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This Year’s Met Gala Raises the Most Money in Its History
The Met’s annual fashion party has become a fund-raising juggernaut, but the lavish event comes with a price tag of its own. How much bang does it get for its buck?
The Tricky Politics of This Year’s Met Gala
The party and its related exhibition, about Black male style, land in a moment when anything to do with race and diversity is under added scrutiny.
The Art of the Kentucky Derby Hat
When discussing the history of women’s hats in the United States, the designer and author Steven Stolman was reminded of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” in which Joanne wryly asks, “Does anyone still wear a hat?” Hats come and go in women’s fashion ...
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
Seen in a soft light, Ocean Vuong’s life looks like a modern American fairy tale. In 1990, he and his mother came to this country as refugees from Vietnam. They landed in small-town Connecticut and began muddling their way through an existence ...
Our Idea of Happiness Has Gotten Shallow. Here’s How to Deepen It.
“Getting what you want in life — that’s happiness, bro,” Saxon Ratliff tells his younger brother in the latest season of “The White Lotus” on HBO. Helpfully, he lists his essentials: sex, money, freedom, respect (in that order). A jacked dude-bro ...
