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Met Gala Fashion Police: Who’s the Dandiest?
Zendaya arrives at the 2025 Met Gala on May 5, 2025, in New York City. (Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images)
With few exceptions, the women looked like they were going to a business meeting in 1985. The men, meanwhile, went a little too hard on accessories.
By Suzy Weiss and Elliot Ackerman
05.06.25 — Culture and Ideas
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NEW YORK CITY—On Monday, celebrities braved a bitter drizzle and high humidity to show face at the annual Met Gala, supposedly a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, but really: It’s fashion’s prom night. The event is chaired each year by Anna Wintour—this year her co-chairs were the actor Colman Domingo, British race car driver Lewis Hamilton, and musicians A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams—and it gives an opportunity for the rabble to look at and rate the elaborate outfits worn by the sparklier set.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman is a New York Times best-selling author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels 2034, Waiting for Eden, and Dark at the Crossing, as well as the memoirs The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan and Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, and a veteran of the Marine Corps and CIA special operations, having served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C.
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