Best 50-plus looks at new york city’s 2025 met gala

It’s fashion's biggest night of the year: the Met Gala. At the New York City star-studded event, designers, celebrities and models line up to see — and be seen — on the blue

daisy-carpeted steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year’s theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” was inspired by Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book _Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism

and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity_. The official gala dress code, “Tailored for You,” focused on the “Black dandy” and the influence of black designers and culture on fashion. Top

designers dressed attendees in themed variations and vied for the most jaw-dropping (often outrageous) looks. The annual fundraiser benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume

Institute; a themed exhibition starts May 6.  Presiding over the spectacle is _Vogue_ editor Anna Wintour, along with co-chairs — award-winning actor Colman Domingo, 55, Formula 1 racecar

driver Lewis Hamilton, rapper-actor-entrepreneur A$AP Rocky and singer-songwriter-producer Pharrell Williams, 52. (Honorary chair, LeBron James, backed out of the event Monday afternoon due

to a knee injury that occurred at the end of the NBA season.) See all the evening's fabulous looks: (From left) Kevin Mazur/MG25/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue;

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images DIANA ROSS, 81 The fabulous Miss Ross still knows how to make an entrance. The iconic singer returned to the gala — her first since 2003 — wearing a

show-stopping silver-white figure-hugging gown topped by an enormous hat and cape trimmed in feathers, a collaboration between Ross, her son Evan, and the designer Ugo Mozie. Ross credited

Evan with convincing her to attend the gala. She told _Vogue _that the outfit held extra meaning to her. Inside the train, “has the names of my children and my eight grandchildren,” she

revealed. “So, everybody’s name is embroidered in.” (From left) Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue ANNA WINTOUR, 75 The queen

of the gala wore a custom Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton sleeveless floor-length silver embroidered gown topped by an ice-blue dress coat and broach. Wintour said to _E!_ that the

opening song on the steps of the Met — “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” sung a cappella by an all-mens choir — was “very special. The whole exhibition has been very moving and very special to

me.” Theo Wargo/FilmMagic/Getty Images GABRIELLE UNION, 52 The _Bring It On_ actress sported a classic, with a twist. Union's impeccably tailored Prada black matte column gown featured

a long white train adorned with flowers, matching the ones she wore in her hair. Perfect!