Boateng's star turn at the Met Gala challenges Trump reign in style

When Ozwald Boateng takes his place of honour at tomorrow night's Met Gala in New York, it will be as Britain's most famous living tailor - and as a uniquely stylish challenge to the Maga movement's take on what makes America great.

- Stephen Armstrong

Boateng, the son of Ghanaian immigrants, wears and cuts exquisite clothes that recall the Black dandyism on show in the Met’s landmark new exhibition on Black style. “Dandyism can seem frivolous,” the show's curator, Monica L Miller, wrote recently in Vogue. “But it often poses a challenge to social and cultural hierarchies.”

Context is everything. The exhibition opens as Donald Trump’s second presidential term passes the 100-day mark. It was conceived before his re-election, but Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s decision to take it as the theme for the most glamorous red carpet of the year is hard to misinterpret.