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After the Met Gala, the Parties Lasted All Night
One reason the Met Gala after-parties are nearly as famous as the Met Gala itself has to do with an incident that took place 10 years ago at the Standard Hotel in the West Village of Manhattan. On that night, Beyoncé was a star of the red carpet at ...
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Is the Met Gala Protest-Proof?
Despite a rich, class-based theme and calls to disrupt the fashion extravaganza of the year, politics proved no match for the power of the spectacle.
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Don’t Be Fooled by A.I. Katy Perry Didn’t Attend the Met.
Images of the pop star were convincing enough to trick plenty of people. on social media, including Ms. Perry’s own mother.
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Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can’t You?
Even before he really knew what it meant, Allen Wong wanted to be rich. As a kid, he didn’t yet equate the word with “luxury” or “status” or “expensive things.” He didn’t think wealth would bring him 85-inch televisions and Jacuzzis, a one-of-a-kind ...
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Is the Met Gala Protest-Proof?
Despite a rich, class-based theme and calls to disrupt the fashion extravaganza of the year, politics proved no match for the power of the spectacle.
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20 Unforgettable Looks at the Met Gala
By Monday morning, the answer to one of the biggest questions looming over the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had emerged. Would members of the union representing employees of Vogue and other Condé Nast publications proceed ...
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Cocktail Hour at the Met Gala: What Comes After the Carpet
Up the carpeted stairs, past the tuxedoed photographers, Anna Wintour stood at the top of the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit. “Your royal highnesses,” Baz Luhrmann, the Australian film director, said as he ...
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Staten Island’s Roller Rink Celebrated Its Last Dance
Before 9 p.m. on Saturday, crowds of people lined up in a parking lot opposite a Sonic Drive-In, making their way into a large white building in the suburban neighborhood of Tottenville, Staten Island. It was a chilly May evening, but emotions ran ...
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2024 Met Gala: Red Carpet Roundup
See the looks from fashion’s biggest night.
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The Met Gala’s Strange but Fitting Literary Inspiration
In 1962, J.G. Ballard published “The Garden of Time,” a short story about aristocrats overrun by “an immense rabble.” Now it’s the dress-code theme for the year’s most lavish ball.