Countdown To Anna Wintour's Met Gala Collides With Obama East Side Fundraiser
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Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and US President Barack ObamaFashion, money, power and politicos will converge tonight on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour holds court at the annual spring Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a major recipient of Wintour’s Democratic and sometimes Republican fundraising network arrives on the Upper East Side for a Presidential.
President Obama Didn’t Check His Patron’s Anna’s Schedule
President Obama is in New York to film a segment for ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ in midtown at 4:20 pm and two Democratic National Committee fundraising events at 6:15pm and 8:15 pm. President Obama is scheduled to leave JFK airport on Air Force One at 10pm, so leaving the Met Gala will just be the ordinary traffic challenge.
Arriving at the Met Gala could be a big headache, however. A political fundraiser hosted by Loida Nicolas-Lewis — widow of the late Baltimore billionaire entrepreneur Reginald Lewis is steps away from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Anna Wintour’s Big Party
5 Facts about tonight’s Met Gala:
1) More than 500 Oscar-winning actors, ‘Wall Street titans, Silicon Valley wunderkinds, fashion designs and Hollywood players will attend’, writes the NYTimes Style section.
2) Last year the single evening generated almost $12 million to support the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Met.
3) Last year’s event generated 25 million page views on Vogue.com.
4) Filmmaker Andrew Rossi will be filming a documentary this year. Relativity Studios is partnering with Conde Nast Entertainment and Vogue to capture the planning and making of the exhibit and tonight’s gala — and the big event itself.
5) Since taking over the gala in 1999, Anna Wintour has raised in excess of $145 million for the Costume Institute.
Vogue Pajama Party
Page Six reports that top models, Mario Testino, Alexander Wang and Will.i.am attended a Vogue Pajama Party on Saturday night, in advance of tonight’s Met Gala. Models at the Nom Wah Tea Parlor bash included Bella Hadid, Constance Jablonski, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Alexa Chung, and Chloe Sevigny. See more Pajama Party snaps on Vogue.com
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
Located at 13 Doyers Street in New York’s Chinadown, Vogue.com writes about Nom Wah Tea Parlor :
Recently renovated, this quintessential Chinatown parlor claims to have been the first and features a dazzling array of authentic, made-to-order dim sum at bargain rates. Nom Wah is famous for its homemade lotus paste and red bean filling for its moon cake during the Moon Festival, otherwise known as Mid-Autumn Festival. Thanks to the online food delivery service, Caviar, you can even have some of the city’s best rice rolls delivered to your home.
China’s Fashion Influence
‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ opening tonight May 4, 2015 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art see Met website
Curated and organized by Andrew Bolton with production design by Nathan Crowley, ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ will spill beyond the the Costume Center and into the grand backdrop of the museum’s Chinese Galleries. In a first for contemporary fashion, the show juxtaposes rare artifacts, masterpieces of Chinese art and Chinese cinema with mostly Western designers like Poiret and Yves Saint Laurent who have been inspired by Chinese culture.
There’s a visceral pleasure in discovering, in the same gallery, a cobalt dragon wriggling across the swelling forms of both an exquisite fifteenth-century Ming storage jar and a strapless blue-and-white silk-satin evening dress by Roberto Cavalli. “At the Met, we can put modern art into a 5,000-year context,” says Maxwell K. Hearn, head of the museum’s Department of Asian Art, which collaborated with Bolton and the Costume Institute on the show, underwritten by Yahoo. “That’s one of the thrills for me.”
FB COO Sheryl Sandberg's Husband Dave Goldberg Dies At 47
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The tech world and FB users are stunned today to learn that Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has died at age 47.
The father-of-two ‘passed away suddenly’ on Friday night, according to a Facebook post by Robert Goldberg, which was shared by the social networking site’s CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
His cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
Dave Goldberg, Head of Web Survey Company and Half of a Silicon Valley Power Couple, Dies at 47 NY Times
Eye | The Clooneys | Amal Clooney Defends Ex Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed | 10 Luxury Maldives Resorts | George Clooney Stylist
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George Clooney Stylist
Like Kanye West taking a keen interest in his wife Kim Khardashian’s style, George Clooney is deeply involved in his wife Amal Clooney’s fashion choices, reports US Weekly and picked up by Elle.com.
Clooney is “very involved in selecting her looks … ‘He’ll watch her try on clothes and will say, ‘I like that. You should get it,’ or ‘No, not that,’” a source close to the actor told the mag.
“He Clooney) installed a runway, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and a crazy light system in their closet,” the source continued.”Amal can see every single angle and tell if her outfit is see-through!”
Amal Clooney Human Rights Lawyer
Amal Clooney arrived at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washing, DC on Thursday to press her case on behalf of imprisoned former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed. Clooney appeared earlier in the day at the National Press Club. In a statement, the NPC said that it’s legal team is preparing to “make public a filing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, urging it to find that Nasheed is being held in violation of international law.”
Clooney released an in-depth op ed in The Guardian this week.
Release Mohamed Nasheed — an innocent man and the Maldives’ great hope Amal Clooney for The Guardian
It may be famous for the pristine holiday beaches of its Indian Ocean coastline but the Maldives has taken a dark authoritarian turn. In 2008, the island nation became a democracy after Mohamed Nasheed was sworn in as president after the country’s first-ever free and fair elections. A charismatic leader, Nasheed introduced liberalising reforms at home, while calling for global action against climate change in an attempt to combat the rising sea levels that threaten to inundate the low-lying nation. His remarkable story is chronicled in the acclaimed documentary The Island President.
Seven years later, however, Nasheed is in prison, having been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for the crime of “terrorism” following a politically motivated show trial.
10 Best Luxury Resorts in the Maldives Touropia
Naladhu Resort Maldives
Perhaps the ultimate luxury destination,the Maldives has become a synonym for paradise whether it is for honeymooners, sun worshipers or scuba divers. Aside from the capital Male, there are no hotels in the Maldives, only resorts. Most resorts take up their own island, so the ratio of beach to guests must be one of the best in the world, writes Touropia
George Clooney Bartender
With Cinco de Mayo coming on May 5, George Clooney and close buddy Rande Gerber share an list of six cocktails to celebrate the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
“We meet at Café Habana Malibu and eat and drink Casamigos margaritas,” Clooney and Gerber said of their plans with equally famous wives Amal Clooney and Cindy Crawford. Note that George and Rande own the Casamigos tequila brand with their friend Michael Meldman.
The duo shares five variations on the margarita and one signature cocktial to Vogue.com readers. We share two.
Strawberry Basil Margarita
