Louis Vuitton Fashion Close-up at the Met Gala

By Temo Mpodi

Louis Vuitton didn’t sway from it’s a-Game at this year’s Met Gala. Had it ever? Standing as the sponsor of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute’s Spring 2025 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pharrel Williams co-chaired this year’s Met Gala as the Creative Director.

A few celebrities partnered with the brand for their red-carpet garments. Pharrell and Helen Williams, Future, Zendaya, Callum Turner, Lisa, Pusha-T, Jeremy Allen White, Doechii, Malcolm Washington, Sabrina Carpenter and Henry Taylor. We dive on the three most sought after looks…

PHARRELL WILLIAMS

Pharrell Williams wore Louis Vuitton to the 2025 Met Gala. A double-breasted, cropped evening jacket hand-crafted entirely in interlaced white pearls in two different sizes created a pinstriped effect, and flared trousers tailored in fine black wool. The suit was worn with a white sea island cotton shirt and a black silk tie. Paired with LV Jazz derbies in supple black leather and a Speedy P9 Bandoulière 20 evening bag in burgundy crocodile leather with an aged gold Millionaire chain, the look gave that luxe touch and classy touch.

The silhouette epitomised the dandy vision at the heart of the Men’s Creative Director’s practice at Louis Vuitton. Illustrating the artisanal excellence of the Louis Vuitton Studio Prêt-à-Porter Homme and its atelier, the jacket was hand-crafted entirely in latticed strings of pearls.

ZENDAYA

Zendaya’s look was composed of a single-breasted tuxedo with flared trousers woven in white matte silk and radzimir, and a matching waistcoat. It was worn over a white silk dress shirt and a white silk wide necktie. The look was paired with a wide-brimmed floppy white felt hat.

Created for Zendaya by Men’s Creative Director Pharrell Williams, the tailleur echoed the superfine spirit of Black dandyism and its zoot suits in the statuesque female adaptation of classic men’s tailoring in the 1980s, the era’s notion of power-dressing, and the suit-centric fashion photography that captured it. The hat reimagined the fedoras worn with men’s suits by Black female artists who trailblazed the rhythm-and-blues fusion with rock ‘n’ roll in the 1970s.

SABRINA CARPENTER

Sabrina Carpenter was different with a tailcoat elongated into a train tailored in relief pin-striped burgundy wool jacquard with crystal buttons, and a corseted body structured in the same cloth. She wore it with a white, high starched shirt collar. The look was paired with a hard-sided Mini Trunk evening bag in burgundy leather with hand-embroidered crystal pinstripes.

The tailleur transformed the dandy tailcoat into a piano jacket with elongated tails, evoking the stage suits of twentieth-century showmen. Employing the sartorial expertise of the Louis Vuitton Men’s atelier, the body fused the fine tailoring tradition of London’s Savile Row with the corseterie of Parisian haute couture. Enhanced in relief form, the pinstripes paid homage to the emblematic suit of the Jazz Age dandy. The detached starched collar nods at the shirting assemblage of the dandy dressing ritual, while its amplified height pays homage to the princely wardrobes of 1980s’ rock legends. Conceived for the event, a special-edition hard-sided Mini Trunk mirrored the pinstripes of the dandy wardrobe in the classic Louis Vuitton luggage silhouette.