Besides YouTube, teens must learn the carefully choreographed dances for each ball’s opening ceremony from places like the Elmayer Dance School, which has been training dancers since 1919.

I started to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning. Out came a fur hat the size of a mini-fridge and a leather thong so abbreviated that it was essentially a belt. Pants sat so low that butt ...

Rihanna arrived wearing a wide-brimmed blue fur hat with a matching archival Christian Lacroix wrap coat pulled over a black corset with shoulder-length leather gloves and a pair of pointed toe ...