TUCSON, Ariz. — In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the invertebrate keeper, Emma Califf, lifts up a rock in a plastic box. “This is one of our desert hairies,” she said, exposing a three-inch-long scorpion, its tail arced over its back. “The largest scorpion in North America.” This captive…
Dove Cameron in Iris van Herpen With structured tassels, intricate boning, and sheer panels, Dove Cameron’s Iris van Herpen number looks like it came from an alien planet. Which, to be clear, is a huge compliment.
Kim Kardashian in Jean-Louis and Cartier Kim took the theme of “Gilded Glamour” not so literally, so as to embody the Gilded Age, but rather shimmied into Marilyn Monroe’s original dress (yes, the very same) worn during the actress’s iconic rendition of “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” Kardashian only wore the dress for a few minutes,…
One night last fall, J Balvin, the reggaeton rapper, shared a photo of the back of his bare neck. Deep red imprints formed a kind of collar as if someone had tried to choke the Colombian superstar with scalding hot chains. In reality, Mr. Balvin had just come from his first Met Gala, at which…
When Christine Baranski’s character on “The Gilded Age” looks out her window at the mansion across the street, she sees the equivalent of a Trump casino. “She’s absolutely appalled by what money is going to do to her world,” Ms. Baranski said. “It was just wretched excess. But it was a glorious time that celebrated…
“I love gold,” Megan Thee Stallion said on Saturday night, sitting in a makeup chair somewhere in Memphis, getting ready for a festival performance — a good thing, too, considering that 48 hours later, in New York, the rapper would attend her second Met Gala drenched in the stuff. When she arrived at the Met…
Briefly, in the planning process, Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith discussed gender-swapping their looks for the Met Gala. “I was going to wear the tuxedo with tails, and he was going to wear a gown,” Ms. Turner-Smith said. “I’m not sure I could have pulled off your exact look,” Mr. Jackson said, referring to the…
May 2, 2022, 4:59 p.m. ET May 2, 2022, 4:59 p.m. ET A new biography of the Vogue editor Anna Wintour was written with details supplied by members of her circle.Credit…Calla Kessler for The New York Times When Anna Wintour, officially an honorary co-chair of the Met Gala, unofficially its prime mastermind, takes her customary…
Whenever I slice and sauté onions, I think of my mother. No, she did not make me cry, but her meticulous handling of a mundane kitchen task left a lasting impression, one that informs my own cooking. Slice the onions and monitor their progress in the skillet so the result is a bronzed, sweetly fragrant…
Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images Emma Chamberlain is back on the Met Gala red carpet for a second time tonight, reprising her role as Vogue’s on-camera interviewer. Perfectly adhering to the “Gilded Glamour” dress code, Chamberlain wears custom Louis Vuitton and a variety of stunning Cartier jewels. The French luxury jeweler used fashion’s most glamorous night as…