Serena Williams’ look at the 2025 Met Gala was a total smash.
The tennis superstar, 43, celebrated Fashion’s Biggest Night wearing a light green gown with a puffy train for the “Tailored for You” theme, which was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday, May 6.
Williams also donned massive Fred Leighton diamond earrings with a matching hair brooch, bracelet and rings. She arrived for the glitzy occasion with former British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
Williams attended a dinner for the Met Gala committee at Anna Wintour‘s home on Sunday, May 4, in a white, one-shoulder gown with a feather neckline.
“The highlight of my night, obviously, was Rihanna,” she told followers on social media before heading to bed early. “It’s no secret that I love her,” Williams said. “She’s so gorgeous — literally like the most gorgeous. I’m obsessed with her. And also, Pharrell telling me, ‘Stop caring what people say.’”
Williams has been attending the Met Gala for decades, even serving as the event’s cochair for the event’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion” theme in 2019 alongside Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, Alessandro Michele and Anna Wintour.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion glittered in gold at the 2024 Met Gala in a custom-made Balenciaga creation to honor the “Garden of Time” theme.
In 2023, Williams used the Met Gala to unveil a baby bump. Walking the carpet in a black Gucci gown, she and husband Alexis Ohanian, whom she married in 2017, were expecting their second child together. The couple welcomed daughter Adira in August 2023, roughly 3 months after the Met Gala.
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“Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala,” Williams wrote via Instagram after the event.
Williams and Ohanian also share daughter Olympia, who was born in September 2017.
The tennis star played her last professional match at the 2022 US Open, a third round loss to Ajla Tomljanović. Her swan song came after Williams published an essay in Vogue in August 2022 explaining she’d be retiring from tennis to focus on her family.
“I’ve been reluctant to admit that I have to move on from playing tennis,” Williams wrote. “It’s like a taboo topic. It comes up, and I start to cry. I think the only person I’ve really gone there with is my therapist.”
She added, “I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
