The Met Costume Institute Reckons With Black Identity in Spring-Exhibition Theme

Vanity Fair: On the first Monday of May, fixtures from the worlds of art, fashion, Hollywood, sports and so on, will once again descend on The Metropolitan Museum steps for The Met Gala. Ahead of the festivities, the Costume Institute announced on Wednesday its spring 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, a simultaneous examination of the Black dandy, a historical and cultural figure defined as “one who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably,” from 18th-century Enlightenment Europe to today.