Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly delivered a scathing critique of this year’s “woke” Met Gala in New York City, calling out Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour for what she described as “hyper-pandering.”
The 2025 Met Gala, themed “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” was reportedly inspired by Monica L. Miller’s book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” marking the first time the prestigious fashion event has been entirely dedicated to race.
“Anna Wintour’s so white and her partner who’s like organizing this whole thing with her, also a white guy,” Kelly pointed out on her show. “They realized that they would take a hit if they were to plan this, so they brought in – it very much feels like black tokenism to me – a focus group of black fashion elites.”
Kelly suggested Wintour’s motivation was to deflect criticism about the event’s elitism and excess, with tickets reportedly costing over $70,000.
“Now they’ve decided to try to get over this reputation of Anna Wintour being America’s biggest snob, and this thing being the most over-the-top, elitist, evil event by pandering to blacks,” she stated.
The former Fox News host also took aim at the theme itself, describing it as “leftist academic gobbledygook” that no one really understands. She blasted the concept as nonsense; empty words designed to make liberals “sound smarter and feel superior.”
Kelly’s criticism extended to the evening’s fashion choices, which she characterized as “basically Black Lives Matter at the Met.” She singled out several celebrities for ridicule, including an attendee with Rosa Parks imagery on her dresses crotch, Halle Berry’s revealing outfit, and former Vice President Kamala Harris’s appearance at the event.
Particularly troubling to Kelly were reports that Wintour had banned anyone associated with President Donald Trump or conservatives from attending—despite Trump and former First Lady Melania having regularly attended in previous years, including the night Trump proposed to her in 2004. The president’s allies, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, were also reportedly denied invitations.
“This thing is so over-the-top with its privilege, its wealth, and its totally out-of-touch people who are rubbing elbows with one another,” Kelly concluded, declaring that “our days of pandering are done, and so, very clearly, are the days of the Met Gala.”
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This is the single best thing you will hear today. This is a little clip of the @megynkelly coverage of the Met Gala.
This right here is how you do counter culture.
Just enough mocking with a healthy side of merciless. pic.twitter.com/okHN18ZQLY
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 6, 2025
Wintour has defended this year’s theme, insisting that the Gala “was never about politics” but rather about “self-determination, beauty, creativity and holding up a lens to history.”