Behind every great look from a Met Gala heavyweight, there are usually five equally brilliant looks, and then one terrible one. The first. After years of highly publicized, painstakingly documented Met Galas, it can be hard to recall the looks from just five years ago, let alone the 2000s or, god forbid, the 2010s. As … Read more
Roberto Cavalli in 2005 with singer Christina Aguilera, whom he called his muse: ‘excess is sometimes success’, he said – Fred Prouser Roberto Cavalli, who has died aged 83, was the maximalist Italian fashion designer known as the ‘Leopard King’ who unleashed his fever dream of exotic animal prints, skin-tight sandblasted jeans and gravity-defying dresses … Read more
The Prince of Wales and Tom Cruise at the London Air Ambulance charity gala dinner on February 7, 2024 – Andrew Parsons/Kensington Palace Over the course of his more than forty years as a Hollywood star, Tom Cruise has managed to break in and out of some of the world’s most impenetrable institutions: hideouts for … Read more