Is it dead with Gala? Fans compare the biggest evening of fashion with a funeral, while big stars are not shown on a red carpet

On what is considered the biggest night of fashion, the 2025 Gala is beaten as ‘boring’ and ‘underwhelming’ after not delivering the star power and glamor of recent years.

The annual invitation-all-soiree started on Monday New York Citythe famous Metropolitan Museum of Art with A-list with A-list such as Blake Lively” Taylor Swift” Lady Gaga And Katy Perry Noticeably missing in the guest list.

While the theme ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ this year offered a chance for ‘Boundary-Pushing’ appearance, The red carpet was besieged by celebrities in boring black and gray outfits.

Even Bombshells like Sydney Sweeney And Dua Lipa Not noticed when they made the pull of the iconic staircase of the museum in forgetful dresses.

While ‘not following the theme’ is usually a large faux pass, Gigi Hadid‘S Slinky Gold Miu Miu Dress was a welcome postponement under a sea of ​​gloomy dresses and suits.

Fans compared the 2025 event with a ‘funeral’ while they flowed to social media to express their disappointment – with some even speculate that it is ‘dead’ with gala.

“Maybe it’s the theme, I don’t know, but so far the outfits on it with gala are so boring, boring and just underwhelming #met gala,” tweeted a fan on X.

Another stated that the 2025 event was the ‘most boring #metgala ever’.

Fans were exhausted and saw the same ‘boring suits’ worn by Hollywood Hunks Jeremy Allen White and Callum Turner on the red carpet.

Some wondered whether celebrities ‘misunderstood’ – aimed at black dandyism – or that it accidentally encouraged ‘boring’ appearance.

“You know that the theme is boring when most people look simple and even Zendaya flopped,” an X user noticed.

While the ‘boring’ outfits of the night dominated the conversation on social media, a lot could not help with Gala -but comments about the lack of star power.

Many remained disappointed when they wasted time, waiting for Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Blake Lively to ‘show up’.

Swift skipped it with Gala, even though both her and her NFL star friend Travis Kelce were invited by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

The SWIFT schedule is apparently open open after packing her time trip for billion dollars at the end of last year, while Kelce enjoys NFL out of season.

However, a source told TMZ On Monday, the couple chose to register for the 2025 event because of ‘their schedules’.

Both Lady Gaga and Katy Perry-Die Fan favorite with Gala participants have become with their fierce appearance currently on their respective world travel.

The absence of Blake Lively in the event is somewhat expected, because she and her husband Ryan Reynolds are currently in the middle of a Headline-Making Legal War, ends with the American director Justin Baldoni.

Last month TMZ Reported that the old couple would not attend with Gala 2025, but that it has nothing to do with Lively’s multi-million dollar sexual harassment rights case that Baldoni is again.

Insiders told the outlet that Lively and Reynolds took the decision not to be present before the drama began to unfold in December 2024.

“Blake and Ryan have no longer disappeared since 2022, when they were co-presidents, and they will not be present this year,” a separate source told People in April.

Also missing in the 2025 action, gala favorites such as Selena Gomez, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ariana Grande and Bella Hadid.

The biggest night in fashion started on Monday 5 May in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The event has a theme every year, with this year’s theme as ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’, inspired by the work of Monica Miller, including her book Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

Monica is the chairman of Africana Studies at Barnard College, as well as Professor at the Institute.

According to Monica, Zwart Danyism is a strategy and a tool to reconsider the identity, to come up with it again in a different context. To really push a border – especially during the time of slavery, to really push a border on who and what counts as a person, even, “via Vogue.

The accompanying exhibition shows everything, from clothing to paintings, photos and video, all of which bring the fashion of black men to the attention.

The Gala theme of 2025 focuses on men’s clothing, 22 years after the theme ‘Men in skirts’ – that was the first gala that only concentrated on men’s clothing.

The with Gala 2025 is jointly chaired by Lewis Hamilton, a $ AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour, with LeBron James as honorary chairman.

The guest list for the annual Soiree was leaked only a few hours before the start.