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“It’s Really Fucking Turnt”: Five Minutes With Teyana Taylor at Her Secret Burlesque Show
May 8, 2024
“It’s actually really fucking turnt,” said the singer and actor, who kiki’d with Interview on the dance floor at her secret pre-Met Gala party.
ROMANCE
Usher Shows Us How He Preps for Fashion’s Super Bowl
May 7, 2024
The R&B icon sat down for an interview with our senior editor, who had a few questions about fandom, fashion, and life as a sex symbol.
bff
Paloma Elsesser and Alexia Elkaim Aren’t Dinner Party Bitches
May 13, 2022
The supermodel and Miaou founder reflect on 15 years of friendship and the challenge that their size inclusive collection poses to the industry.
culture
Life Lessons from Anna Wintour
May 12, 2022
The “Vogue” editor tells us why she was fired from her first job in American fashion.
FASHION
A Glimpse at Bella Hadid’s Met Gala Moment, Courtesy of Her Boyfriend Marc
May 4, 2022
The supermodel offers us an intimate look inside her dressing room.
SPIRAL
Tore, Flop, Ate, Booger: A Review of the Met Gala
May 3, 2022
Our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg and senior editor Taylore Scarabelli review the looks from the Gilded Glamour-themed 2022 Met Gala.
stars!
Inside the Mark Hotel with Bella, Rosalía, and Jack Harlow
May 3, 2022
Take a peek at some exclusive pre-Gala Polaroids from the Mark Hotel lobby.
fashion!
Phoebe Bridgers Prepped for Her First Met Gala With Stress Naps and Harry Styles
May 3, 2022
The musician called us for a chat about pre-Gala jitters, falling down in public, and her love of a good bathroom selfie.
the tea
The Met Gala Afters With Charles Gross—Let’s Talk About It
May 3, 2022
We caught up with our favorite TikTokker for a quick chat about this year’s red carpet offerings and party favors.
VOICE NOTES
Anderson .Paak Brought Chocolate Mushrooms and BDE to the Met Gala
May 3, 2022
We caught up with the musician before his big night out with Gucci.
q&a
Keke Palmer on Her New Short Story Collection and Hosting the Met Gala
November 10, 2021
To mark the release of her new short story collection, Palmer tells us about becoming a writer, hosting the Met Gala, and bingeing “You.”
in conversation
Lourdes Leon Is Trying Not to Get Too Caught Up
October 14, 2021
After years of ducking the spotlight, Madonna’s oldest daughter tells her family friend Debi Mazar that she’s finally figuring out who she wants to be.
museum visit
Inside the Met’s Patchwork-Style Survey of American Fashion
September 24, 2021
The Met’s new exhibition establishes a vocabulary for American design’s biggest moments.
talk hole
Talk Hole: American Hole
September 17, 2021
Red, white, and hole.
Mel Ottenberg and an Anonymous Fashion Luminary Fall Into a Met Gala Scroll Hole
September 16, 2021
“They may hate, but we love.”
we went there
Transcending Transience: This Year’s Met Costume Institute Exhibit Is Both of Its Time and Entirely Outside It
November 12, 2020
“About Time: Fashion and Duration” brings a new, 2020-inflected meaning to “everything old is new again.”
The New ‘Westworld’ Star Lena Waithe Isn’t Afraid of Robots, Or Much of Anything
June 14, 2019
Ahead of her “Westworld” debut, Waithe talks sex robots, Twitter bots, and other realities of our dystopian present.
Kim Kardashian, Joe Jonas, and Anna Delvey’s Farewell: This Week’s NYC Celeb News Map
May 10, 2019
Tracking the stars, and other famous-ish things, making news across New York City the week of May 5 — from Kim Kardashian’s party at Up&Down to Anna Delvey’s sad day in court.
In Praise of the Soundtrack of the Met’s Camp Exhibit
May 9, 2019
An ode to the most underrated aspect of the Met’s new exhibit, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” a cacophony of typewriting and Judy Garland.
INTO: Dee Hilfiger’s Drop Dead Gorgeous Moment at the Met Gala
May 8, 2019
While she didn’t sport a homemade Mount Rushmore headpiece, Hilfiger’s red-and-white fringed bolero were worn with all-American elan.