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Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan explains why she thinks Jeff Bezos skipped the Met Gala red carpet. She says people are protesting his involvement because “all of those billionaires sort of taking over” isn’t sitting well with people… Whether it’s at the Met, in government, or in the tech we use daily.

Extreme visibility has historically been the name of the game on the Meta Gala’s celebrity-packed red carpet, but this year some guests hid (or at least obscured) their biggest asset: Their faces. It started with the eye masks. Rachel Zegler, dressed in Prabal Gurung and referencing Paul Delaroche’s 19th century painting of Lady Jane Grey, wore a gauzy recreation of the young queen of England’s execution blindfold. Then in a more obvious act of provocation, wearing a frayed tulle ball gown, Sarah Paulson arrived “blinded by money” — her eyes covered with leather dollar bill designed by avant garde Parisian…

London —  Buying a tailored suit is not something many would associate with Nigo, the Japanese multi-hyphenate designer who famously established the blueprint for modern streetwear with his loud, graphic-heavy, scarcity-driven designs. Yet one of the first things he did on his latest trip to London was visit the city’s infamous tailoring street, Savile Row. “Recently, my suits have been from Henry Poole, but I’ve been having my suits made for the last 20 years from Huntsman, and from Anderson & Sheppard,” Nigo says, during a rare interview at the Design Museum where an exhibition spotlighting his three-decade career opens Friday.…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. Ever wish your dog was more patriotic, better company during soccer games and sufficiently excited for this summer’s FIFA World Cup? No? Well, Adidas is here to help anyway. Replica jerseys have become a staple part of World Cup summers. And on Friday, the German sportswear giant released a petwear range to help dogs and their owners “celebrate their love for the game together.” The canine versions of four…

The annual Met Gala, which takes place this year on Monday, May 4, is always a lightning rod for controversy. Was Karl Lagerfeld too problematic to serve as a 2023 theme? Was TikTok, which had just been deemed a national security threat by the US government, an appropriate sponsor for 2024’s gala? And just how small can designers make Kim Kardashian’s waist? (This one comes up almost yearly.) But the 2026 gala, celebrating the accompanying exhibition, “Costume Art,” that gathers examples of clothed bodies from across the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curatorial departments, has proven especially contentious. Elected amid growing…

When “The Devil Wears Prada” was released in 2006, it won over countless fans: critics adored how it spikily satirized the sudsy but serious business of fashion magazine publishing; Meryl Streep, playing formidable magazine editor Miranda Priestly, and costume designer Patricia Field (who also masterminded the looks on “Sex and the City”) earned Academy Award nominations; and the film grossed over $300 million. But fashion insiders were not among the reverent. Not only did Anna Wintour, upon whom Miranda is based, ignore the 2003 book — “I cannot remember who that girl is,” she said to a colleague upon learning…

The late fashion editor Diana Vreeland — who pioneered a spirit of probing whimsy that inflects everything from the Met Gala to “The Devil Wears Prada” to TikTok — was once asked what advice she’d give to young designers. “I think having a great sense of pleasure, and living a big life — as big as you can take, without interfering in any way with your work,” she said in her plummy transatlantic accent (can an influencer please make their whole personality bringing those back?). You can’t design in isolation, she said, “because there’s no heart in it. There’s no…

CNN’s Rachel Tashjian takes Eva Longoria to Michael’s Luxury Consignment in New York City to show her that it isn’t the beret or striped shirt that defines classic French style, but this timeless piece instead.Watch more exploration of culture, history, and cuisine in CNN Original Series Eva Longoria: Searching for France, streaming now on the CNN app.

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. This week, Rihanna fronted the cover of W Magazine in head-to-toe Dior. Her eyes were ringed in purple shadow, her cheeks blended with orange blush, and a whacky lilac buccaneer-style hat by milliner Stephen Jones framed her face. And yet even with all that to look at, all eyes were on baby Rocki — her 7-month-old daughter, happily cradled in her arms. Rihanna the mother has been the theme…

First Lady Melania Trump stood in front of reporters, supporters and colleagues at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Friday in an ensemble of frosty wealth essentials – a Bottega Veneta peacoat, leather leggings and Christian Louboutin snakeskin heels – and extolled the virtues of a slash of black fabric that zigzagged across the white column gown she wore for her husband’s second inauguration as president, just over a year ago. This was no mere ruffle or adornment; it was a black silk gazar summation of her biography, as imagined by her longtime stylist, designer Herve Pierre. “The…