Met Gala 2025 red carpet: pinstripes, capes and pouring rain – in pictures

Colman Domingo arrives in a sapphire cloak and golden mantel designed by Alessandro Michele, formerly of Gucci and now at the helm of Valentino.

The Sing Sing star sheds the cloak to reveal a joyfully pattern-clashing look of grids and polka dots.

Gigi Hadid’s golden gown is custom Miu Miu, inspired by the US fashion designer and costumer Zelda Wynn Valdes, who created the tight tux and tails worn by Playboy bunny waitresses.

Whoopi Goldberg’s finger caps are apparently because she ‘couldn’t get a manicure’ but the thimble-style accessories could just as easily be a nod to the hours of stitching that no doubt went into this look by New York’s most playful tailor, Thom Browne.

In an electric blue bubble dress with an ultra-long train, Olympic gymnast and host committee member Simone Biles says her job this year is to ‘just show up, have a good time, wear a beautiful fit, and then just walk the carpet’. Her husband Jonathan Owens matches the look with a large blue crystal brooch, offsetting his white tuxedo with fringe-hemmed trousers.

Inspired by a Kim Novak look from The Legend of Lylah Clare, Sydney Sweeney wears a fringe-shouldered gown by Miu Miu.

Not exactly on theme but elegant nonetheless, Pamela Anderson sports minimal makeup, a brand new bob and a heavily padded, heavily sequinned gown by Tory Burch.

Walton Goggins of White Lotus arrives in a twirl-worthy skirt and deconstructed coat by Thom Browne.

Zendaya’s all-white take on the zoot suit, a lavish look worn in Harlem’s dance halls from the mid-1930s. This one is designed by Pharrell Williams, the men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton.

Speaking of Pharrell, the man himself wears a double-breasted, pearl-embellished tuxedo jacket of his own making, with his wife Helen Lasichanh also in Louis Vuitton.

Tracee Ellis Ross in a tonal pink custom Marc Jacobs suit. She told Vogue she got shivers when milliner Stephen Jones placed his hat on her head.

Serena Williams’ arrival, with former British Vogue editor Edward Enniful, sparks screams from the paparazzi. It took two helpers to get her tourmaline train coat, designed by outdoor wear label Moncler, up the stairs.

Demi Moore is on theme in a black and white gown by Thom Browne resembling a necktie

Alicia Keys arrives.

Sabrina Carpenter attributes her lack of trousers to designer Pharrell Williams, who refused to make them given her diminutive stature. That didn’t stop him adding elongated tux tails to her coffee-coloured tightly tailored jacket.

Aimee Lou Wood, who said she was terrified to turn up to her first Met Gala, arrives with Patrick Schwarzenegger. She’s wearing UK designer Pri Ahluwalia, while Schwarzenegger’s yolk yellow shirt and pinstripe suit is custom Balmain.

Ayo Edibiri in a white shirt-turned-gown, dripping in red crystals, by Ferragamo’s creative director Maximilian Davis. Edibiri told Vogue Davis is ‘Black and part of the diaspora’.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas in a dotty custom Balmain look by designer Olivier Rousteing.

In a fresh mint green suit by Chanel, Lupita Nyong’o accessorises with one of the house’s signature camellias.