Met Gala 2023 Met Gala Violins and Strands of Pearls It’s a fashion scandal…and a mystery! Olivia Wilde was at the Met Gala with Gabriela Hearst, creative director of Chloé, which of course is a fashion house that also has ties to Karl Lagerfeld. Both Olivia and Gabriela were wearing pieces inspired by Karl’s 1983 Chloé collection. By Lainey • May 02, 2023 12:06 pm
Met Gala 2023 Team Valentino at the Met Gala I last posted about Florence Pugh last week when she attended the Tiffany & Co event and what I said was that for sure she’d be in Valentino given her close relationship with the house. So it wasn’t a surprise that she wore Valentino. The surprise was that By Lainey • May 02, 2023 10:13 am
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala: Jackets and Gloves Karl Lagerfeld for some people meant wedding dresses and bows. There were a lot of feathers too. That was the uber-feminine side of Karl. But he was also known to mix some menswear in with the femme. That’s what Kerry Washington was serving last night. Kerry is wearing By Lainey • May 02, 2023 09:40 am
Met Gala 2023 Intro for May 2, 2023 Dear Gossips, The theme of the Met Gala last night felt like Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball in 1966. Even with the cats that showed up. Did you know that Oscar De La Renta and Francoise de Langlade actually wore furry cat masks to the Black and White By Lainey • May 02, 2023 07:12 am
What Else What Else? If you haven’t yet, watch Roy Wood Jr’s excellent and hilarious speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The way he started in on Kamala Harris…and then pivoted… it’s so smart and so well-written. (Pajiba) Pedro Pascal IS dressed like a Jedi. And I’m By Lainey • May 01, 2023 04:15 pm
Kristen Stewart Jennie, Kristen, Margot: Chanel Girls Since Karl Lagerfeld is the theme of the Met Gala tonight, obviously Chanel is going to have a big presence. Karl didn’t just design with Chanel – Fendi, Chloe, Balmain, his own label, are other brands with Karl affiliation – but he is of course best known in the culture for By Lainey • May 01, 2023 02:40 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Gisele, Cardi, Benito: Met Gala Single and Couples The first Met Gala I ever covered, in person, was in 2008. The theme was Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. It was a wild year, a wild time in celebrity gossip. Just to give you an idea of what was happening back then… Tom Cruise was there, with Katie Holmes. It By Lainey • May 01, 2023 01:28 pm
Penelope Cruz The Co-Chairs at Dinner Anna Wintour hosts a pre-Met Gala dinner every year with the event’s co-chairs. The co-chairs this year are Michaela Coel, Penelope Cruz, Dua Lipa, and Roger Federer. Anna’s favourite sport is tennis; her favourite player is Roger. As for Penelope, given that the theme this By Lainey • May 01, 2023 12:46 pm
Rihanna Rihanna posts the backup There are so many reasons to appreciate Rihanna. We could do a whole week’s worth of content about this. But today I appreciate Rihanna because yesterday she pretty much confirmed it – she’ll be at the Met Gala tonight. Here’s what she posted on Instagram: “not even Monday” By Lainey • May 01, 2023 11:19 am
Glen Powell Sydney Sweeney: Still Engaged Last week Sydney Sweeney was heading to Las Vegas for CinemaCon with Glen Powell, having recently wrapped filming on their upcoming rom-com, Anyone But You, in Australia. They were travelling together to promote the movie amid all kinds of rumours about their relationship and whether or not they cheated By Lainey • May 01, 2023 10:18 am
Beyoncé Intro for May 1, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Met Gala is the big story in entertainment right now. Almost everyone is in New York ahead of tonight’s event but…is Beyoncé in New York for tonight’s event? The Met Gala is a fashion event and Beyoncé’s last Instagram post was fashion – the By Lainey • May 01, 2023 09:23 am
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Yara and Natasha Yara Shahidi has been on promotion the last couple of weeks for Peter Pan & Wendy premiering today on Disney+. She’s been in New York since at least Monday making the talk show and radio rounds, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her at the Met Gala By Lainey • Apr 28, 2023 02:18 pm
Hook Ups The Glen Powell Breakup Press Release For days now the internet has been obsessed with whether or not Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney were hooking up on the set of their rom-com Anyone But You in Australia. A couple of days ago, his now ex-girlfriend Gigi Paris pretty much confirmed that they broke up. By Lainey • Apr 28, 2023 12:14 pm
Pharrell Williams Jewels and Jimin at Tiffany & Co As I mentioned a couple of days ago, one of the biggest events on the New York social calendar this week was the reopening of The Landmark at Tiffany & Co on Fifth Avenue. It’s been under renovation for four years, LVMH has now taken over the brand, and By Lainey • Apr 28, 2023 11:03 am
What Else What Else? I’m not really a bag girl. Shoes are my thing but not bags. On the rare occasion I find myself drawn to a bag, it’s more often than not a cross-body, pretty standard, no frills. Louis Vuitton released a duck bag a couple of years ago that By Lainey • Apr 27, 2023 04:22 pm
Michael B Jordan The TIME 100: A Met Gala Appetizer? As mentioned in today’s open, even though there are always a lot of celebrities in New York on any given day, it feels extra loaded right now because the Met Gala is coming up soon. There was also the TIME 100 event last night which brought a lot of By Lainey • Apr 27, 2023 02:12 pm
