The 2025 Serpentine Summer Party rolled into Kensington Gardens last night, bringing together luminaries from the world’s of art, cinema, architecture, sport, media and fashion to celebrate the opening of the gallery’s annual Pavilion.

Hosted this year by actor Cate Blanchett, alongside members of the Serpentine team, including CEO Bettina Korek, artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist, and chairman of the board of trustees Michael R. Bloomberg, the event acts not only as a glamorous get together but also as a crucial fundraiser for the gallery, allowing it to keep its exhibitions open to the public for free.

As ever, the star of the show was the Serpentine Pavilion, which this year celerbates its 25th annversary and, for 2025, has been designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and named A Capsule in Time. Elsewhere, guests were also treated to viewings of Giuseppe Panone’s exhibition, Thoughts in the Roots, at Serpentine South and let loose in the new Play Pavilion, designed by Sir Peter Cook in partnership with the Lego Group.

Attendees, who this year included Burberry’s Daniel Lee, Dina Asher-Smith, Alicia Vikander, Lily Allen, Rebel Wilson and Georgia May Jagger, were also treated to musical performances by Carolina Polachek and GALLiVANTER, and Art Selfie 2, an AI-powered experience created by Google which allows guests to place themselves into iconic artworks and cultural moments.

“Supporting our cultural institutions and their power to illuminate the world at large and our place within it is of paramount importance,” said Cate Blanchett. “I’m honoured to co-chair the Serpentine party and its summer festivities where so many creative forms — architecture, performance, music, science and digital narratives — intersect. To come together around a pavilion created by Marina Tabassum, whose socially driven work particularly in her home country of Bangladesh to meet the challenges faced by Rohingya refugees, is an inspirational opportunity.”

Step inside the 2025 Serpentine Summer Party below…

Lily Allen in 16Arlington

Alicia Vikander and Minnie Driver

Rebel Wilson in Temperley London

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Joanne Froggatt

Dina Asher-Smith, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Sheila Atim

Erin O'Connor in Jacquemus

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Storm Saulter

Jessica Gunning

La Roux, Connor Ives and Caroline Polachek

David Koma and Georgia May Jagger

Harrison Osterfield

Jourdan Dunn

Ozwald Boateng

Daniel Lee

Munroe Bergdorf in Patrick McDowell x Circ and Tasaki Jewellery with Patrick McDowell

Edward Enninful

Beth Ditto and Charles Jeffrey

Chet Lo and Harris Reed

Bianca Jagger and Marina Tabassum

Amelia Spencer and Eliza Spencer

Rejina Pyo

Arabell Boyce and Celia Imrie in Temperley London

Lily McMenamy

Charlotte Olympia

Rebecca Vallance, Kitty Spencer, and Kelly Osbourne