A$AP Rocky and Pharrell have been introduced as co-chairs of the 2025 Met Gala, alongside Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Anna Wintour and honorary chair LeBron James.
On Wednesday (October 9), the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork introduced the co-chairs as they revealed their spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type.” In accordance with Vogue, the exhibit will characteristic “clothes, work, images, and extra—all exploring the indelible fashion of Black males within the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century by way of current day.”
The 2025 Met Gala will happen on Could 5, with the gown code set to be introduced within the subsequent few months. The exhibit will probably be on view the next day by way of October 26, 2025.
This may mark Pharrell’s second time as co-chair for the distinguished vogue occasion, having beforehand finished so in 2017 for his or her “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Artwork of the In-Between” theme. It’s Rocky’s first, although each have attended the gala many instances.
On the music aspect of issues, A$AP Rocky is getting ready to drop his subsequent studio album Don’t Be Dumb, however after pushing again its preliminary August 30 launch date, it now has an unspecified fall launch.
He not too long ago described the LP as “grim” and a mixture of “German expressionism [and] ghetto futurism.” The trouble will function his first album in six years and the comply with as much as his third album Testing, which arrived to blended critiques in 2018.
Flacko additionally described the venture as “the perfect album he’s ever made,” in keeping with Billboard.
It continues: “Don’t Be Dumb skews barely heavier topically and goes deeper than Rocky’s typical vainglorious works. The 35-year-old jack-of-all-that’s-fly chalks this as much as him getting older (‘I’m an OG now’) and wiser and the world being batshit loopy in the intervening time.
“One of many first songs he recorded for the album is a grim, experimental monitor referred to as ‘Shroom Cloud’ that offers with ‘present affairs and world wars and, you realize, the world dying and whatnot.’”
On par together with his aforementioned “grim” description, Rocky revealed he performed the venture for legendary director Tim Burton, who he unsuccessfully tried to recruit to create the quilt artwork.
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“I sat and I performed the album for Tim Burton, and he was fucking with it heavy,” the daddy of two mentioned. “[H]e was rocking his head and he’s like, ‘Wow! I didn’t know you made that form of music!’”
Rocky did, nonetheless, handle to safe musical contributions from Burton’s frequent collaborator, composer Danny Elfman, together with on a track produced by The Alchemist.
Different distinguished producers additionally anticipated to make the album embody Metro Boomin, Tyler, The Creator, Pharrell, Madlib and Mike Dean.
