Each year, the Met Gala gives the brightest stars a chance to shine on the museum’s red carpet, and 2025 was no exception. 

Co-chaired by A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton and Colman Domingo with the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” this year’s iteration of the annual event held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was dedicated to celebrating “the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance and proliferation of the Black dandy” through fashion. As a result, guests ranging from Rihanna to Teyana Taylor, Janelle Monáe, JENNIE of BLACKPINK, Doechii and more showed up and showed out on the red carpet, with a couple of them even going down in the Billboard history books as some of the best dressed Met Gala attendees of all time.  

But they are just a few of the many stars who have stolen the show at the Met over the years, with past memorable looks spanning from the iconically campy (see Lady Gaga’s grand entrance in four separate looks for 2019’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion”) and positively reverential (2018’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”) to all things avant garde and haute couture (basically every time Ri shuts down the carpet — most memorably in the hand-constructed yellow gown she wore for 2015’s “China: Through the Looking Glass”). The event is also a place each year for designers and fashion houses to flex their muscles too, dreaming up custom pieces for their celebrity models to wear in the hopes that one or more will be remembered for years in Met Gala infamy. 

Click through Billboard‘s gallery of some of the best Met Gala looks over the years below.