Will Taylor Swift Be At The 2025 Met Gala? Here’s What To Know

Actors, singers, athletes, fashion designers, and more will be sporting their finest looks at the 2025 Met Gala tonight. But will Taylor Swift break her Met Gala hiatus and attend the star-studded charity event with Travis Kelce? This could be the year the Eras Tour superstar breaks her almost 10-year absence.

Held annually on the first Monday in May, the Met Gala – which supports the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute – brings together hundreds of celebrities to raise money for the department’s annual fashion exhibition. The 2025 Met Gala is being held on Monday, May 5.

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This year’s theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which will “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy,” according to Vogue. The theme is inspired by guest curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

The dress code for 2025 is “tailored for you,” which is a nod to the exhibition’s focus on menswear. It marks the first time the exhibition has adopted a menswear-focused dress code since 2003’s “Men in Skirts.”

Ahead of the event, Swifties are wondering whether Swift will attend this year’s Met Gala, especially now that she has down time after concluding her record-breaking Eras Tour in December. Here’s everything know so far.

Will Taylor Swift Be At The 2025 Met Gala?

Taylor Swift nor the Met Gala have confirmed whether the singer will be attending the 2025 Met Gala. Fans will have to tune into the red carpet coverage this evening to find out whether Swift will be there.

The official red carpet coverage will begin 6 p.m., although guests will start arriving around 4:30 p.m. You can watch the Met Gala red carpet live across Vogue’s digital platforms, including its YouTube channel, and on E!.

Kelce was recently spotted shooting a commercial in New York City on May 2 – a few days before the Met Gala – which also fueled speculation that he might accompany her to the event.

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When Was The Last Time Taylor Swift Attended The Met Gala?

Taylor Swift attended the Met Gala every year from 2008 to 2016. Her last appearance on the red carpet was almost a decade ago in 2016. Meanwhile, her NFL star beau Kelce has never been a guest.

The 1989 singer wore a metallic Louis Vuitton dress paired with boots. Her hair was styled in a bleach-blonde bob (also known as her “Bleachella” era). In 2016, the Met Gala celebrated the theme “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.”

What Have Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Been Up To Recently?

Swift and Kelce have kept a low-profile since the Chief’s Super Bowl LIX appearance in February. The singer was absent from iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where she received the Tour of the Century award. Instead, she pre-recorded her acceptance speech.

“Thank you so much to iHeart, and thank you so much mainly to the fans. Tour of the Century. I really can’t tell you how much this means to me because I accept this on behalf of all my tour mates, all my fellow performers, my band, everyone who toured with us, our crew,” she said in the video.

She continued, “People often say that the greatest challenges in life end up being something you’re so proud of, or end up being the most gratifying feeling in the end if you can rise to the occasion, and this tour was absolutely the most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my life.” The singer concluded, “I appreciate this more than you know, thank you so much for honoring this tour.”

According to a report from Us Weekly last month, one source told the site that Kelce and Swift intend to be more private moving forward.

“Taylor and Travis have learned that so much attention on their relationship is not the best thing,” the source said. “Travis wants to take [a breather] from the public eye. He was working too much last year, and he didn’t play as well as he wanted. He wants to have a good season [later this year] and not have the focus be on his relationship with Taylor.”

Swift was likely unable to attend the Met Gala in previous years due to the Eras Tour. She played 149 shows across six continents in the career-spanning concert. The tour grossed $2 billion in ticket sales, which is twice as much as any other tour in history, according to The New York Times.

We’ll keep you updated if Swift attends the 2025 Met Gala tonight.