It was considered one of style\u2019s largest nights, as round 450 high-profile individuals from tech, sports activities, artwork, leisure and extra acquired collectively on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for this 12 months\u2019s Met Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n The theme of this 12 months\u2019s annual fundraiser, \u201cTailored For You,\u201d made it clear that friends had been invited to be as inventive as attainable inside the framework of basic tailoring.<\/p>\n \u201cSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style\u201d was the theme for this 12 months\u2019s spring present on the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute. It was the primary Met present to focus completely on Black designers, and the primary in additional than 20 years to have a menswear theme.<\/p>\n Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The Met Gala, held yearly on the primary Monday in May, is a soir\u00e9e to boost cash for the Costume Institute, the museum\u2019s assortment of style objects. Each 12 months, a unique theme honours a designer, fashion or look.<\/p>\n It was Monica L. Miller\u2019s 2009 e book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity<\/em>, that impressed this 12 months\u2019s present and led Andrew Bolton, curator of all of the blockbuster Costume Institute reveals, to convey her in as visitor curator. The present makes use of dandyism as a lens by means of which to discover the formation of Black fashion over time.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\")