At Met’s Fashion Benefit, Stars Honor Two Designers
By ERIC WILSON
The gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, compared Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, whose work is separated by half a century.
The gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, compared Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, whose work is separated by half a century.
After working the cocktail room at the Met gala last night, I dropped into the Temple of Dendur to see if dinner guests were comfortable in their $20,000 seats, or whatever one costs these days.
Stealing the show at the Met Ball last night was a new and dynamic kind of power couple: the designer plus model/muse.
Pieces from the Prada archive can now be had outside of the Met's Costume Institute, too.
In this first installment, we spot Brit Cato, a fashion stylist, hoofing it across DeKalb and Carlton Avenues in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on a recent afternoon.
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The relationship between people and their homes is the subject of an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington.
Highlights from the fair, where pieces made of industrial waste contrasted with deep-cushioned sofas that provide infantile comfort.
An art professor and preservationist combined history and modernity in two traditional wooden structures.
In England, a modernist villa and a guest pavilion on a 23-acre estate.
Craig Claiborne’s weekly restaurant reviews, which first appeared 50 years ago this month, separated the best restaurants from the ones merely favored by the aristocracy.
In his new book, the veteran food writer Peter Kaminsky writes that by maximizing flavor, you can satisfy your food cravings with smaller portions.
La Silhouette is on the extremely short list of good French restaurants in walking distance of the Broadway theaters.
Wylie Dufresne, one of the most influential culinary minds on the planet, unveils dishes from the reinvented menu at his WD-50.
Inside the Sichuan restaurant in Midtown that’s meant to evoke Shanghai before World War II.
So dismal was the love life of Steven Blier, the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, he emphatically declared in the summer of 1996 that he was “Not. Dating. Capital N, capital D.”
Allegra Charlotte Ford, the daughter of Anne Ford of New York and the late Giancarlo Uzielli, weds Joshua Thomas, with whom she owns a fitness center in Massachusetts.
The couple met in July 2006, but started dating after crossing paths again 18 months later.
The bride, a vice president at a consulting firm, and the bridegroom, the press secretary for House Speaker John A. Boehner, marry in Mississippi.
Wedding photos (if not the marriage) are forever, so brides are increasingly going on crash diets, cowed by the prospect of wearing a revealing and expensive gown.
Answers to readers’ questions about how to tell friends or relatives they are not invited to your big day.
The actress Fran Drescher is the officiant for two same-sex marriages at the Out NYC hotel in Manhattan.
Ed and Sam met playing volleyball. After gay marriage was legalized in New York, they got married.
Two friends and collectors, compulsive accumulators both, live among eclectic treasures in their 57th Street apartment.
The secret to brewing excellent, flavorful coffee at home? Grind your own beans.
A New York-based fashion designer shares her recipe for a good dinner party.
Milla Jovovich, Erin Beatty and Kate Mara were recently seen sporting spring's pop-colored and printed clutches.
Excellence where you least expect it: a tiny cafe tucked into an office building in L.A., courtesy of Suzanne Goin.
Virgin Airlines's new spa at New York's Kennedy Airport offers a solution to plane bed head.
The Maison's first North American store at the NoMad Hotel retains a distinctly Parisian feel.
The "Avengers" actress is the picture of the modern lady in a Burberry dress and carrying a Victoria Beckham bag.
An urban fisherman lures foragers into San Francisco's waterways.
Restoration Hardware, the curator-retailer that sells retro-chic furnishings, has also become a collector of vintage architecture.
A selection of rare Elsa Schiaparelli jewelry goes on sale next week, timed to a big museum show at the Met.