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While stars, celebrities and Anna Wintour ascended the steps at the Met Gala on Monday night, protesters began assembling on the streets just surrounding the museum. In Central Park, a small group of protesters, accompanied by an A.C.L.U. observer in a blue vest, gathered with cardboard signs reading “No Met Gala While Bombs Drop in Gaza” and “No Celebration Without Liberation,” mixed in among signs that mostly dealt directly with the war in Gaza. Representatives of the group declined to answer questions or say how many protesters they were expecting. Another larger group made its way along Fifth Avenue, with many participants waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Gaza!

Persons: Anna Wintour, ” Organizations: New York Police Department Locations: Central, Gaza, Gaza .

☆ In Brooklyn, the Anti-Met Gala Raises Funds for Medical Debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Twenty-four hours before the Met Gala, a starkly different sort of gala occurred in Brooklyn at the Bell House, a concert venue that sits on a lonesome industrial street near the Gowanus Canal. It was the second annual Debt Gala, which bills itself as a D.I.Y. alternative to the lavish spring benefit in Manhattan, which raises hundreds of millions each year for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. The theme, “Sleeping Baddies: Slumber Party,” was a parody of this year’s Met ball theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Many of the participants at the Bell House wore bathrobes, pajamas and fuzzy slippers, along with sleep masks, travel pillows and other slumber-centric accessories.

Persons: ” Organizations: Bell, Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Locations: Brooklyn, Gowanus, Manhattan

☆ Patti Smith Sings for a ‘New York Gem’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Alex Vadukul | Dolly Faibyshev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over a century ago, J.P. Morgan built a majestic library for his opulent mansion in Midtown Manhattan. After his death, his son, the financier Jack Morgan, opened it to the public in 1924, and it eventually became the Morgan Library & Museum. Last night, crowds of art patrons and well-heeled bibliophiles gathered in that grand library to attend the Morgan’s centennial celebration. Servers wended through the crowd, carrying hors d’oeuvres trays of crescent duck and caviar as they passed shelves lined with rare editions of works by Rousseau and Voltaire. Devotees of the Morgan like the architect Peter Marino, the art dealer Vito Schnabel and the artist Walton Ford were in attendance.

Persons: Morgan, Jack Morgan, bibliophiles, Dante, Socrates, tuxedos, Keane, Taylor Swift, Rousseau, Voltaire, Peter Marino, Vito Schnabel, Walton Ford, Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit Organizations: Morgan Library & Museum Locations: Midtown Manhattan

☆ A Brooklyn D.I.Y. Landmark Changes With the Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just before midnight on Saturday, hard techno began pulsating from the Market Hotel, a D.I.Y. music venue located beside the elevated tracks of a Myrtle Avenue subway station in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The party, “Market Hotel Sweet Sixteen,” was meant to commemorate the venue’s legacy as a D.I.Y. Over a decade ago, the Market Hotel nurtured a middle-class bohemia, providing a stage to punk and indie bands like Real Estate, Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus and the So So Glos. If you knew, you knew.

Persons: fanny, ”, Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus Locations: Myrtle, Bushwick , Brooklyn, bohemia

☆ Cast of ‘The New Look’ Reflects on Chanel and Dior’s War-Torn Past
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Alex Vadukul | Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday evening along Madison Avenue in Manhattan, while fashionistas on the Upper East Side finished their shopping rounds at Dior and Chanel, a crowd headed to the French Institute Alliance Française to attend the premiere of an Apple TV+ series that recounts the origin story of those two fashion houses through the tale of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior’s lives in war-torn Paris during the 1940s. “The New Look,” which starts streaming today, is a period drama that portrays the rivalry between Chanel, who is played by Juliette Binoche, and Dior, who is played by Ben Mendelsohn. The show chronicles how these two figures were shaped by the moral challenges of life in Nazi-occupied Paris and how they managed survival and self-preservation. The war’s effect on Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain and Pierre Cardin is also explored. Her younger and striving rival, Dior, resentfully makes evening gowns for the wives of Nazis, while his sister, Catherine, is sent to a concentration camp after her arrest as a resistance fighter.

