This is Emily Ratajkowski’s ninth Met Gala. She is basically a regular. Even so, attending the event remains a great “pressure,” said Ms. Ratajkowski, a model and writer. “I have worn things that I have not felt comfortable in, and I do feel that it shows,” she said. “Maybe it shows in the way that…
There is some evidence that Da’Vine Joy Randolph manifested this. “I’ve always wanted to go, and it has always meant so much to me,” said Ms. Randolph, who won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for “The Holdovers” in March. In 2022, she was so inspired by the Met Gala’s theme, “In America,” that…
In the week leading up to the Met Gala, tabloids volleyed predictions about Taylor Swift’s possible attendance: She would be there with her football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce! Actually, she wouldn’t! She might go but leave Mr. Kelce at home! On Monday night, fans finally got their answer. The party of the year would have…
Amanda Seyfried is anxious about the environment. “I feel a lot of guilt and shame, literally every day,” said Ms. Seyfried, who was calling from a film set in Yonkers, N.Y., on the Friday before the Met Gala. “If I’m going to go to the Met ball,” she said, “there has to be solar panels…
It was not exactly urgent to get the rug, but the larger question the rug had to answer was urgent enough. That’s why, on a bright afternoon at the end of March, Miranda July and I were driving toward Irvine, Calif., where she planned to meet a man about a listing on Facebook Marketplace. She…
While stars, celebrities and Anna Wintour ascended the steps at the Met Gala on Monday night, protesters began assembling on the streets just surrounding the museum. In Central Park, a small group of protesters, accompanied by an A.C.L.U. observer in a blue vest, gathered with cardboard signs reading “No Met Gala While Bombs Drop in…
Wayve, a London maker of artificial intelligence systems for autonomous vehicles, said on Tuesday that it had raised $1 billion, an eye-popping sum for a European start-up and an illustration of investor optimism about A.I.’s ability to reshape industries. SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate that backed Uber and other tech companies, was the lead investor, along…
Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography, which had two winners. FICTION A story about a mother and daughter set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va., after the Civil War. “Night Watch,” which was…
Early in their relationship, the fashion designer Christian Cowan gave the Grammy Award-winning singer Sam Smith a metal-plated rose dipped in silver. It was that display of affection that became an inspiration for their looks the Met Gala. “I wanted to speak to the theme, the night, the tone that Anna loves, but also to…
The last six weeks have seen the long-simmering feud between the Compton, Calif.,-born rapper Kendrick Lamar and the Canadian rapper Drake turn into a full-fledged beef, with confrontations delivered in the form of diss tracks. But the squabble didn’t boil over until April 30, when Mr. Lamar released “Euphoria,” a six-and-a-half minute dressing down of…
