The story behind the red-carpet look.
One night last fall, J Balvin, the reggaeton rapper, shared a photo of the back of his bare neck. Deep red imprints formed a kind of collar as if someone had tried to choke the Colombian superstar with scalding hot chains.
In reality, Mr. Balvin had just come from his first Met Gala, at which he’d worn a cartoonishly large stack of brightly colored bejeweled necklaces for several hours.
“It really hurt,” Mr. Balvin said. “This time, I don’t even have one chain.”
This time, Mr. Balvin is trying something new. Instead of a tuxedo covered in a fantastical kaleidoscope of floral embellishments, he wore a couldn’t-be-more-classic
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