Persons: Chanel, French Institute Alliance Française, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior’s, “, Juliette Binoche, Dior, Ben Mendelsohn, Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Pierre Cardin, Chanel’s, Winston Churchill, resentfully, Catherine Organizations: Madison, East Side, Dior, French Institute Alliance, Apple, Nazi Locations: Manhattan, fashionistas, Paris, Nazi

☆ Keith McNally’s Filmmaking Past Is Forgotten No More
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Thursday night at the Roxy Cinema in Lower Manhattan, a throng of scarf-bundled cinephiles attended the sold-out screening of a black-and-white psychological thriller, “End of the Night,” that was being shown for the first time in more than 30 years. The film’s obscurity wasn’t what drew the crowd: They were there because of its unlikely writer and director, Keith McNally, the downtown restaurateur who runs Balthazar, Minetta Tavern, Pastis and Morandi. Before he shaped New York’s nightlife with his brasseries, Mr. McNally had serious filmmaking ambitions. His first full-length feature, “End of the Night,” premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight showcase during the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, appearing alongside Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan.” It went on to be a minor hit in Europe before it became a cinematic footnote. In advance of the screenings at the Roxy, an 118-seat art house cinema located in a hotel in TriBeCa, Mr. McNally drummed up interest with a post on his popular Instagram account: “ANYONE WATCHING THIS FILM AT THE ROXY CAN EAT AT BALTHAZAR OR MINETTA TAVERN THAT SAME NIGHT FOR HALF-PRICE,” he wrote in his typical all-caps style.

Persons: cinephiles, Keith McNally, Balthazar, Minetta, McNally, ”, Whit Stillman’s Organizations: Roxy, Mr, ROXY CAN Locations: Lower Manhattan, Whit Stillman’s “, ”, Europe, TriBeCa

☆ Leather and Lace for the Queen of Pop
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Alex Vadukul | Amir Hamja | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Madonna performed at Madison Square Garden on Monday night as part of her Celebration Tour, a lavish stage spectacle devoted to her catalog of hits as the Queen of Pop. During “Like a Prayer,” she sang from a spinning carousel filled with jumbo crucifixes and shirtless men. “I don’t know when I’m going to be back here playing again, but I’m doing this show like it’s my last show,” Madonna, 65, told the crowd. “And I’m doing this show like it’s my first show.”Before the concert, the scene outside the arena resembled a fashion runway as Madonna fans arrived to serve up style tributes to her. Men emerged from the subway wearing black biker boots and leather jackets.

Persons: Madonna, ”, Kelly Ripa, “, Papa Don’t, Sophy LeMay Organizations: Vogue, Penn Station, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Locations: Madison

☆ A Vintage Shop to the Stars Holds Its Own Against New Rivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The two men became friends at Syracuse University in the late 1980s. The hunt for vintage became their obsession. In those days, secondhand meant second-rate to much of the fashion set, and the duo saw themselves as downtown entrepreneurs whose mission it was to preach the gospel of vintage. “The stigma was that people felt it was beneath them to buy something used,” Mr. Weisser said, “but we saw wearing vintage as giving someone individuality.”Their first regulars included Jean Paul Gaultier and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Stylists for “Sex and the City” found outfits there for the show’s star, Sarah Jessica Parker, who became a client herself.

Persons: Levi’s, Eisenhower, Mr, Weisser, ”, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carolyn Bessette, Kennedy, Sarah Jessica Parker Organizations: Syracuse University, Rose Locations: Manhattan, Bronx, Pasadena , Calif

☆ At 98, She’s a Social Media Star
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Chrissie Evert commented on my serve,” Mrs. Wiggins said in the living room of her brownstone, where she and Mr. Astor, 59, were seated next to a crackling fire. “She said it looks like her serve.”Part of the accounts’ charm lies in her indifference to social media. Mrs. Wiggins, who was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, met him when she was in her early 30s, and they were married for 61 years. “When my husband died, I was totally devastated,” Mrs. Wiggins said. “My whole life was him.” Referring to her social media accounts, she added, “My son started this, because he thought it would take my mind off the grief.”

