“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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CAPRI, Italy — In a location that requires no filter, it was astonishing how many such tools were being used on a springlike April afternoon. The occasion? A fresh start for Emilio Pucci, the Florentine label founded by Marchese Emilio Pucci in 1947, and the first offerings under its new artistic director, Camille Miceli. About…
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Jamie McCarthyGetty Images The Met Gala is an illustrious evening, made for the express purpose of showing off. The Oscars or Grammys can claim to be about uplifting their individual art forms, but the Met Gala knows its purpose in the realm of star-studded events: This is a night about being seen—and not just seen…
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If you think the enjoyment of green tea is a relatively new pursuit in the United States, a Zoom talk for the Culinary Historians of New York will set you straight. Robert Hellyer, an associate professor of history at Wake Forest University and the author of “Green Tea with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled…
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Dungeness crab season is shorter and more delicate than it used to be — this past year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed its start in an effort to protect whales moving through the area. The previous year, a toxic algal bloom, likely caused by warming and acidifying waters, shut down crab fisheries…
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A cafe and market has opened at Beach Green Dunes II, an affordable housing development in Edgemere, Queens, near Far Rockaway. With a mission to provide modestly priced food to the neighborhood, the cafe sells whole roast chickens and prepared items, $4 to $21, for delivery, to eat in or take away. There is a…
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