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Tailoring Black Style: The Met Gala stands against Trump’s anti-DEI agenda

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Fashion fights back: Resisting the erosion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion


Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is the theme of the 2025 Met Gala. A direct response to the growing threat to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) under Trump’s influence. As the Trumpization of politics fuels division across American culture and beyond, the global fashion industry is pushing back. So, this year’s Met Gala deliberately centres Black creativity. In fact, the event caught our attention because we see fashion as culture. Specifically, we’re interested in unpacking the concepts and messages woven into the clothes.

The Met Gala: Beyond celebrity spectacle


We’ve never been ardent admirers of the Met Gala. Ostensibly a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the event has devolved into a display of celebrity excess, far removed from true elegance. As Tom Ford once remarked, “The event turned into a costume party.”

But this year, something different happened.

Tailoring Black Style: Fashion as identity and resistance


The 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, focuses on cultural significance, not just celebrity theatrics. Divided into 12 sections, it draws inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, exploring how African American designers have shaped global fashion.

The dress code, Tailored for You, was more than an aesthetic choice—it was a declaration of identity. As Anna Wintour stated, “In this political moment, this exhibition and gala stand in solidarity with the Black community.”

A defiant statement against Trump’s anti-DEI policies


However, the timing is no coincidence. Within Trump’s first 100 days in office, DEI initiatives faced aggressive dismantling, including attempts to erase Black history from cultural institutions. Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth Carter voiced a shared frustration: “They’re taking everything away from us.”

So, this year’s Met Gala was a direct challenge to that erasure. By celebrating Black contributions to fashion, it resisted the administration’s regressive policies.

Final thoughts


With Tailoring Black Style, the Met Gala not only celebrated the Black community’s contribution to fashion but also reinforced fashion’s role as a cultural and political statement.

As DEI principles come under attack, events like this matter. They are acts of defiance—reminders that culture cannot be whitewashed. In this spirt, we stand with every individual, brand, and institution that rejects the Trumpization of society and upholds the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Who Wore Who? Who Really Cares!

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Met Gala and the celebrities’ circus


‘Who wore who’ is the question we try to avoid these days. Specifically, the Met Gala raises significant doubts as we can’t see glamour or elegance. Indeed, this annual gathering of celebrities organised by Vogue looks more like a circus than a glamourous event, leaving little room for true sophistication.

The Met Gala is a fundraising event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City, which marks the opening of the Institute’s annual fashion exhibition. Known as the “fashion’s biggest night,” it aims to represent the fashion universe.

The theme of the 2023 edition was “in honour of Karl.” Lagerfeld, of course. Though every year faces its own controversy, the event went out of hand.

Met Gala & who wore what


We see two main issues:
First, people expect to witness a representation of fashion, style, and glamour. Just, we haven’t seen any of that. Although we can pick out a few nice outfits every year choosing the best-dressed, the whole thing is gross, excessive. And it feels sad to see fashion depicted like that. Moreover, we are surprised because even the actors that usually have an elegant figure, lose it at the gala.

Second, brands pay celebrities to wear their clothes because they influence the masses to buy their products. However, this perpetuates a toxic culture, pushing people to compare themselves to an unattainable lifestyle.
How do celebrities choose one brand over another? Simple: whoever writes the highest figure cheque; that’s the one they pick. Forget any style choice—it’s all about the money.
Most importantly, the “celebrity cost” is absorbed in the retail price of clothing, shoes, and handbags. In the end, it’s the consumers who pay to sustain the extravagant lifestyles of their idols—idols who, ironically, could afford luxury even without these brand endorsements.

In short, celebrities pay to attend the gala while getting paid by brands to wear their clothes. It’s a full-blown celebrities’ circus!

But the real question is: why are people supporting this? That’s the point!
Who wore who? Honestly, who really cares!”

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The Met Gala Circus

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A glimpse into the world of bad taste


People may think that events such as Met Gala offer hints of elegance. Please, forget it. Raised eyebrows were our reaction to viewing the pictures, not for facial gymnastics but as a sign of perplexity. What’s the point of that wild parade?

Our last post was about elegance; we wonder what went wrong with it, why bad taste prevailed, and here comes the Met Gala to present further suggestions.

Met Gala – What is it?


Born for the purpose of charity, Met Gala is the annual fundraising event of the Costume Institute Gala by the New York Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Every year there’s a different theme, and so the guests have to dress for that theme.

The problem is that dressing to a theme got out of hand. So now we see celebrities dressed as clowns whose unspoken message is a cry for attention, an attitude that resembles social media communication. And so, even if the charitable purpose is worthy, the sad show offered by the clownesque looks makes it seem paradoxical.

Tom Ford, who showed up in a classic black tailcoat, said: “I don’t really do themes”. Also, he declared that the event turned “into a costume party”. We couldn’t agree more. Tom Ford’s words were really on point. Like his outfit, which was impeccable. Elegant indeed.

Lately, the Met Gala looks recalled more of the “Carnevale di Viareggio” rather than a stylish event. (Side note: Carnevale di Viareggio is one of the biggest carnival shows in Italy and the world).

Finally, we go back to the point: elegance is dead, and there are no style icons. In other words, we live in the bad taste era, where the language that dominates is the social media language, and the need to impress others is all that counts.

Met Gala? Elegance has nothing to do with that.

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