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It’s the first Monday in May, when fashion’s finest traditionally come together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met gala. Tonight is an exception, with the gala postponed as much of the world stays home amid the current pandemic. So instead of devising new jaw-dropping looks, hair and makeup artists everywhere are recalling … Read more

The Nickel Boys, a spare yet harrowing novel by Colson Whitehead that described the abuse of young boys at a Florida boarding school for delinquent youth during the Jim Crow era, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The two runners-up, announced online on Monday, were The Dutch House by Ann Padgett and The … Read more

To commemorate a very different first Monday in May this year, Vogue asked some of our favorite stars to create a playlist featuring timeless songs inspired by the theme of this year’s Met gala and the upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, “About Time: Fashion and Duration.” Janelle Monáe, who graced the red carpet in a Christian … Read more

Getting on the guest list at the Met gala is notoriously difficult, and yet Naomi Campbell has received multiple invitations over the past 30 years. A fashion fixture since the late ’80s, the 49-year-old supermodel brings glamour wherever she goes, and her trips to the Met are particularly special. She was the first to wear … Read more

The Met Gala is my personal X Games. It’s natural Adderall. No matter how fancy a hotshot you are, there’s somebody in the room who stuns you to silence (and I’m at the bottom of the totem pole, so imagine my stupor). Here are a few of my favorite moments, though there are far too … Read more

The Met Gala has played host to countless fashion moments, but few have been as bold as Lil’ Kim’s turn on the museum stairs back in 1999. A power pink combination of a fur coat, bra top, and hot pants, her Versace look instantly made a splash and is remembered as one of the events … Read more

The Costume Institute’s annual Met Gala has always been a beacon of boundary-pushing style—and it extends above the neck to powerful effect. For men, makeup is increasingly becoming one of the most powerful tools for bold self-expression. Much like it has in popular culture, it’s gained momentum on the Met Gala red carpet as the … Read more

Many of my childhood memories involve flashes of very specific objects and items of clothing. I can remember the steering wheel of our first car, the floral reading chair in my old bedroom, my Dad’s nautical watch, and my mom’s white cotton nightgowns that she wore during the summertime at our house on Gull Lake … Read more

THE FORCE IS WITH HER: Audrey Marnay wears Queen Amidala’s Throne Room Costume, created for Natalie Portman, who plays the royal mother of Luke Skywalker. The embroidered corded-silk and faux-fur robe, with a row of electric lights at the hem, suggests a Chinese Imperial gown. Costume by Trisha Biggar.Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, April 1999 … Read more

To commemorate a very different first Monday in May this year, Vogue asked some of our favorite stars to create a playlist featuring timeless songs inspired by the theme of this year’s Met gala and the upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, “About Time: Fashion and Duration.” Sam Smith was due to attend their first Met gala … Read more