Guests for the 2025 Met Gala will adhere to this year's dress code, "Tailored for You," inspired by the spring 2025 exhibition at the Costume Institute, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Each year,

This year’s Met Gala theme is quietly radical because it invites the industry to celebrate the Black aesthetic but also acknowledge its history.

“Superfine” is inspired by Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, which Bolton came across following the passing of André Leon Talley in 2022, an event that he also credits as being “the catalyst for the show.”