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A Look Back at “Bravehearts: Men in Skirts,” the Costume Institute’s First and Only Exhibition of Menswear Until Now
One of the distinguishing aspects of the much anticipated “Superfine” exhibition at The Met is that it’s the first dedicated ...
The 2025 Met Gala Spotlights 250 Years of Black Men’s Fashion History
O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...
Black male beauty, respectability in all its complexity at the Met
For its first exhibition focused on Black style, the Met’s Costume Institute celebrates the Black dandy in its galleries and ...
Lewis Hamilton at the Met Gala: Why the F1 star is a modern muse for the 2025 exhibition
Moments like Abu Dhabi reflect why Hamilton was selected as one of the co-chairs for Monday’s Met Gala, the fundraiser for ...
Highlights from Met Gala exhibit: A look at Black style gives prominent voice to emerging designers
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the ...
'Clothes can contain a lot of emotion': How black men have used flamboyant fashion to express pride and resistance
This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold ...
Tailoring and the Black dandy: how 250 years of Black fashion history inspired the 2025 Met Gala
The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the ...
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The 'first celebrity chef': How 19th-Century cook Antonin Carême made extraordinary food fit for kings
Indeed, Benjamin Voisin, the actor playing Antonin Carême, believes that if the chef had been working in the 2020s ... New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs ...