Met Gala 2025 outfits: Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Kylie Jenner, Sydney Sweeney, Shakira, Nicole Kidman and more

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Met Gala 2025. Credit: The Nightly/Getty

There were reams of luxurious fabrics, millions and millions of dollars in high-end jewels and more than a few dramatic moments on the 2025 Met Gala red carpet. Or, more accurately, the blue carpet.

Pop star Rihanna unveiled she was pregnant with her third child in the lead-up to the event, and sent partner A$AP Rocky ahead of her to confirm the news before arriving fashionably late as one of the last famous faces.

Rihanna makes her blue carpet entrance. Credit: Getty/Getty Images

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The Barbadian superstar has a history of saving her pregnancy reveals for high-profile moments, having unveiled the pending birth of her second child at the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show.

New York’s Met Gala has been billed as fashion’s night of nights that attracts the zeitgeist-iest celebrities as part of an exclusive guest list curated by Vogue grande dame Anna Wintour. The event is a fundraising and promotional event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

Famous faces this year included Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Pamela Anderson, Jon Batister, Babyface, Bad Bunny, Angela Bassett, Ryan Coogler, Damson Idris, Quinta Brunson, Regina King, Halle Berry, Janelle Monae, the Kardashian-Jenner clan, The Bear co-stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, Diana Ross, Cole Escola, Anne Hathaway, Lauryn Hill, Colin Kaepernick, Mindy Kaling, Spike Lee and pop princesses Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx and Dua Lipa.

The White Lotus cast members Aimee Lou Wood and Patrick Schwarzenegger arrived together, a little while after Walton Goggins.

Australians on the red carpet included Nicole Kidman, Sarah Snook, Baz Lurhman and Catherine Martin, and eccentric packaging mogul Richard Pratt.

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For the first time in more than two decades, the Met Gala has cast a spotlight on menswear with its 2025 theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, which was also a celebration of black style, and the connection between fashion and power for a marginalised community.

The event’s co-chairs this year were Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton and A$AP Rocky, all sartorially minded black men. The guest list also included a far higher proportion of Black artists than in previous years.

Demi Moore. Credit: Getty/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue

Celebrities were briefed that their ensembles should channel “tailored for you” and draw on the Met’s costume exhibit, inspired by Monica L Miller’s book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of the Black Diasporic Identity.

Williams, who is also the men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton, said: “I see dandyism as a set of rules and standards that reflect a certain sophistication and well-travelled taste. For black people to hit that mark or exceed it, and be consistent with it, is a matter of pride.”

Wintour added of the theme, “I’ve been very, very inspired by seeing how much it means to the black community. It’s full of creativity, it’s putting a spotlight on amazing black talent. I think it’s about self-respect, joy, confidence and liberation.

“At this moment, in our political history, it’s incredibly important to stand next to the black community.”