Met Gala 2025: Superfine

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From Runway to Room

Each spring, the Met Gala unites haute couture fashion, art, and culture in a celebration of creativity—and this year’s theme took that mission to new heights by honoring the enduring legacy and innovation of Black style. Fashion isn't exclusive to clothing & apparel, and frequently bleeds into interior design and vice versa. So we want to help you translate the dress code & some of the most memorable outfits we saw into interior design elements.

Dress Code: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

This year’s Met Gala dress code, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” served as a tribute to the artistry, elegance, and cultural power of Black sartorial expression. Inspired by the Vogue exhibition of the same name, the theme highlights how fashion—particularly tailoring—has been used as a form of self-definition, resistance, and radical joy within the Black diaspora.

Central to the theme is the concept of Black Dandyism: an aesthetic rooted in refinement, individuality, and intentional contrast. It blends European tailoring traditions with bold personal flair—bright colors, layered textures, unexpected accessories, and a keen sense of posture and pride. But this isn’t costume—it’s code. Style as narrative. Fabric as statement.

The Met featured lavish suiting, exaggerated proportions, decadent detailing, and confident reinterpretations of classic menswear—all nodding to Harlem Renaissance swagger, Congolese Sapeurs, and contemporary icons of Afro-futurism and streetwear royalty.

Translating Superfine to Interior Design

To translate Superfine into interior spaces is to explore contrast, confidence, and cultural layering. This is a style that doesn’t whisper—it speaks fluently in dualities: elegance and rebellion, classicism and creativity, structure and soul.

Key style signatures may include:

Sharp Structure: Think tailored lines in furniture, fluted textures, and architectural elements that echo suiting seams and pleats.
Vibrant Expression: Rich color stories—royal purples, emerald greens, oxblood reds, ochres, and deep blues—paired with striking blacks, crisp whites, and metallics.
Mixed Heritage Materials: Blend velvets, lacquered wood, houndstooth or pinstripe tile patterns, leather, silk, and polished stone for a multi-textural space that feels both elevated and grounded.
Cultural Curation: Artwork, objects, and silhouettes that reference Black excellence across eras—from barbershop signs to baroque frames, from Sapeur style to soul train funk.

This is a style that embraces presence, pride, and personal history—where every object is chosen like an accessory: purposefully placed and ready to make a statement.

Design Comps

Below are three tile + design comps inspired by looks from the night:

Harlem Revival: Teyana Taylor partnered up with Black Panther costume designer Ruth E. Carter to deliver a masterclass in tailored elegance with bold suiting, layered textures, and nods to Harlem Renaissance grandeur. Some interior design takeaways we can get from this outfit are rich reds & ornate trim pieces & details (similar in styling to LORRAINE encaustic tile), and black-on-black pinstripes (alike the black fluted SETON subway tile).

Rich Red Leather: Jodie Turner Smith worked with Burberry to create a embossed leather dress that blends British equestrian with bespoke tailoring, creating a reimagined version of dandyism that pays homage to the Belle Époch era in Paris. TUSCANO ROSSO, a rich red marble with striking white veining, instantly comes to mind looking at this outfit.

Checkerboard Transformation: Colman Domingo pushed boundaries by entering in an ornate blue cape which he then removed to reveal a black and white suit. The ornate cape is strikingly similar to blue fluted tile such as LAPIS Bleu Notte, and the suit underneath combined screams SPEC Dalmatian.