Met Gala 2022 Michelle & Lena/Gemma & Ho-yeon: Jewel Tones over Black?! For Duana, it will always be jewel tones over black. For me? It will always be black over jewel tones. So I’ve shocked myself with this anomaly, a glitch in the Matrix. What’s not shocking is that it’s Michelle Yeoh who has caused it. But let’s By Lainey • May 03, 2022 02:22 pm
Met Gala 2022 Oscar and a Disney Prince Let’s begin with the less divisive celebrity because everyone loves Oscar Isaac. A few weeks ago, during the press tour for Moon Knight, Oscar rocked up on two occasions in a skirt and bent the internet. That energy continued at the Met Gala last night as he too made By Lainey • May 03, 2022 01:23 pm
Met Gala 2022 Alicia and Jessica Giving Grand Met Gala One of my best dressed picks from this year’s gala is Alicia Keys. Hands down. If there’s one thing Alicia’s always going to give you, it’s New York City and she did not disappoint. The “Empire State of Mind” singer showed up in a dress inspired By Lainey • May 03, 2022 11:12 am
Met Gala 2022 Bad Bunny and Stormzy: Two More Rookies Like Ariana DeBose and Simone Ashley, it was also the first time at the Met Gala for Bad Bunny and Stormzy. And like Ariana and Simone, they too repped the same fashion house: Burberry. For Bad Bunny, not only is this one theme with all the design detailing of the By Lainey • May 03, 2022 10:47 am
Met Gala 2022 Rookies and Veterans: Ariana, Simone, Gwen, and Katy Technically this wasn’t Ariana DeBose’s first Met Gala; she attended back in September but of course that was before the release of West Side Story, before she became the frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress Oscar, before she became the Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner. And also that Met By Lainey • May 03, 2022 10:36 am
Met Gala 2022 SJP: Always Researched As we all know by now when it comes to Sarah Jessica Parker and the Met Gala, it’s that she does the research. She just said last week that she spends months working on her look and that it should be “labour-intensive and challenging”. SJP will always do the By Lainey • May 03, 2022 09:25 am
Met Gala 2022 Intro for May 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, As far as themes go, this year’s Met Gala wasn’t the highest degree of difficulty. The Costume Institute’s exhibit is In America: An Anthology of Fashion so, technically, any American designer puts you “on theme”. According to the invitation, the dress code was “gilded glamour, By Lainey • May 03, 2022 08:18 am
What Else What Else? I think I disagree with the Fug Girls here, with love of course and always – because the “unravelling” of Zoe Saldana’s dress is what makes it for me. And especially that it’s only on one side. Like this kind of tear/rip design doesn’t work for me By Lainey • May 02, 2022 04:03 pm
Style Vanessa Hudgens: Anna-approved It is Met Gala tradition for the co-chairs of the Met Gala and a select few other VIPs to attend a small, private dinner hosted by Anna Wintour ahead of Monday night’s big spectacle. Vanessa Hudgens was there last night because she and LaLa Anthony are hosting Vogue’s By Lainey • May 02, 2022 01:19 pm
Style Everyone in New York If you’ve been online at all today, if you’ve opened up Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, there’s no escaping it – it’s Met Gala Monday. People have been talking about it for days, we’ve been talking about it for days, and the talking is about to escalate By Lainey • May 02, 2022 12:45 pm
Quiveration Beautiful Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper has been in New York for months on pre-production for this Leonardo Bernstein biopic. They’re supposed to start shooting really soon and just last week announced that Maya Hawke has joined the cast alongside Bradley and Carey Mulligan. Before that though, there’s time to make some By Lainey • May 02, 2022 11:55 am
Top Reads Angelina in Ukraine Back in March, around the time of International Women’s Day, Angelina Jolie was in Yemen as part of her work with the UNHCR for three days meeting with “both internally displaced Yemenis as well as refugees in the north and south of the country”. Six weeks later and another By Lainey • May 02, 2022 10:47 am
TV Updates Intro for May 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last Monday I posted in this space about Heartstopper, the new queer teen rom-com on Netflix. I’d just started watching, as the series was just starting to pick up momentum, and even though at the time I was only two and a half episodes in, I was By Lainey • May 02, 2022 09:04 am
What Else What Else? Katie Holmes has a new boyfriend and PEOPLE has the exclusive photos that confirm she has a new boyfriend, Bobby Wooten III. The headline here is that they’re holding hands. Which is an interesting editorial choice because they also have a photo of Katie and Bobby kissing. Like romantic By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 05:22 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Maya’s Stripes We’ve been seeing these pieces from Christopher John Rogers’s 008 collection for months, if not a whole year, now and I’m still not tired of it. And that’s why he’s one of the most exciting names in fashion right now – can’t wait to see By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 03:40 pm
Top Reads James Corden’s Last Year It was big news yesterday – the announcement that after next season, James Corden will be leaving The Late Late Show. One of the major reasons this was a surprise is that the show is considered a success. It’s not like James and The Late Late Show were struggling. Carpool By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 02:51 pm