Black British designer Grace Wales Bonner dressed British Formula One star Sir Lewis Hamilton for tonight.

The pair have worked together in the past with Wales Bonner dressing Hamilton for the 2023 British Fashion Awards.

We’re now starting to see a few other celebrities arriving.

Those spotted so far include influencer Emma Chamberlain, actress and comedian Ego Nwodim, and actor and playwright (and this evening’s co-chair) Colman Domingo, who has donned two looks so far.

Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

Actress and singer Teyana Taylor, who is hosting Vogue’s live-streaming of the red carpet, arrives in custom Marc Jacobs on the arm of costume designer Ruth E. Carter.

Carter has worked with the likes of Spike Lee and on the Marvel Black Panther franchise to create some of our modern pop cultural cues for the black dandy.

Taylor represents this beautifully, pairing a durag with a burgundy cape embroidered with “Harlem Rose,” a nod to her 2018 song.

Behind the leadership of fashion’s matriarch Anna Wintour lies a star-studded list of co-chairs and a host committee.

This year’s co-chairs are designer and musician Pharrell Williams, actor Colman Domingo, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, musician A$AP Rocky and basketball star Lebron James acting as honorary co-chair.

The host committee includes athlete Simone Biles, musicians Doechii, Usher, André 3000 and Tyla, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as well as filmmaker Spike Lee.

Vogue’s editor-in-chief and co-chair of the Met Gala Anna Wintour has arrived at the Met Gala, along with co-chairs Coleman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton.

Earlier, she was spotted dashing out of a hotel in rainy New York City on the way to tonight’s big event.

She is wearing a baby blue tailored long coat with a brooch. Underneath it, she appears to be wearing a silk dress with lace detailing. Of course, Wintour is also sporting her signature sleek bob.

There’s always some Met Gala outfits that are talked about weeks, months and sometimes even years after they grace the red carpet.

Let’s take a look:

Shah Rukh Khan of Bollywood fame is of course not new to red carpets or the galas, but he will making a debut appearance at the Met Gala tonight.

SRK, as he known to many fans, is a heartthrob and a leading man in the world’s biggest film industry. Simply put, he is one of the biggest Bollywood stars of all time, as big a celebrity as it comes.

We will bring you photos from when he arrives tonight.

Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic

This year’s theme is focused on the style of dandyism as pioneered by black men.

The event’s organisers are enforcing a dress code that is related to the theme but leaves room for individual interpretation: “Tailored for You”.

It allows attendees flexibility in developing their own looks to reflect the theme without risking any potential accusations of appropriating the cultural history of black dandyism.

On the red carpet, we can expect to see impeccable tailoring from the likes of Thom Browne, the partner of the Costume Institute’s head curator Andrew Bolton; a slew of Louis Vuitton, the French fashion house helmed by Gala co-chair Pharrell Williams; and fellow co-chair ASAP Rocky, who has really upped his Met Gala game since becoming involved with style icon Rihanna, will no doubt push the boundaries.

“You can’t really use clothing as masculinity anymore. Those lines are blurred, and I like to play with that,” ASAP Rocky told Vogue, while revealing that he raids Rihanna’s wardrobe in the same way she does his.

Co-chair Colman Domingo – who I can’t help but think played a huge role in inspiring the theme as he’s been carrying the baton for well-dressed and daring men on the red carpet for several years now – has already been spotted in a royal blue cloak that pays homage to André Leon Talley, former editor-at-large of Vogue whom Anna Wintour called “a dandy among dandies.”

If you are looking forward to seeing LeBron James on the red carpet, sorry to announce that he is not in the line up.

James, one of this year’s co-hosts, announced on X that he will miss tonight because of injury.

“Unfortunately because of my knee injury I sustained at the end of the season I won’t be able to attend the Met Gala in NY tonight as so many people have been asking and congratulating me on!,” the basketball star said.

His wife, Savannah James, will represent the James household, he said.

“Hate to miss an historical event! My beautiful powerful Queen will be there holding the castle down as she always has done!”

The Met Gala isn’t just America’s biggest fashion show – it’s also a major benefit event.

The gala raises money to support the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and serves as the opener for it’s annual major fashion exhibition.

This year, the Met Gala raised a record $31m (£23m), the New York Times reports.

Arrivals have begun, and we’re getting our first glimpses inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala will take place.

The grand entrance of the museum is awash in purple and pink lighting, and decorated with magnificent floral arrangements. Only a rarefied list of guests will be able to go inside after climbing the museum’s iconic steps, however.

For the general public, they’ll have to brave the rain that has battered New York City all day. Onlookers have gathered outside the Met wearing ponchos and umbrellas, hoping to get a glimpse of celebrities as they arrive.

For all you fashion enthusiasts who don’t want to deal with a downpour, continue to follow our live coverage all night!

The Met Gala is a highly anticipated annual fashion event that attracts celebrities and audiences from around the world. It is also a charity event and fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

The gala is timed to mark the opening of the institute’s annual fashion exhibition. This year, the exhibit is called Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which showcases different characteristics of the Black dandy style.

Here’s a peek at the looks on display as part of the exhibition:

Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue and global chief content officer of Condé Nast, is the brains behind the Met Gala operation and the reigning queen of the fashion world.

She has been planning and hosting the event for three decades, and is touted for turning it into what it is today. Once a dinner for New York high society, it’s now a pop-culture event with a global audience.

Raised in London to a British father and an American mother, Wintour was editor of British Vogue before taking the helm at its US sister publication in 1988.

She is credited with making American Vogue one of the world’s top fashion publications, where her no-nonsense style of management earned her the nickname “Nuclear Wintour”.

“Tailored for you.”

This dress code is inspired by the theme of the 2025 spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.

“Tailored for you” is a nod to the focus on menswear and suiting, according to Vogue, and is “purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation”.

“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, external will explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance and proliferation of the Black dandy,” Vogue adds.

This year’s spring show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is titled “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, and it will be the theme for this year’s Met Gala.

The exhibition examines black style over three centuries through the subject of the black dandy.

“In the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new culture of consumption, fuelled by the slave trade, colonialism, and imperialism, enabled access to clothing and goods that indicated wealth, distinction, and taste,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art explains.

“Black dandyism sprung from the intersection of African and European style traditions.”

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The fashion world’s Christmas Day has rolled around once more as the globe’s biggest stars will be getting ready to walk one of the most exclusive red carpets on the planet.

It is, of course, the Met Gala- the yearly fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in New York, organised by Vogue editor-in-chief and fashion legend Anna Wintour.

It’s the first year since 2003 that the theme is based exclusively on menswear: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” based off the institute’s spring exhibition.

We’ll be here following the biggest fashion and celebrity moments: Who is flouting the theme? Which designers seem to be making the biggest splash? Is the weather in rainy New York City causing any trouble for the attendees’ planned looks?

Stick with us as we dissect it all.