Kendall Jenner may have delivered her biggest sartorial surprise to date at the 2025 Met Gala.

With 11 Met Gala appearances under her belt, as of last night, Jenner is no stranger to a showstopping moment: In 2019, she coordinated with sister Kylie in Versace showgirl outfits; last year, she became the first person to ever wear a piece from Alexander McQueen’s fall 1999 Givenchy haute couture collection. And for the 2025 Met Gala, Jenner took a delightfully unexpected route, tapping independent British designer Torishéju Dumi, whose eponymous label, Torishéju, has found fans among Zendaya, Naomi Campbell, and Paloma Elsesser.

“I had a vision of being very minimal and tailored for this Met, and I went on the hunt to find something interesting and fresh and super-exciting to me. Finding a new, young designer was the vision,” Jenner says of Dumi, who was introduced to her by her friend, stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “She’s very technically trained, which gives her a lot of depth to expand on what tailoring can mean.”

While the Costume Institute’s exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” primarily considers Black dandyism in menswear, Jenner and Dumi were galvanized by a female dandy: the queer nightclub singer Gladys Bentley. Dumi stumbled across Bentley when researching Black women who engaged with tailoring, and she found her story particularly poignant. “She had a really strong sense of self,” she says. “Being a woman and taking tailoring—something that many people just perceive to be a menswear aesthetic—she turned it into her own and she dressed it up, took it apart, and made it something that really resonated with her own style, her music, everything.”