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We know this has nothing to do with the Met Ball and we hope you can forgive us, but we thought you’d like to know that Lara Stone is officially a mom. Stone and her hubbie David Walliams welcomed a baby boy to the world on Sunday. No word on the name yet, but we’ll keep you posted. Congrats, loves!

The Met Ball wasn’t the only game in town last night…Logo TV and XL hosted a viewing party for the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and apparently the punk theme made its way to 42nd Street. Penny Tration (seriously!) showed up in a wig that’s uncannily similar to the wigs we saw yesterday at the exhibition. If there’s a headless mannequin at a certain Fifth Avenue museum, we know who to call…

After months, or really, nearly a year’s worth of anticipation since last year’s delightful fashion circus that is the Met Ball, the big night has come and gone. So, what did everyone wear to this year’s PUNK: Chaos to Couture-themed Costume Institute gala? Without further ado…

Did we ever suspect that Madonna would turn up to the Met Ball in a gown? As if… Reminding the world that she is Madonna, the iconic singer showed up wearing a black Katy Perry meets Anna Wintour wig, and showed off those legs. Riccardro Tisci made a custom made Givenchy Haute Couture look for Madge that a PR release reveals is a “black and grey tartan jacket …

Anna Wintour and her gorgeous daughter Bee Shaffer were early arrivals at the Met Ball tonight and didn’t get as punky as we had dreamed. The belle of the ball showed up wearing a printed (shocking!) Chanel number from their Spring 2013 collection. We were really hoping she’d arrive with a mohawk, but alas…

We can always count on Diane von Furstenberg to look sublime, but she went the extra mile tonight for the Met Ball. We. Love. The. Hair.

With everybody in town for the Met Ball tonight, boys and girls spent the weekend warming up with fashion bashes all over town. Net-A-Porter threw a cocktail party on Saturday night at new Village haute spot Omar’s that brought out Karolina Kurkova, Prabal Gurung, Natalie Massenet, Olivier Rousteing, Miranda Kerr, Lucy Yeomans, Stacey Bendet…

Nobody’s more punk than Punky Brewster, so we pulled a few strings and got a sneak peek at her Met Ball look for Monday’s opening of “Punk: Chaos to Couture”. Lovely, non? Brewster is breaking all the punk rules and going for a formal look in a vintage Dior Couture gown that was first red carpeted by another childhood star, Ashley Olsen, at the Met’s 2011 McQueen opening.

Condé Nast Entertainment unfurled its second phase of video channels based on its toniest newsstand titles yesterday at a Newfront presentation, first targeting the rather disparate crowds of fashionettes and tech titans. The newest spate of glossies to go the original programming route include Vogue, which will bow in video form next Wednesday, and Wired, which will unroll a channel on May 15.

The Hamptons season doesn’t kick off for a few more weeks, the Met Ball hubbub is mere days away, and there’s a brief lull in the springtime music festival circuit (next up, Governor’s Ball, anyone? Or for the more rugged among us, Bonnaroo, if you dare?). What’s a chicette in dire need of a break from the daily grind pounding New York pavement to do? A Vegas jaunt, perhaps…Sure, the temps ratchet up to the mid-90s during the day, but all the better for some mandatory poolside lounging (and definitely better than the way-past-100 degree climes that await come summer). For a hearty dose of party avec the R&R factor, the Hard Rock Hotel is now two weeks into its Sunday pool rager, Rehab, which has been turning a typically lazy and recoup-centric day into an arguably bigger bash than the eve(s) before it.