The plush blue lounge upstairs at the Four Seasons restaurant has started holding cabaret performances on occasional Friday evenings. What is uncommon about the programs is that many of the performers are current or former kitchen and dining room employees of the restaurant. In April, Rafa Campos Salles, a former reservationist, performed Poulenc and a…
Kwame Onwuachi of Kith and Kin, a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C., was named Rising Star Chef on Monday at the James Beard Foundation’s annual awards ceremony in Chicago. Mr. Onwuachi’s recent memoir, “Notes From a Young Black Chef,” details his childhood in the Bronx and Nigeria, as well as the closing of his highly…
Image Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen.CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times Hailee Steinfeld.CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times So did Tiffany Haddish. “When I was broke I used to buy knockoff Michael Kors handbags,” she said. “Now I am here several years later wearing Michael Kors for me. Designed for me!” Thank you,…
At this year’s Camp-themed Met Gala, really anything goes. For Michael Kors, that meant topping every single look with a Stephen Jones hat. “When we heard the theme, we knew we would want to incorporate some fabulous hats and headdresses to give the looks that wink of exaggeration and glamour,” Kors told ELLE. “The intricacies…
A rose is a rose is a rose — and sometimes it is also Jourdan Dunn. Ms. Dunn, a model, arrived at the Met Gala in a 30-pound dress made of large plastic petals, designed by Zac Posen and General Electric Additive and built by Protolabs. Each petal weighs about a pound and appears, on…
The 2019 Oscars first saw the rise of pink. Now, two months later, the Met Gala has also made the color the unofficial theme of the night, with celebrities arriving on the millennial pink carpet for “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” From pantsuits to pleats and ruffles to ruching, here are the pinkest, campiest dresses from…
Neilson BarnardGetty Images Lady Gaga’s entrance into the 2019 Met Gala was an extended high-fashion burleque performance in which she dramatically disrobed to reveal four different lewks in under a minute and that noise you heard is the ghost of Susan Sontag screaming “YAAAAAAAS GAGA!” John ShearerGetty Images First look: Did someone say “camp”? I…
Kacey Musgraves made her Met Gala red carpet debut in dramatic fashion. The singer followed this year’s camp theme and looks incredible in a pink Moschino Barbie dress complete with flowing blond hair. Getty Images Getty Images This is just one of the major red carpets Kacey has walked in 2019. In February, the singer…
When an Aeroflot jet came to a fiery emergency landing in Moscow over the weekend, videos of the accident were posted across social media, revealing that in the midst of the chaos some travelers apparently used precious moments to grab their carry-on bags. A radio station, Kommersant FM, reported that some passengers slowed evacuation of…
“I’m never going to take it off,” Celine Dion said. Mugging for a reporter’s iPhone camera with a voice you might associate with Dalmatian coats and Cruella De Vil, she repeated herself. “I’m never going to take it off,” she said, head lowered, tone rising. “It’s mine! All mine!” The subject wasn’t what she was…