The look is also a nod to 2025 co-chair Colman Domingo, who is making his directorial debut with the filmSydney Sweeney went method for the 2025 Met Gala.The actress wore a sparkling black Miu Miu gown with an asymmetric boob cutout that she told interviewers was intended to evoke a similar dress worn by Kim Novak,

The Anyone But You star walked up the carpeted steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a sequined black gown from Miu Miu that made the whole place shimmer. The piece had curtains of beaded fringe at the shoulders, and a circular cutout at the chest was fastened at the neckline by an abstract golden rosette.