The Best Looks At The 2025 Met Gala Pre-Parties

The best looks from the pre-parties before the 2025 Met Gala, including Doechii, Hunter Schafer, Hari Nef, Ayo Edebiri, Sabrina Carpenter, and more.

May 18, 2025 - 11:32
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The Best Looks At The 2025 Met Gala Pre-Parties
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If you’re not familiar with the rigamarole around the Met Gala, you may be confused as to why we’re covering fashion that isn’t on the museum’s staircase. The Met is every fashion-obsessed celebrity’s time to flew their sartorial prowess and make a statement — but nobody is doing a one-and-done photo opportunity anymore. There are pre-and-after-parties to be attended, looks to be turned, and air kisses to be doled out to longtime pals and new acquaintances. It’s almost like the Oscars or Grammys, in the sense that by the time the actual event happens, we’ve gotten dozens of fresh-off-the-runway looks and vintage pulls — and our appetite has yet to be quenched.

We’re hoping to see some of our favorites, who we know are throwing, hosting, or otherwise stepping out to parties, including Miley Cyrus, Doechii, Ayo Edebiri, Megan Thee Stallion, Emily Ratajkowski, the Bieber-Jenner cohort, and many more recognizable faces and names. (A special thank you and hats off to everyone’s respective styling and beauty teams, who are clocking in a month’s worth of hours in the span of four days.) See who caught our eyes below.

Rihanna in custom Prada

At Anna Wintour’s Pre-Met Gala Dinner | Backgrid

A$AP Rocky

At Anna Wintour’s Pre-Met Gala dinner | Backgrid

Doechii in Louis Vuitton

At The Vogue Pre-Met Kickoff Party | Backgrid

Joey King in Miu Miu

At The Vogue Pre-Met Kickoff Party | Backgrid

Laura Harrier in Conner Ives

At The Vogue Pre-Met Kickoff Party | Backgrid

Hunter Schafer in Undercover

At the Johnnie Walker x Olivier Rousteing Pre-Met Party | The Hapa Blonde/GC Images/Getty Images

Laura Harrier in Versace

At the Versace x Moda Operandi Cocktail | Janet Mayer/Shutterstock

Kelela in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Ayo Edebiri in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Tracee Ellis Ross in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Solange Knowles in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Hari Nef in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Justine Skye in Ferragamo

At the Ferragamo Pre-Met dinner | Zach Hilty / BFA

Paloma Elsesser

At Grace Wales Bonner presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim | Hannah Turner Harts/BFA.com/Shutterstock

Sabrina Carpenter in Versace

At the Versace x Moda Operandi Cocktail | Backgrid

Anne Hathaway in Versace

At the Versace x Moda Operandi Cocktail | Janet Mayer/Shutterstock

Paloma Elsesser

At the Black Hair Reimagined Show | The Hapa Blonde/GC Images/Getty Images

Lupita Nyong’o in Balmain

At the Johnnie Walker x Olivier Rousteing Pre-Met Party | The Hapa Blonde/GC Images/Getty Images

Miley Cyrus in Moncler x EE72 by Edward Enninful

Tracee Ellis Ross in Ferragamo

At the Bergdorf Goodman x Ferragamo cocktail. | Zach Hilty / BFA.com

Paloma Elsesser in Ferragamo

At the Bergdorf Goodman x Ferragamo cocktail | Zach Hilty / BFA.com

Vanessa Hong in Ferragamo

At the Bergdorf Goodman x Ferragamo cocktail | Zach Hilty / BFA.com

LaKeith Stanfield in Ferragamo

At the Bergdorf Goodman x Ferragamo cocktail | Zach Hilty / BFA.com

Venus X

At Grace Wales Bonner presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim | Hannah Turner Harts / BFA.com

Kimberly Drew

At Grace Wales Bonner presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim | Hannah Turner Harts / BFA.com

Selah Marley

At Grace Wales Bonner presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim | Hannah Turner Harts / BFA.com

Amaarae in Wales Bonner

At Grace Wales Bonner presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim | Hannah Turner Harts / BFA.com

Jazzelle

At the Black Excellence Dinner hosted by Dine with Dez and Flo Ngala | Andre Gray

Aweng Ade-Chuol

At the Black Excellence Dinner hosted by Dine with Dez and Flo Ngala | Andre Gray