Celebrities

February 6, 2020

Kim Kardashian Has Learned Restraint

LOS ANGELES — When Kim Kardashian West says it, she’s not being funny. She doesn’t smile. She is professional and sincere, and that sincerity is worth […]
January 9, 2020

Losing Prince Harry and Meghan, and (Potentially) Billions of Pounds

LONDON — The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018, watched by a television audience of almost two billion viewers worldwide, was heralded […]
January 5, 2020

Pete Buttigieg and the One Percent

At an annual charity fund-raiser in October, Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, shared a table with the designer Michael Kors and Pete Buttigieg, then the […]
December 20, 2019

Tiffany Haddish Puts the ‘X’ in Christmas Cookies

“I’m about to have a sugar rush, yo,” Tiffany Haddish said. On a silver-gray Sunday morning, Ms. Haddish, the irrepressible star of the movie “Girls Trip” […]
December 14, 2019

Sophia Hutchins Comes Clean About ‘Best Friend’ Caitlyn Jenner

Keeping up with the new besties in the Kardashian-Jenner entertainment complex can be a full-time job. But even in their social media panopticon, Sophia Hutchins stands […]
November 25, 2019

When Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star

Celebrity culture, in the first decade of this century, took the form of a kind of misogynistic death cult. Somewhere in Hollywood, Lindsay Lohan was falling […]
November 19, 2019

The Metaphysics of Kylie Cosmetics Being Sold to Coty

On Monday, Kylie Jenner sold 51 percent of her cosmetics and skin care brand to Coty for $600 million, a price tag that values the enterprise […]
February 6, 2018

They Only Look Casual

Advertisement There she goes, strutting that strut. Her outfit is arranged just so. She’s got the bag with the umpteen-person wait list, not yet available in […]
January 26, 2018

Encounters: Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too.

Advertisement Lisa Vanderpump doesn’t merely walk. She strides, almost gallops. She did so one afternoon through the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan (staying […]
January 5, 2018

The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest

Advertisement A week or so after the 2016 presidential election, the actress Lizzy Caplan arrived in London for the premiere of her “Allied,” a Robert Zemeckis […]