Persons: can’t, “ Chrissie Evert, ”, Wiggins, Astor, “, “ TikTok, ” Guy Wiggins Organizations: Foreign Service Locations: Midtown, East Hampton, Instagram, Amagansett, Forest, Queens

On Wednesday night, inside a cavernous event space on the Lower East Side, at the annual gala for the public art organization Creative Time, the actor Jeremy Strong said the news that striking actors and Hollywood studios had reached a tentative deal, “went around the room like wildfire.”“I just think it’s great news for the lights to be turned back on for everybody,” Mr. Strong said. “It means we can all get back to work,” said Julianne Moore, who added, “I miss my community. I miss getting up, and I’m just thinking about things, talking about things, working with other creative people.”“I miss, like, making something,” said Michelle Williams. Nearly 500 people attended the event. The crowd of actors, designers and art world fixtures, included the curator Antwaun Sargent, the designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia, the artist Taryn Simon, and Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, who was previously the president and artistic director of Creative Time.

Persons: Jeremy Strong, “, ” Mr, Strong, ”, Julianne Moore, ” “, Michelle Williams, Rick Lowe, Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jon Neidich, Antwaun Sargent, Waris Ahluwalia, Taryn Simon, Anne Pasternak Organizations: Hollywood, Brooklyn Museum, Creative

☆ Desperately Seeking Da Silvano
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One recent morning, in the bustle of Florence’s ancient central market, Silvano Marchetto, a stout 76-year-old man with a mane of white hair, sat nursing a Negroni as he considered what he wanted to cook for dinner. The butchers and fishmongers who walked by threw respectful nods his way. The silver bracelets on his wrists jangled as he polished off his drink. Shuffling past meat displays and fruit stands as he went deeper into the market, he grunted reminiscences about his old life in New York City, back when he ran a celebrity haven in Greenwich Village, Da Silvano. Its operator, Elena Popa, gave him a look.

Persons: Silvano, fishmongers, “ Lou Reed, ” “ Rihanna, ”, Anna Wintour’s, Mr, Marchetto, Elena Popa Locations: New York City, Greenwich Village

☆ Patti LuPone Sings for the LuPonettes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last weekend on Fire Island in New York, far from the bright lights of Broadway, Patti LuPone performed at the Ice Palace nightclub for some of her most adoring fans. These die-hards, sometimes called LuPonettes, included a man who had seen Ms. LuPone in the 1979 production of “Evita” and another who had a caricature of her tattooed on his back. “I first fell in love with Patti when I saw the ‘Evita’ commercial,” he said. In addition to its Friday night Underwear Party, its stage has hosted Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming. “Patti has played the greatest venues in the world, but for her to play here it’s about connecting with her most fervent fan base,” the club’s co-owner, Daniel Nardicio, said.

Persons: Patti LuPone, LuPone, Evita ”, Ben Rimalower, Patti, ”, “ I’ve, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Alan Cumming, “ Patti, Daniel Nardicio, “ Organizations: Chita Locations: New York, Cherry Grove

☆ Old-School Fans Celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx. On Friday night, exactly 50 years later, a concert was held at Yankee Stadium — roughly a mile and a half from hip-hop’s birthplace — to honor the occasion, featuring Run-DMC, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Kim and Nas. DJ Kool Herc, 68, also appeared onstage to accept an award. “I prefer old-school hip-hop,” Hetep said. He rapped about positivity, and that’s also what my music is about.”In the edited interviews below, attendees reflected on hip-hop’s 50th.

Persons: DJ Kool Herc, —, Slick Rick, Snoop Dogg, Lil ’ Kim, Nas, Tupac Shakur, Hetep BarBoy, ” Hetep, “, that’s Organizations: Yankee, ” Locations: Bronx

☆ Mourners Pay Tribute to O’Shae Sibley at the Scene of His Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Qween Jean, the founder of the advocacy group Black Trans Liberation, said: “Vogueing is not a crime. So today we will vogue in honor of O’Shae.”In the moments before his death, Mr. Sibley and four friends stopped at the Mobil station on Coney Island Avenue after a day at the beach. One of them pulled a knife and stabbed Mr. Sibley. Vogueing, an exuberant dance style that makes use of fashion models’ runway poses, emerged in the Black and Latino queer underground ballroom scene of the 1980s. Mr. Sibley, a Philadelphia native who moved to New York a few years ago with aspirations of pursuing a dance career, found a community in the city’s contemporary ballroom circuit.

