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📰 A Black Fashion Expert's Take on the 2025 Met Gala: It Could Have Been Better ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: If Pratt Institute fashion professor Adrienne Jones had to rate the 2025 Met Gala red carpet, she'd give it a solid seven out of 10. "After watching, it was kind of where I expected it to be," she told Fashionista the morning after fashion's biggest night. Why didn't she give it a higher score? The carpet could've used more Black designers, she says. The academic, who herself co-curated a fashion exhibit entitled "Black Dress II: Homage" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, elaborated: "I knew we were going to get the extreme tailored garments," she explains. "I expected to see a Thom Browne. I expected to see a Versace. But I was hoping that there would be a broader range of Black fashion designers, especially with the focus [of the Costume Institute exhibit] being on the Black male." Janelle Monáe in Thom Browne at ...