Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, reportedly made a series of unprecedented demands to appear on the cover of Vogue’s September edition back in 2022, which led to tensions with British Vogue editor Edward Enninful and the US Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Markle sought full creative control over the shoot, including the selection of photographer…
Edward Enninful is launching a new ‘magazine and platform’ that is set to compete with former boss – and rumoured rival – Anna Wintour‘s Vogue. British-Ghanaian Enninful, 53, was the first male and first black editor-in-chief of British Vogue and, for a time, was widely considered to be the protégé who would succeed Wintour. Wintour, 75,…
Black dandyism is this year’s theme at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (Met) Costume Institute exhibition and its eponymous gala. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the title of this exhibition, revolves around a style that combines the display of creative, well-tailored menswear with the attitude of the wearer. The so-called Super Bowl of fashion, held the…
Tonight’s Met Gala will focus on the aesthetic and political roots of Black dandyism fashion through the 2025 theme: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The gala, often deemed fashion’s biggest night, serves as a fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But it serves as a deeper event for some: actor and…
Inflation has pushed up the price of many things, but not of tickets to the 2025 Met Gala. The A-list event, held annually on the first Monday in May to benefit The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, draws celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, business and other domains in…
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about New York Fashion Week‘s tricky logistics and high show production costs. This past week, a new venture, KFN, unveiled a solution to reimagine the shows to become beneficial to designers by revenue-generating auxiliary events for consumers. The group has many areas of Manhattan on its target…
For the last decade, no matter the theme — flamboyant “Camp,” “Heavenly Bodies,” “Manus x Machina” — many ladies at the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Costume Institute Ball (aka the Met Gala) have displayed more skin than fabric. Emily Ratajkowski, Janelle Monae, Kim Kardashian, Lily James, Zoe Kravitz, Amanda Seyfried, Kendall Jenner, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez…
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The countdown is on for the Met Gala — with guests toning up, Upper East Side hotels filling up and fans gearing up to watch Monday night’s arrivals. As messengers shuttle designer freebies to celebrities and florists burn the midnight oil to create welcome-to-the-city bouquets, the uninvited can still be part of the action not…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 01: (L-R) Rihanna and A$AP Rocky attend The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating “Karl … More Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Getty Images In a time when diversity is under fire,…