On Could 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute will open “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type,” a landmark exhibition tracing over 300 years of Black vogue by means of the lens of dandyism. Co-curated by Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton, the present delves into how Black people have harnessed model as a type of resistance, identification, and cultural expression.
However first, on Monday, the Met held its annual profit, extra generally referred to as the Met Gala, to have a good time the exhibition and lift cash for the establishment.
This 12 months’s occasion known as for attendees to interpret, reimagine, or in any other case embody the theme of “Black dandyism.” Whereas there was the same old parade of A-list celebrities, from Nicole Kidman and Meghan Thee Stallion to Spike Lee, this 12 months additionally noticed robust attendance from blue-chip modern artists like Rashid Johnson and Jordan Casteel—who have been on the Gala’s star-studded host committee. Amy Sherald and Arthur Jafa have been additionally in attendance, amongst others.
After final 12 months’s clichéd floral theme, this 12 months’s Gala was a breath of recent air. Under, are a number of unmissable appears from this 12 months’s Met Gala purple carpet.
