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.
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Inside guests enjoyed predinner cocktails.
The preview of the museum’s Schiaparelli-Prada show brings out stars, designers and Tim Tebow.
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Fashion Forward in Comfort at the Met Gala
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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.
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Stealing the show at the Met Ball last night was a new and dynamic kind of power couple: the designer plus model/muse.
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The Get | Prada Re-Edition Bag
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Pieces from the Prada archive can now be had outside of the Met's Costume Institute, too.
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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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Glass Houses in the Countryside
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Craig Claiborne, center, and Pierre Franey, left, enjoyed a $4,000 meal in Paris in 1975. The report appeared in a front-page article.
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.
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Eating Well Without the Flavor of Shame
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In his new book, the veteran food writer Peter Kaminsky writes that by maximizing flavor, you can satisfy your food cravings with smaller portions.
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La Silhouette is on the extremely short list of good French restaurants in walking distance of the Broadway theaters.
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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 Ford and Joshua Thomas
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.
Kristina Roddy and Earl Hunt II
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The couple met in July 2006, but started dating after crossing paths again 18 months later.
Mary Kathryn Covert and Michael Steel
The bride, a vice president at a consulting firm, and the bridegroom, the press secretary for House Speaker John A. Boehner, marry in Mississippi.
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Bridal Hunger Games
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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.
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Answers to readers’ questions about how to tell friends or relatives they are not invited to your big day.
Marriages by Fran Drescher
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Vows: Ed & Sam
Ed and Sam met playing volleyball. After gay marriage was legalized in New York, they got married.
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Two friends and collectors, compulsive accumulators both, live among eclectic treasures in their 57th Street apartment.
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The secret to brewing excellent, flavorful coffee at home? Grind your own beans.
Profile in Style | Misha Nonoo
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A New York-based fashion designer shares her recipe for a good dinner party.
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Spring Staples | The Punchy Clutch
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Milla Jovovich, Erin Beatty and Kate Mara were recently seen sporting spring's pop-colored and printed clutches.
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L.A. P.O.V. | The Quiet Allure of the Larder at Maple Drive
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Excellence where you least expect it: a tiny cafe tucked into an office building in L.A., courtesy of Suzanne Goin.
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A Little Something Schiaparelli?
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A selection of rare Elsa Schiaparelli jewelry goes on sale next week, timed to a big museum show at the Met.
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