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Sorry, fashion fans, but we’ll officially have to wait until next year to see if Bella Hadid will make her long-awaited Met Gala comeback.
Tonight, the supermodel was notably missing in action from the 2025 Met Gala festivities—though her older sister, Gigi Hadid, attended. While she has yet to publicly comment on why she skipped this year’s event, her absence may come as no surprise to fans who have been following Hadid’s recent moves. Lately, the supermodel has focused her attention on other non-fashion related enterprises, such as the launch of her fragrance brand, Orebella.
Just a few days ago, Hadid celebrated Orebella’s one-year anniversary in an Instagram post that showcased dreamy poolside photos. “One year of the most personal, thought-provoking, exciting, challenging, and most of all inspiring years of my life,” she wrote in the caption. “I’ve always been searching for what God has planned for me, and what my purpose is in this world. The one thing I always knew is that whatever I did, I wanted to do it with people I loved. Be passionate about it. Be able to keep my mind creative, hard-working, and completely invested and inspired about the future. Most of all, it had to come from my heart and have a purpose.”
Hadid last attended the Met Gala in 2022, when she wore an all-black Burberry look that included a sculpted leather lace-up corset, a draping lace skirt, matching lace tights, and transparent opera gloves.
The dress code for this year’s Met Gala is “Tailored for You,” which is derived from the Costume Institute’s exhibition theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The Institute developed the theme by taking inspiration from Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, a 2009 book by Barnard College professor Monica L. Miller.
“I feel that the show itself marks a really important step in our commitment to diversifying our exhibitions and collections, as well as redressing some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice,” head curator Andrew Bolton said. “It’s very much about making fashion at the Met more of a gateway to access and inclusivity.”
This is the first exhibition since 2003 that will be solely focused on menswear. Appropriately, Pharrell Williams, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky, and Lewis Hamilton have been appointed as co-chairs.
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