Anna Wintour exclusively told Live From E! that the Met Gala 2025 theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” pays homage to the late fashion visionary and her friend, André Leon Talley.

Anna Wintour is remembering André Leon Talley at the Met Gala 2025. 

The Vogue editor, who helped plan fashion’s biggest night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, detailed how the evening’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme and its coordinating dress code Tailored for You, pay homage to her late friend. 

“I just hope that people see the exhibition and understand the talent that is involved in putting it together,” Wintour told E!’s Zuri Hall at the Met Gala 2025. “And the incredible designers that we’re putting a spotlight on in the show. And the people who have influenced the show like my friend André Leon Talley, who’s been such an inspiration throughout.”

As she put it in the exhibition—which will be displayed at the New York museum from May 10 to October 26, “It’s about optimism and hope and community. I hope that many, many people come and see it.”

And Wintour emphasized that this year’s theme, which is the Met Gala’s first time focusing exclusively on menswear since 2003, was planned “several years ago.”

“We were in a different political climate,” she explained. “But I think it has taken on a sense of purpose and a sense of urgency.”

She gushed, “The whole exhibition has been very moving and very special to me.” (See a peek into the exhibition here.)

Of course, Wintour and Talley were close friends and colleagues prior to the fashion icon’s tragic death in 2022. At the time, notable members of the fashion community, including Wintour, mourned the loss of a true icon in their industry. 

“It’s the loss of André as my colleague and friend that I think of now,” Wintour penned in an obituary for Talley in 2022. “It’s immeasurable. He was magnificent and erudite and wickedly funny—mercurial, too. Like many decades-long relationships, there were complicated moments, but all I want to remember today, all I care about, is the brilliant and compassionate man who was a generous and loving friend to me and to my family for many, many years, and who we will all miss so much.”

Keep reading to see Talley’s talent honored in all of the Met Gala attendees’ looks…. 

Coco Jones

Adrienne Warren

Breanna Stewart

Al Sharpton

Kwame Onwuachi

Saquon Barkley

Grace Murdoch & Wendi Murdoch

In Thom Browne.

Sydney Sweeney

In custom Miu Miu.

Gustav Magnar Witzoe

Colman Domingo

In Valentino with Boucheron jewelry.

Raúl Domingo

Pharrell Williams & Helen Lasichanh

In Louis Vuitton.

Gina Alice Redlinger

Christian Latchman

Bee Carrozzini

In Givenchy.

Jill Kargman

Lewis Hamilton

In custom Louis Vuitton.

Colman Domingo

In Valentino.

Scott Evans

Anna Wintour

In custom Louis Vuitton.

Ego Nwodim

In custom Christopher John Rogers.

Teyana Taylor

In custom Marc Jacobs.

Emma Chamberlain

In custom Courrèges.

La La Anthony

In custom Atelier Biser.

Zuri Hall

In Bishme Cromartie.

Source: www.eonline.com