Anika Reed

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Met Gala 2025 red carpet recap: Rihanna pregnant, Diana Ross, more highlights

1 week ago | desertsun.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK – It's fashion's biggest night at the Met Gala. The annual event returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, the first Monday in May. This year's Met ball, an invite-only event overflowing with A-list talent, celebrated the museum's Costume Institute and its spring exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. The exhibit – and the night's dress code, "Tailored for You" – highlighted Black dandyism and the midnight blue carpet was overflowing with Black excellence all night.
Met Gala 2025: Live updates from fashion's biggest night

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK – It's fashion's biggest night at the Met Gala. The annual Met Gala returns for 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first Monday in May. This year's Met ball, an invite-only event overflowing with A-list talent, will help fund and correspond with the museum's Costume Institute and its spring exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. The exhibit – and the night's dress code, "Tailored for You" – will highlight Black dandyism.
Diddy could have ruled Met Gala 2025. Instead, he’s awaiting his sex-crimes trial.

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK – Screams erupted from Fifth Avenue: Sean "Diddy" Combs had arrived. At around 8 p.m. on the first Monday in May, Diddy ascended the famed steps of the Met Gala red carpet, draped in a black puffer cape atop a black motorcycle suit jacket embroidered with black pearls. The custom Sean Jean cape, adorned with black camellias, was a nod to fellow controversial fashion figure Karl Lagerfeld, to whom the year's event paid tribute.
Diddy could have ruled Met Gala 2025. Instead, he’s awaiting his sex-crimes trial.

1 week ago | pal-item.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK – Screams erupted from Fifth Avenue: Sean "Diddy" Combs had arrived. At around 8 p.m. on the first Monday in May, Diddy ascended the famed steps of the Met Gala red carpet, draped in a black puffer cape atop a black motorcycle suit jacket embroidered with black pearls. The custom Sean Jean cape, adorned with black camellias, was a nod to fellow controversial fashion figure Karl Lagerfeld, to whom the year's event paid tribute.
Netflix star Penn Badgley on workout, morning routine, perfect NYC day

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

In USA TODAY’s The Essentials, celebrities share what fuels their lives, whether it's at home, on set or on the road. Penn Badgley is waving farewell to Joe Goldberg and closing the chapter on his Netflix leading man. The "You" and former "Gossip Girl" star, 38, is an open book (pun most definitely intended), although he reads as more of a spiritual text than his onscreen alter ego's crime thriller.
'Summer House' star Amanda Batula on mental health, electrolytes and 'The Pitt'

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

In USA TODAY’s The Essentials, celebrities share what fuels their lives, whether it's at home, on set or on the road. NEW YORK – Summer should be fun, and "Summer House" star Amanda Batula is making sure of that. The Bravo reality TV star, along with husband Kyle Cooke, has spent the last nine seasons showcasing the life of a share house in the Hamptons, bonding and partying with friends and housemates. This year, Batula is stepping into her power more than ever.
In the backseat with Penn Badgley: With 'You,' 'Gossip Girl' in the rearview, what's next

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK – Penn Badgley is hoping something exciting will happen. Speeding down Manhattan's West Side Highway in an Uber, he wonders aloud whether a disastrous occurrence – perhaps breaking down on the side of the road? – would make this interview more interesting. If imagination took hold and Badgley's fictional murderer Joe Goldberg were the version of him in the car, that deviously wishful thinking might add nerves to the mix.
Diddy's star-studded parties were cultural extravaganzas: Inside the White Party

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Marco della Cava |Anika Reed

Once upon a time, Sean "Diddy" Combs was on top of the world. The date was July 4, 2004, and the occasion was the rapper-turned-entrepreneur's seventh annual White Party, an ultra-exclusive affair held in the Hamptons at his posh Long Island, New York, mansion. A who's who of A-listers, from Aretha Franklin and Justin Bieber to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, appeared bedecked only in white, eager to be star players in the summer's zeitgeist-defining spectacle.
Anne Hathaway joins A-listers front row at Ralph Lauren fashion show

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Anika Reed

NEW YORK — Ralph Lauren is going romantic. And in true fashion, the designer's runway show in downtown Manhattan Thursday afternoon brought out all the biggest celebs, from actresses Anne Hathaway and Sadie Sink to country music star Kacey Musgraves. The fall/winter 2025 collection, the designer's first outing since his starry and extravagant Hamptons showcase just before New York Fashion Week's September kickoff, was an off-calendar show that packed just as much star power as its predecessor.
Anne Hathaway, Sadie Sink, more stun at Ralph Lauren fashion show: Photos

3 weeks ago | shelbystar.com | Anika Reed

Anika ReedIn true fashion, Ralph Lauren's fall/winter 2025 runway show brought out all the biggest celebs. From Anne Hathaway to Sadie Sink and Kacey Musgraves, scroll to see the A-listers who graced the front row and a look at the romantic new collection. From left: Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Naomi Watts attend the Ralph Lauren fall/winter 2025 fashion show on April 17, 2025, in New York.