MET Gala 2017 Pharrell & Helen: the MET Chosen Someone was going to show up in a classic Comme Des Garcons signature piece – the kind of piece that isn’t conventionally “wearable” but that is unmistakably Rei Kawakubo. A garment that’s also a sculpture. The only question: who would have the honour, who would be the chosen? Because By Lainey • May 02, 2017 01:30 am
MET Gala 2017 Jaden Smith: Best MET Accessory This is the one we might be fighting about the hardest. Lainey, you’re just trying to be different. Trying too hard to be different. Jaden tries too hard to be different. Here’s my response to that: He IS different. If you don’t think he’s different then By Lainey • May 02, 2017 12:49 am
MET Gala 2017 Zendaya & Jessica Chastain: Best & Worst Belles of the MET Gala Is it possible to ignore the theme of the MET Gala and still somehow honour it? Of course. Rei Kawakubo is a fashion contrarian. To the extreme. So, if you are going to be contrary, in the spirit of Rei Kawakubo, you must go all the way. Which is exactly By Lainey • May 02, 2017 12:30 am
MET Gala 2017 Intro for May 2, 2017 Dear Gossips, Sarah Jessica Parker was not at the MET Gala last night. And she was missed. She was f-cking missed. You know what would be a disaster for Anna Wintour? If both SJP and Rihanna didn’t show. Let this be a prayer: please, in the future, there By Lainey • May 01, 2017 11:50 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Tracee’s pre-MET glasses Tracee Ellis Ross is also in New York today, also possibly for the MET Gala. And she too has never been. If she’s going, I’m putting a lot of hope in her, hope that she will interpret the theme, honour Rei Kawakubo with structure, an unconventional shape, some By Lainey • May 01, 2017 04:28 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Halle’s pre-MET raincoat OMGGG is Halle Berry going to the MET Gala? I don’t ever remember seeing her there. But she’s in New York today. And almost everyone who’s in NYC today is there for the MET Gala. If she’s going, I’m predicting she’ll be in Versace. By Lainey • May 01, 2017 04:15 pm
Taylor Swift The Michael Fassbender Tom Hiddleston hot-off Tonight is the MET Gala. Which is why we should light a candle for what happened last year at the MET Gala. The MET Gala gave us the Summer of Swoki. Gossip owes Anna Wintour forever. But Taylor Swift has been QUIEEEEEEEEET, non? Quieter the last couple of months than By Lainey • May 01, 2017 04:07 pm
Selena Gomez Countdown to the MET Gala: on gossip alert Selena Gomez was in LA this weekend for The Weeknd’s show at The Forum. Here she is today arriving at her hotel in NYC ahead of the tonight’s MET Gala. I’m curious to see what she’ll be wearing tonight and how she’ll interpret the theme. By Lainey • May 01, 2017 03:40 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé’s captions Beyoncé, as we know, does not explain. There has been no true Beyoncé interview in years. She is extremely selective about when she speaks. Even on social media, Beyoncé gives us very little in the way of description. But this weekend, Beyoncé gave us some words. The words were in By Lainey • May 01, 2017 01:31 pm
TV Updates JRod at the MET Gala? Jennifer Lopez is currently in New York, working on Shades Of Blue. Last night she stepped out for dinner with Alex Rodriguez. Tonight… well… if she’s not shooting… It’s the MET Gala. JLO has attended a few MET Galas in her time. She was last at the MET By Lainey • May 01, 2017 11:34 am
Maple Leaf All The Feelings… at the Met Gala! Duana and I were in New York this weekend. There was a lot of emotion this weekend. Probably most of it was about Hamilton (we went on Saturday night) but… now I’m thinking some of those feelings could have been because we were feeling them from the source of By Lainey • May 01, 2017 10:23 am
Anna Wintour Intro for May 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this website – a gossip site – for a while, you are familiar with the position we take on gossip: that gossip is not irrelevant, that gossip can illuminate, that gossip is a conversation about social issues, social behaviours, even social injustice. As Anne Helen By Lainey • May 01, 2017 09:00 am
Aaron Johnson My Obsession went to New York I wrote about My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor Johnson yesterday heading out of LA. They ended up in New York for the premiere of his new film, The Wall. So… if they’re already in New York… They could totally stay until Monday for the MET Gala. Which was By Lainey • Apr 28, 2017 02:25 pm
Top Reads Gwyneth & Anna get back together The MET Gala is on Monday. We’re writing through the night on Monday for full coverage on Tuesday. I’m excited. I love the MET Gala. And I think you love the MET Gala. I love bitching about the people who don’t understand the theme. I love bitching By Lainey • Apr 28, 2017 12:56 pm
Ben Affleck JLO says ARod is “supportive” Jennifer Lopez performed at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Miami last night. She sang her new Spanish single, Mirate. And she wore two dresses and I’m not sure why she bothered changing because, to me anyway, they’re exactly the same. And here’s where you tell me, By Lainey • Apr 28, 2017 11:34 am
Selena Gomez Selena Gomez did not cut her hair and “ugly-cool” pants Selena Gomez hosted WE Day California yesterday. She’s been involved in WE Day for a few years now. WE Day started in Canada, here in Toronto, where I’m based, by Craig Kielburger and his brother Mark to encourage students to participate in year-long philanthropic programs, building their By Lainey • Apr 28, 2017 10:22 am
