If there was one designer who stitched together heritage, intellect, and modern Black elegance with quiet power at this year’s Met Gala, it was Grace Wales Bonner.
The British-Jamaican designer, long celebrated for her ability to fuse Savile Row-level tailoring with diasporic depth, delivered some of the most considered and quietly radical looks on the 2025 red carpet. With the exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” and its fitting dress code “Tailored for You,” few were better equipped to answer the brief than Wales Bonner—whose work has always asked what tailoring can be when it’s rooted in identity, history, and Black brilliance.
Wales Bonner’s aesthetic has long resonated with cultural tastemakers like Kendrick Lamar—[read our earlier profile here]—but at this year’s Gala, her vision expanded into the mainstream spotlight with elegance and force.
Below, every guest who wore Grace Wales Bonner at the Met Gala 2025
Lewis Hamilton, Co-chair of the Met Gala 2025 in bespoke Wales Bonner tailoring, shoes and fine jewelry
Fka Twigs wears a bespoke organza dress and chiffon silk stole with hand embroidered Swarovski crystals and ostrich feathers
Curator of the Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition, Dr. Monica L. Miller, wears archive Wales Bonner crystal and cowrie embroidered cape and bespoke dress
Jeff Goldblum wears bespoke wool-cashmere overcoat with a Mongolian shearing collar, a wool and silk suit in midnight indigo, and Wales Bonner Fine Jewelry
Tyler Mitchell wears a bespoke ivory tuxedo in wool and silk, with a contrast top collar in bright Atlantic Blue. He wears a Mongolian Shearling scarf and Wales Bonner Fine jewelry with SNOW diamonds, feather details and freshwater pearls.
Omar Apollo in bespoke Wales Bonner wool mohair tail coat with hand-beaded leopard vest and Swarovski crystal embellishments
Eric N. Mack wears a bespoke gold brocade opera coat, a suit in flecked black and white wool, and a silk head scarf he had specially made for the Met Gala
