception, with the actress regularly attending.
Despite not attending in previous years, Rihanna will be eagerly anticipated by fans who can’t get enough of her incredibly intricate looks.
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The queen of the event, Blake Lively, may choose to skip the red carpet amid her ongoing legal woes, though she will remain a fixture of the Met Gala.
Another staple star who delivers iconic ensembles year after year is Jared Leto. However, he also gave the event a miss last year.
Taylor Swift – a close friend of Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds – was also a no-show in 2024, but fans hope to see her return this year with Travis Kelce by her side.
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The Met wouldn’t be the same without the inclusion of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, who will likely step out again this year.
Lupita Nyong’o is almost guaranteed to deliver interpretations of the theme that onlookers will marvel over.
Finally, fashion lovers will keep their eyes peeled for Sarah Jessica Parker, who never fails to deliver.
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Who decides on the Met Gala guest list and seating plan?
As the Met Gala’s party planners rush to finalise the guest list and infamous seating chart, Eaddy Kiernan, the woman tasked with organising the event, revealed how it’s done.
“We start with a seating document when the names come together in December,” she told Vogue.
“The actual seating chart doesn’t come together until about a month before the event, when we get a sense for the layout of the room, and the flow of the evening.”
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The event aims for its guests to enjoy themselves while making new connections.
“We really try to think very carefully about who’s sitting next to each other,” Kiernan said.
“Our ideal pairing would maybe be two people who we think will just get on like a house on fire but who may not even realise that they have a lot in common.
“So with each person, we really do take time to think, ‘What will they talk about?'”
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“We try and think a lot about sight lines and where people have sat in the past. And we try to make sure someone isn’t staring into the eyes of a former flame,” Kiernan explained.
When is the Met Gala for 2025?
The Met Gala will be held on May 5 (Tuesday, May 6, in Australia) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is held each year on the first Monday of May.
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