Amy Sherald attended the 2025 Met Gala dressed as the subject of her own award-winning painting, *Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)* (2014). The work, which won the Outwin Boochever Prize at the National Portrait Gallery and appeared on a *New Yorker* cover, depicts a young girl holding an oversized teacup. Sherald collaborated with designer Thom Browne to recreate the painting's look, including a red fascinator, as part of the gala's theme “Fashion Is Art,” which also aligns with the Costume Institute's exhibition “Costume Art.” Sherald served on the gala's committee alongside artists Anna Weyant and Tschabalala Self.
The moment matters because it bridges Sherald's celebrated portraiture with high-fashion spectacle, reinforcing the growing crossover between contemporary art and the fashion world. By embodying her own painting, Sherald not only promoted her traveling survey opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on May 15 but also asserted the agency of artists in shaping how their work is interpreted in popular culture. The collaboration with a major designer like Thom Browne further elevates the visibility of living Black women artists in elite cultural institutions.