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Inside the Hottest Met Gala Afterparties

As always, the Met Gala's afterparty circuit stretched across Manhattan, from the Upper East Side to downtown, well into the early hours of the morning. Here's what you missed.

If Ragtime‘s Joshua Henry, nominated for a Tony Award just this morning, lit the fuse at the Met Gala’s start with his gospel-inspired, fever-pitched rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” Jon Batiste (who wore an homage to American portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks to the main event) blew the roof off The Carlyle with his multi-instrumental set at the Cartier Met Gala afterparty at the swanky Bemelmans Bar, accompanied by a symphony of clinking martini glasses wielded by a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. Spotted on the tables next to Panthère de Cartier trinket trays were one-night-only white linen cocktail napkins embroidered with “Behelmans Bar x Cartier” in golden thread.

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