— Noam Galai/GC Images/Getty Images While we wait expectantly for Cynthia Erivo to grace the silver screen as Elphaba in the film adaptation of Wicked (which still doesn’t come out until November 2024), we can’t help but notice that her beauty and fashion choices have taken a turn for the greener in the past few months.Erivo has never been one to...

— The Cobrasnake for Nylon If you’ve been following along today on NYLON, you’ll probably notice that we’ve gone ham on the Met Gala. There are the afterparty looks — and an afterparty report in which we observe Usher being entranced by card tricks. There are Kelsea Ballerini and Quannah Chasinghorse’s getting-ready diaries. And now, there are (more)...

— BFA On any other day of the year, the Upper East Side would have been fully asleep for two hours by now. But just before midnight on the first Monday in May, there’s still some electricity flowing as celebrities shift gears from the refined elegance of the Met Gala to the discombobulated debauchery of the afters. What’s interesting is that while...

— OK McCausland At 2 p.m. the afternoon of the Met Gala, Kelsea Ballerini is running perfectly on time. In fact, she’s ahead of schedule. “Hey friend!” she greets me at 1:59 p.m. “Happy Met Monday!”My first question — “how are you feeling?” — immediately goes out the window. Ballerini, clearly, is feeling good. “I feel like it's Christmas,” she says....

— Cobrasnake Between the Met Gala red carpet and the after-parties, one thing must happen: The guests have to get changed... somewhere.That’s why, while other reporters were trying to chase down Mercedes sprinter vans for a glimpse of some actor or singer, I was staked out at the Mark Hotel on May 6. The Mark functions as a home base where many out-of-towners...

— Samuel Hess In 2023, Jessica Pratt experienced a brushing with the pop spotlight when Troye Sivan sampled her voice on Something To Give Each Other. The occasion suddenly brought her critic-beloved, ‘60s-mining folk songs to the forefront, but it didn’t changed her course; instead, she doubles down on her idiosyncratic sound on her fourth studio...