Persons: Qween Jean, Sibley, Mr Organizations: Trans, Mobil, Brooklyn Locations: ”, Coney, Philadelphia, New York

☆ The Life and Death of a ‘Punk Rock Warhol’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Kozik was a punk rock Warhol,” said the artist Shepard Fairey. “He was all about subverting culture. Even his most famous character, Labbit, it might look cute, but it’s about subverting culture. To hear he’s now been unsung, I think, is something he’d have fun being bitter about.”As Mr. Kozik told it in interviews, his penchant for defiance could be traced to his youth. It was there, in the city’s punk scene, that Mr. Kozik found his calling.

Persons: “ Kozik, ”, Shepard Fairey, Warhol, Frank, Kozik, ” Mr, he’s, Francisco Franco’s, Pink Floyd Organizations: Air Force Locations: Madrid, American, Spanish, California, Sacramento, Austin , Texas

☆ Fashion High: Inside New York’s Semi-Secret School for Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As techno music blasted, one teenager after another stopped to pose for cameras in a cordoned-off area of Gansevoort Plaza in the meatpacking district. Upon their return to a tented area, they exchanged hugs and high fives with their fellow models. After all, wasn’t New York Fashion Week not until September? And why was the audience cheering with the kind of abandon typical of parents at a graduation ceremony? As it happened, the event that took place last Wednesday evening was a graduation ceremony of sorts: This was the annual runway show for the senior class of the High School of Fashion Industries, the only trade-based public school in New York City dedicated to fashion.

Persons: Pastis Organizations: wasn’t New York, High School of Fashion Industries Locations: Lower Manhattan, Gansevoort, meatpacking, New York City

☆ What’s in Our Queue? ‘Heat’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What’s in Our Queue? ‘Heat’ and MoreI’m a feature writer and reporter on The Times’s Styles desk — and a lifelong movie fanatic. I’ve been rewatching films I first saw long ago, trying to appreciate them now on a more critical level and being reminded that great work stands the test of time for a reason. Here are five movies I’ve watched recently →

Persons: I’ve

Michel Gaubert first crossed paths with Karl Lagerfeld when he worked at a record store on the Champs-Élysée. “All his life Karl was obsessed with music,” he recalled. All his life Karl was obsessed with music. Then one day Eric came and asked if I wanted to work with the Karl Lagerfeld brand. Karl said Diane de Beauvau-Craon [a French princess and a pal of Mr. Lagerfeld’s] would call me.

☆ The New Tiffany, Unboxed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly four years, the Tiffany & Company flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street was shrouded in scaffolding while it underwent a full-bore renovation. In the days before the reopening, set for April 28, a Tiffany executive vice president, Alexandre Arnault, and the company’s chief executive, Anthony Ledru, monitored final preparations as they whispered to each other in French. Display cases glittered with Tiffany pieces — heart tag bracelets, Elsa Peretti Bone cuffs and Paloma Picasso necklaces. Digital screens encircling the room showed an animation of a diamond-encrusted bird fluttering across the New York City skyline. We decided to do both.”He gestured toward the digitized bird, noting that it was based on a design by the noted Tiffany jewelry artist Jean Schlumberger.

☆ Tony Bennett Finds His Heart in Central Park
▼ + stars: | 2015-11-29 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tony Bennett sat on a green bench in the morning calm of Central Park, painting the fiery foliage of a tree reflecting against a duck pond. He wore a green tracksuit and sneakers. His brush hand zoomed across the sketchbook in his lap. He tuned out the city, sitting by a southern entrance to the park this month. “Excuse me, sir?”Mr. Bennett glanced up and then gazed down again.

Persons: Tony Bennett, —, ”, Mr, Bennett glanced Locations: America

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