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.
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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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