When the Metropolitan Museum of Art andVogue announced the next theme for the 2025 Met Gala—“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, based on scholar Monica L. Miller’s pivotal text, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity—the reaction was one of delight—and also of trepidation. At the forefront of everyone’s mind was André Leon Talley.