Simone Biles Is a Showgirl

It may be useful, when trying to comprehend the work that went into the gymnast Simone Biles’s Met Gala dress — a showgirl-inspired satin gown with crystal embroidery that mimics feathers — to know the numbers. The gown was made by Area, a New York label designed by Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk, who said…

Ella Emhoff Is All About Comfort

Not very many Met Gala guests would wear their outfits again, in the real world, outside of fashion fantasyland. It’s a sign of how peacocky the annual event has become. But Ella Emhoff would. Her top priority walking on the Met Museum carpet was comfort. She knew it was going to be a long night,…

Where Pad Thai Is Just the Beginning

Hong Thaimee, the Thai chef who had the restaurant Ngam in the East Village and pop-ups elsewhere, has now established herself in Greenwich Village with a kitchen for takeaway and deliveries, and a restaurant. Pad Thaimee, serving pad thai, the dish for which she is best known, and a version made with zucchini noodles, was…

All the Looks From the 2021 Met Gala

Mike CoppolaGetty Images Fashion’s biggest night is here—even if it was delayed from May to September due to COVID-19. That’s right, folks: the Met Gala’s red carpet has officially begun. Although the crowd might be smaller than past years due to the pandemic, the A-listers in attendance went all out for the night’s “In America:…

Chablis, From the 2019 Vintage Perspective

Years ago, a friend who loved white Burgundy said to me, “Everybody loves Chablis, but it’s nobody’s favorite.” I knew exactly what he meant. Chablis has a special place in the hearts of white Burgundy lovers, but it’s rarely as revered as the more exalted whites of the Côte de Beaune, like Meursault les Perrières…