MET GALA guests, suit!
That was the command of High As The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the dress code for his annual elaborate fashion celebration in May: “Crew for you”, an allusion to the focus of the accompanying exhibition on suit and men’s fashion.
It is a suitable concept, which of course is to be interpreted generously for the first Met Gala exhibition for more than 20 years in order to concentrate exclusively on men’s fashion, especially on black style in men’s clothing over the centuries.
The Met Costume Institute also announced on Tuesday that a long-term tradition of a “guest committee” will revive-in Grund, a new list of top-class celebrities about the previously announced gala hosts: Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, a $ AP Rocky and LeBron James. (Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who monitors the gala every year, rounds off the list.)
The new committee includes a number of lights from different areas: athletes Simone Biros and husband Jonathan Owens, Angel Rees and Sha’acar Richardson; Filmmacher Spee Lee, Tonya Lewis Lewis Lewis; Actor Ayo Edebiri, Audra McDonald and Jeremy Pope; Musician Doechi, Usher, Tyla, Janelle Monae and Andre 3000; Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Artist Jordan Castel, Rashid Johnson and Kan Walker; Dramatist Jeremy O. Harris and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; and fashion figures Gras Borner, Edward Ennnifful, Dapper Dan and Olavier Roustein.
The short story behind this year’s Met Gala clothing regulations.
The celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi creates the menu for the gala. The annual event, which brought in a record of more than 26 million US dollars in the USA last year last year, also starts a large fundraising campaign for the costume institute.
This year’s Superfine exhibition: Tacoring Black Style will run for longer than earlier shows after six months and is inspired by Monica L. Millers book Slaves to fashion: black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity.
“The topic this year is not only in time,” said Usher, “but also for our rich culture, which should always be widespread.”
Richardson added: “Our style is not just what we wear, but how we move, how we have our space, how we tell our story without saying a word.” Both members of the guest committee spoke in a statement made by the Met.
The Met says the show “presents a cultural and historical study of the black style from the 18th century to the present day through the lens of dandyism”. Miller, a Barnard professor and guest curator of the show, together with the Star Curator of Met, Andrew Bolton, was found last year at a museum events that “Dandies” often in the 1780s as “men who have pronounced and sometimes excessive Attention was paid, dressed.
“The historical definitions of dandyism range from absolute precision in dress and adaptation to flamboyance and fabulous,” said Miller. The show will concentrate specifically on black dandyism; In a broader sense, it will record how black dress and fashion have used over the centuries to change their identity, the museum said.
Hypershabes and architectural roots
One of the artists who contribute to the exhibition design includes gate kWase Dyson, which will use their signature “Hypershapes”, to create independent monumental sculptures or “architectural zones”.
The artist Ike Ude, a consultant of the show, will curate a section that highlights Julius Soubise, one of the first black dandies that questioned the social norms in the London of the 18th century.
The show is divided into 12 sections, each representing a feature that defines the “Dandy” style: possession, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, champion, respectability, jook, heir, beauty, cool and cosmopolitanism.
The Met Gala takes place on May 5th. Superfine: The adaptation to the black style is accessible to the public from May 10th to October 26th.
