'Pandering to black people': Megyn Kelly has a meltdown over Met Gala’s ‘dandyism’ tribute

Megyn Kelly launched into a furious tirade against the 2025 Met Gala, slamming the prestigious fashion event as a “wannabe version of its old self” and accusing organisers of pandering to Black Americans with an “incomprehensible” theme.Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, the former Fox News anchor took aim at the gala’s theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which celebrated Black dandyism and its influence on fashion. Kelly ridiculed the concept as elitist and politically driven, dismissing it as “leftist academic, gobbledygook, nonsensical talk.”“Once the apex of high fashion culture and A-list celebrity, the gala now looks more like a sad sack D-list past-its-prime wannabe version of its old self,” she said.

“It’s closer to today’s Nerd Prom White House Correspondents Dinner than the centre of the celeb and beauty universe as it used to be.”Kelly openly mocked the theme’s intellectual basis, referencing Monica Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, which inspired the Met exhibit. “So far we have dandyism, intersection and diasporic identity,” Kelly said. “We’re batting a thousand on the scale of leftist code language that will make liberals sound smarter and feel superior.”

She went on to quote Miller’s description of Black dandyism, before blasting it as purposefully obtuse: “The whole point is to lose you and sound smarter than you by saying words that are totally empty and meaningless,” she said.Kelly accused the event of virtue-signalling, saying the gala’s true intent was to “pander to Black people because we love Black people and that makes us good people.” She described the night as “basically Black Lives Matter at the Met,” calling it “a parade of Black Americans, leftists in their dandy style.”“Near as I can figure,” she added, “it appears to mean over-the-top black and white with weird shapes and vaginas showing.”The annual Met Gala, co-chaired this year by stars like Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams and Lewis Hamilton, was otherwise hailed by fashion critics for celebrating the elegance and defiance of Black style throughout history. But Kelly dismissed the celebration entirely, describing it as a self-congratulatory gathering of elites.“You’re not meant to understand this,” she concluded. “You dumbasses. You have to go to Harvard to understand what these people are saying, how they speak and how they code talk.”The Met Gala reportedly raised $31 million this year.