Vogue’s Grand DAME ANNA WINTOUR has a big set of balls to make THE MET GALA 2025 a big F…U to Trump

Who knew that VOGUE’s Grand Dame, ANNA WINTOUR, has such a big set of balls? As nearly all of the US media have allowed Trump to bully them into a deafening silence as he singularly destroys both our democracy and our country, Ms Wintour is a lone voice of opposition  At this year’s MET GALA, a major annual highlight in NY’s social calendar that attracts society and fashion creme de la creme and results in acres of press coverage, she is going rogue.

This historic event, always the first Monday in May celebrates the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual exhibition. Held on May 5 this year, the theme and exhibition  is ”Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”

The assignment for the throngs of attending celebrities and fashion icons is to dress in a style that’s “Tailored for You.” The theme draws inspiration from Monica Miller’s 2009 book, ”Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.” Miller, chair of Africana studies at Barnard College, also is a guest curator for the exhibition. 

Emil Wilbekin, of the Fashion Institute of Technology, explained the cultural significance of this year’s theme, noting, “With the ‘Superfine’ exhibition happening in this era of [Donald] Trump and anti-DEI, the rolling back of civil rights bills, laws and policies, here comes this exhibition that’s celebrating the very thing being rolled back. It’s a very high and very intellectual form of resistance.”  He went on to explain the Met Gala has the highest engagement across all social platforms and it gets higher and higher each year. To imagine all of these Black male celebrities, authors, thought leaders, athletes, actors and playwrights on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art — it’s going to be profound.” Because of the instant and viral power of social media, the resonance of these images is going to be exponential.

Standing beside Ms. Wintour as the 2025 gala’s co-chairs will be the musician and men’s wear designer Pharrell Williams, the rapper ASAP Rocky, the Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton and the actor Colman Domingo. For the

first time since 2019, there will also be a host committee, which, along with the chairs, is pretty much a mosaic of Black excellence: the athletes Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Broadway star Audra McDonald, the singers Tyla and Usher — you get the idea.

Vogue hosts the yearly event to fundraise for the Costume Institute, with tickets for entry at $75,000 PLUS unlike other cultural heavyweights such as the Smithsonian Institution, which President Trump recently singled out in an executive order, the Metropolitan Museum receives very little federal funding, and so is much less vulnerable to pressure from Washington.