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 …
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Talking Black Excellence Over Cocktails Inside the Met Gala
The Met Gala’s themes can sometimes be vague, but this year, the Costume Institute benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art got far more specific. The night was a celebration of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” a new exhibition focusing on the …
The Tricky Politics of This Year’s Met Gala
The party and its related exhibition, about Black male style, land in a moment when anything to do with race and diversity is under added scrutiny.
Suit Accuses the Fashion Designer Riccardo Tisci of Sexual Assault
The former creative director of Givenchy and Burberry has denied the allegations that he drugged and assaulted a man in New York last June.
What Does This Restaurateur, Raconteur and Provocateur Actually Regret?
Keith McNally’s new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything,” begins at the lowest point of his life, the moment he tried to end it. In 2018, nearly two years after a pair of strokes ravaged his body and wrecked his marriage, he locked his bedroom door …
A New York Summer Wedding Has New Appeal
More couples are planning their nuptials in the city during July, August and early September, appreciating the ease and economic value of having a local wedding.
Black Dandyism in the Spotlight: 7 Pieces of Fashion History
In the glare of camera flashes on the first Monday in May, it’s easy to forget that the Met Gala isn’t just an expensive-looking celebrity parade: It’s also the opening celebration for a museum show. This year, the party will inaugurate “Superfine …
A Fitness Fad. With Guns.
A slurry of snow and sleet was battering the Nevada Firearms Academy and Range, a rugged expanse of dry soil and sagebrush about 25 miles outside downtown Reno. It’s rarely so cold in this part of the high desert basin — hovering in the high 30s just …
A Coming-of-Age Party in Los Angeles That Traveled Back in Time
Just east of Downtown Los Angeles, a stylish young crowd lined up on East Olympic Boulevard in Boyle Heights on Saturday night, bathed in the pink glow of the Don Quixote banquet hall. Inside, Anita Herrera, a Los Angeles native who now lives and …
A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away.
Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics and then retold in movies and other modern media, archaeologists have …