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"Costume Art" was the Met Gala theme last night. Nichapat Suphap in custom Robert Wun referencing Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, Heidi Klum in custom Mike Marino as a veiled marble sculpture, and Janelle Monáe in wired, mossy Christian Siriano. We dove deeper on the annual event over on our Substack.

Alysa Liu signs with Louis Vuitton as the label’s latest ambassador. The 20-year-old Olympic gold medalist is known for her one-of-a-kind style and infectious smile, making her a perfect fit for Nicolas Ghesquière’s label.

Palantir is getting into fashion. The surveillance and defense AI company — known for its contracts with ICE and military targeting systems — just dropped a chore coat, designed after the French bleu de travail, alongside hoodies, tees, and a previous drop that drew Off-White comparisons. Critics are calling it “tastewashing.”

Disney is selling a $600 animatronic Grogu. The 1:1 scale figure runs on an internal network of motors and sensors, cycling through 250+ animations. There’s no denying it’d make for a great robot pet, but please make sure you can afford it.

Spotify goes anti-AI, less than a year after an AI rock band broke 1 million plays on the platform. The new “Verified by Spotify” badge requires 10K monthly listeners and a social presence. Which means artists without the badge are either AI or just super underground.

LA’s lost sex clubs are memorialized in Dean Sameshima’s 1995–97 series Wonderland, now showing at Soft Opening in London. The show captures bathhouse and club façades in Silver Lake with flat, clinical distance — no people, no signage, no signal of what’s inside. The less they show, the harder they are to ignore.