A$AP Rocky and Pharrell have been announced as co-chairs of the 2025 Met Gala, alongside Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Anna Wintour and honorary chair LeBron James.
On Wednesday (October 9), the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the co-chairs as they revealed their spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” According to Vogue, the exhibit will feature “garments, paintings, photographs, and more—all exploring the indelible style of Black men in the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century through present day.”
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The 2025 Met Gala will take place on May 5, with the dress code set to be announced in the next few months. The exhibit will be on view the following day through October 26, 2025.
This will mark Pharrell’s second time as co-chair for the prestigious fashion event, having previously done so in 2017 for their “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” theme. It is Rocky’s first, though both have attended the gala many times.
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On the music side of things, A$AP Rocky is preparing to drop his next studio album Don’t Be Dumb, but after pushing back its initial August 30 release date, it now has an unspecified fall release.
He recently described the LP as “grim” and a mix of “German expressionism [and] ghetto futurism.” The effort will serve as his first album in six years and the follow up to his third album Testing, which arrived to mixed reviews in 2018.
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Flacko also described the project as “the best album he’s ever made,” according to Billboard.
It continues: “Don’t Be Dumb skews slightly heavier topically and goes deeper than Rocky’s usual vainglorious works. The 35-year-old jack-of-all-that’s-fly chalks this up to him getting older (‘I’m an OG now’) and wiser and the world being batshit crazy at the moment.
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“One of the first songs he recorded for the album is a grim, experimental track called ‘Shroom Cloud’ that deals with ‘current affairs and world wars and, you know, the world dying and whatnot.’”
On par with his aforementioned “grim” description, Rocky revealed he played the project for legendary director Tim Burton, who he unsuccessfully attempted to recruit to create the cover art.
“I sat and I played the album for Tim Burton, and he was fucking with it heavy,” the father of two said. “[H]e was rocking his head and he’s like, ‘Wow! I didn’t know you made that kind of music!’”
Rocky did, however, manage to secure musical contributions from Burton’s frequent collaborator, composer Danny Elfman, including on a song produced by The Alchemist.
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Other prominent producers also expected to make the album include Metro Boomin, Tyler, The Creator, Pharrell, Madlib and Mike Dean.
