https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5386679/met-gala-2025-preview-black-style
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This is the dumbest ■■■■ever. Wtf is “black style”. So people of certain skin colours have to dress a certain way. Not blaming you but the article or whatever event organizer made that up sounds racist.
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I read it multiple times and still have no idea what it’s talking about.
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Idk probably some out of touch ceo’s attempt at seeming inclusive to make money. Seems pretty lame. I know it’s not explicitly racist but just stinks of it lol. I didn’t know people’s personal style was determined by the colour of their skin. Anyways I probably won’t respond any more to this thread cause I don’t wanna get heated. Thanks 
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[Officially, the dress code is “tailored for you.” And while guests are invited to take that to “creative interpretation,” the exhibition they will be arriving at will be “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” It’s a look at how clothing and style is connected to Black identities. 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love The Picture Show 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love The show is guest-curated by Monica Miller, and inspired by her 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. When Miller spoke to NPR about the book in 2012, she said the roots of Black dandyism go back to the 17th and 18th centuries, when wealthy slave-owners would dress up enslaved people in fancy clothing to show off their wealth. And while that was a moment “in which Black people were dressed to be objects,” Miller said, it was also the moment when Black people, men in particular, “flipped the script on that particular mode of degradation,” she said.]
Hopefully that explains the theme.
@anon28938347 Thanks for sharing !
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Maybe they mean they want everybody to dress in black,
Okay that makes sense now.
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I would be concerned that non-African American attendees might “dress up” for the gala in a way that may appear to mock black style and black identity. 
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That’s what I thought.
I understand your concern, but I just watched the Gala and didn’t see any mockery by non-Black attendees. Black style and Black identity, as I learned from watching the Gala, is very broad, so there’s going to be similar styles worn by Black and non-Black attendees.
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