Just a 10-minute walk from the flashing cameras and swarms of crowds outside the Met Gala last night, a very different sort of gala was taking place at the Central Park Boathouse. It was the inaugural iBrain Gala, a runway show dedicated to celebrating the nonverbal and physically disabled students who attend the iBrain school…
There were slicked-down curls, dramatic swoops and sculpted waves that contrasted with the structured, tailored clothes of the evening. Many of the hair styles appeared to be nods to Josephine Baker, the American-born French singer whose hair was typically gelled down into face-framing kiss curls. In an interview on the Met Gala carpet, Quinta Brunson,…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In Venice, beauty and decay have always flowed side by side, borne on waters that are as treacherous as they are alluring. The lagoon makes itself felt as a living presence, through the briny smell…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. The monster was dirty. Some would call it ugly. Almost everyone said, “Make it go away.” But for Julie Buckner, it was love. Smack in the center of her kitchen was a built-in brick grill…
One night, $31 million, hundreds of celebrities and your six favorite looks. On Monday, stars including Madonna and Rihanna walked down the blue carpet to celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute show “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” Every year we round up photos from the Met Gala. But this year we gave readers the…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. The earliest dining appliance was a pair of cupped hands. Then came folded leaves; then vessels and utensils shaped from stone, earth and metal. Today, the style, substance and uses of tableware have proliferated beyond…
This year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s signature gala welcomed a host of top hats, pinstripes and impeccable suiting (and a fashionably late, pregnant Rihanna) in celebration of the Costume Institute’s new exhibition about the history of Black dandy fashion. But it’s the after-parties where politicians, athletes, celebrities and influencers, many of whom did not…
The Met Gala has outdone itself, even before it’s begun. The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the flashy fashion extravaganza that highlights the city’s social scene every May — raised a record $31 million this year, museum officials announced on Monday, the biggest gross in the event’s 77-year history. The money…
So much is made of the fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit — otherwise known as the Met Gala — that it can be easy to forget the event is about more than clothes. It’s also a fund-raiser for the museum, which this year collected more money than ever since the…
Rihanna loves a show — a splashy late arrival, a “personal news” tease. The pop star arrived at the Met Gala on Rihanna time, around 10 p.m. She looked visibly pregnant. The night was of course about her partner, ASAP Rocky, who was a co-chair of the gala and arrived earlier in the evening, wearing…
