Bad Bunny Honors Puerto Rico With This Met Gala 2025 Detail
Bad Bunny attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Bad Bunny is paying tribute to his Puerto Rican roots at the 2025 Met Gala. This evening (May 5), the Puerto Rican superstar donned a traditional pava straw hat.
While many people are taking this year’s theme very literally with black-and-white outfits, Bad Bunny brought a new shade of color to the blue carpet. He wore a chocolate mini pava hat with a matching Prada suit and tiny shades. The straw hat is a reference to the jíbaro, or life in the countryside of Puerto Rico. Bad Bunny also wore a pava in press photos for his latest album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.
This isn’t the first time that Bad Bunny highlighted his Puerto Rican roots at the Met Gala. At last year’s event, he incorporated the Flor de Maga, the island’s national flower, as a detail in his John Galliano suit.
The 2025 Met Gala put a spotlight on Black styling and tailoring with the 2025 spring exhibition titled “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The exhibit draws inspiration from Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, and “feature garments, paintings, photographs, and more—all exploring the indelible style of Black men in the context of dandyism, from the 18th-century through present day.”
As for the night of the Met Gala itself, the dress code is “Tailored for You.” Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour will be joined by co-chairs Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams.