The 2025 Met Gala red carpet is open. This year’s event coincides with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The dress code, Tailored for You, is inspired by the exhibition’s focus on menswear and suiting.

Entertainment Weekly rounds up our 20 favorite looks from the 2025 Met Gala, specifically those we felt were the most inventive, playful, or on theme.

See our favorite looks from an evening of dignified, grown-up glamour at the Met. On some occasions, the Met Gala veers into the territory of the fantastical or even cartoonish (see: last year’s “Garden of Time” dress code;