After the Gala

Still recovering from Monday night’s Met Gala? Join the club. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of coverage to be found on VF,including Chris Murphy’s closer look at how all year long, both Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been doing high-fashion cosplay as their Wicked characters at events from the Oscars to the Super Bowl to, yes, last night’s Costume Institute event. Expect even more to come before Wicked finally premieres this fall.  Elsewhere in HWD, VF’s fashion team makes their picks for the best-dressed celebrities at the Met Gala; Savannah Walsh chats with Riley Keough about her interpretation of the “Garden of Time” dress code; David Canfield takes a deep dive into the fourth episode of The Sympathizer; and Erin Vanderhoof digs into Black Twitter: A People’s History.

Wicked Fashion

As they prepare for the release of their musical, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are having a ball channeling Elphaba and Glinda during their marathon of a press tour.

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Flower Power

The only thing better than earning a spot on the Met Gala guest list is being placed on Vanity Fair’s best-dressed list.

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Fortunate Son

The fourth episode of The Sympathizer seems to take sharp aim at Apocalypse Now, Marlon Brando, and more. Here’s everything that went into it.

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Let Chanel Be Chanel

Before descending upon the Met Gala red carpet in head-to-toe Chanel, Riley Keough reminisced on her favorite Met memory with friend Kristen Stewart and revealed that she has seen your posts about her chemistry with costar Lily Gladstone.

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“American Culture Is Black Culture”

Prentice Penny explains the through lines between Twitter, its Black users, and the way that confluence forever changed politics and culture.

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