The Kardashian-Jenners owe a great debt to the Vanderbilts and other Robber Barons depicted in Julian Fellowes’s latest period drama.

The setting for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is 1880s New York, nearly half a century before zippers would appear on garments. And yet there they are, running up the backs of women’s gowns in Season 2, suggesting the show’s budget is no match for the illusion it so desperately hopes to peddle. You know it’s bad when a series preoccupied with opulence can’t even deliver when it comes to the costumes. ...

Cynthia Nixon as Ada Brook & Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age (2022)

The fictional tycoons in Julian Fellowes’s ‘The Gilded Age’ have descended upon Newport. Here’s how the real life town became high society by the sea.

Months after Julian Fellowes debuted a lavish new period drama about the era, the 2022 Met Gala theme is looking to the glitter and romance of Gilded Age New York