Anyone in fashion knows the importance of the first Monday in May—otherwise known as the night of the Met Gala. This year, the 2023 iteration—which is celebrating late designer Karl Lagerfeld with its upcoming exhibit, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”—prompted stars and designers alike to dress in honor of the German fashion icon. Many…
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Karl Lagerfeld, the German-born fashion designer who is the subject of this year’s Met Gala, liked to court controversy, his achievements on the runway often outshone by offensive blunders and tone-deaf remarks. His missteps could be monumental — in a literal sense. Consider the 28-foot-high “iceberg” that hovered imposingly over his fall 2010 ready-to-wear show.…
Like kids with lemonade stands, two restaurants are holding Saturday bake sales. In Manhattan, Eleven Madison Park’s executive pastry chef, Laura Cronin, has let loose with flaky vegan croissants: rich chocolate-sesame ($6), jammy strawberry rhubarb ($7) and classic ($5), plus coffee to go, all from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., first come, first-served, available until…
Follow our live coverage from the Met Gala 2023. Had Choupette deigned to attend the Met Gala, she would have joined many other immaculately groomed guests with elite pedigrees. But she might have been the only one to require a litter box. Choupette, the Birman cat once owned by Karl Lagerfeld, led a life of…
On another occasion, he elaborated, “You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.” Clearly, he went on to imply, fashion had never been meant for them. Mr. Lagerfeld was no fan of the #MeToo movement, either, inquiring in an explosive 2018…
There are few things fashion editors love more than a sitewide sale at one of our favorite brands. So it almost goes without saying that this week, ELLE staffers are paying close attention to the 30% off sitewide Alo Yoga sale happening now until May 5. It’s not just fashion insiders who love Alo Yoga.…
Lance Weiler is preparing his students at Columbia University for the unknown. “What I’m going to show you might disturb you,” he warned the class in January, at the beginning of his graduate course on digital storytelling. A filmmaker who made his reputation on the frontiers of entertainment technology by inventing a popular augmented reality…
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Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely kept to yourself at dinner; your unvoiced impression of your best friend’s new partner. Now imagine that someone could listen in. On Monday, scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, made another step in that direction. In a study published in the…