gala

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The Cannes Film Festival wraps up today after two weeks of marathon screenings, black-tie gala premieres and beach parties.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Keen-eyed fashion historians noticed that the late British singer and actor Jane Birkin caused a stir by wearing an almost identical dress to a Paris gala in 1969 with her then-partner Serge Gainsbourg.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

You don’t even have Tom Cruise rappelling in for a “Mission: Impossible” gala.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

The invitation-only gala, which benefits The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, began in 1948 as a fundraiser that marked the Institute’s annual spring fashion exhibition and was attended primarily by high-society museum patrons.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

In 1917, just before Christmas, she was invited to take part in a gala concert at the Georgia State Industrial College, a black college in Savannah.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman