Naima Green: I’m recovering from surgery, so when [Sable and I were] planning this dinner party, we really thought about the people we could be at ease with — folks I wouldn’t feel guilty sitting down around. These are homies we’ve known for eight to 10 years, but this was the first time the six…
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The attendees: Freddie Ross Jr., a.k.a. Big Freedia, 44, was joined by his boyfriend, the visual artist Devon Hurst, 36; his manager, Reid Martin, 36; the dancer Tootie, 31, whom he calls “my daughter”; the singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball, 32; the producer Adam J. Pigott, a.k.a. BlaqNmilD, age withheld; the interior designer and artist Bradley…
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The attendees: Tomo Koizumi, 34, was joined by the publicist and consultant Ayako Maruyama, 38; the photographer Packychong Song, 36; the model Keishan, 25; and the drag queens Maxim, 31, Babie-No-Bitch, 47, Izumi Sexy, 39, and Takanenohana, 39. The food: Koizumi mostly follows a gluten-free diet and usually bakes bread with rice flour when guests…
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Claire Foy: We formed a really strong bond [working on the movie “Women Talking,” out this month]. It felt like so little time had passed since the shoot [in summer 2021], and the film went down really well [at its New York Film Festival premiere in October], so it was a wonderful, cyclical thing to…
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LOS ANGELES — In 2014, Alex Erdmann, known as “2Tone,” and Chris Printup, known as “Spanto,” decided they wanted to host a party. Something dressy but raucous, something for their friends. “My thought was, there’s just a lot of women in Los Angeles that have dresses that they don’t get to wear,” said Mr. Erdmann,…
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Growing up in the ’90s with a broken family in Brighton, England, I would watch “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) religiously: All I wanted to do as a kid was dress up as an old woman. Twenty-eight years after the film came out, I paid homage to Robin Williams’s character by transforming into her to attend Balenciaga’s…
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The attendees: The Valentino creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, 55, was joined by his wife, Simona Caggia, and their daughters, Benedetta and Stella, ages withheld; the food entrepreneur Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, 23, and his wife, the actor Nicola Peltz Beckham, 27; the actors Florence Pugh, 26, Ashley Park, 31, and Jenna Ortega, 20; the actor and…
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Of the many rituals that the past several years have upended, the dinner party seems, at first glance, to be the most minor. And yet there are few traditions that have been as profoundly affected. Not just by Covid-19, either — the idea of sitting down with other people, some of them strangers to you,…
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In Coral Bracho’s poem, translated by Forrest Gander from the Spanish, we are witnesses to the thoughts of the poet’s mother, who died from complications of Alzheimer’s. The mother vividly depicts the terror of losing yourself within a formerly capable and operating mind and body. Initially, she answers her own questions rapidly with both confusion…
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