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We’ve Got the Look
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The Best of Basel
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For Love of Country
How to best promote a crew of young London designers relatively unknown on this side of the pond? Ask Emma Watson, a.k.a. Harry Potter’s Hermione, a.k.a. the highest-grossing actress of the last decade, to host a party. Watson was in town for just one night on her way home to the U.K. from Brown University for a week of spring break. “I can be fairly anonymous in Providence,” she told us. Not a chance of that on Houston and the Bowery outside of Pulino’s, where fans who had gotten wind of the star’s appearance there waited with camera phones in hand to meet her.
Inside Keith McNally’s new pizzeria, the flashbulbs kept on popping, as Watson, who wore a dress by Christopher Kane, posed with Vogue‘s Anna Wintour and Sarah Mower, and models like Constance Jablonski, Taryn Davidson, and Ajak Deng lined up beside their designer dates. Fabiola Beracasa reported that she had ventured into the Vogue closet alongside “12 six-foot-tall Amazon models” to find the Erdem Moralioglu dress she was wearing. “I hope he sees me in it and sends me his whole collection,” she joked.
The Londoners—minus Kane and Moralioglu, both of whom have already “emerged”—had spent the last three days at the Soho Grand penthouse showing off their Fall collections to buyers and press, and by the sounds of it, some weren’t quite ready to go home. Peter Pilotto, who was the guest of honor at a dinner thrown by Opening Ceremony at the Jane the night before, said, “Everything looks a little bit better here.”
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Fly Zone
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Clothes Hangar
This year’s Fashion Cares fundraiser represented a changing of the guard, so to speak, with retailer Jeffrey Kalinsky‘s annual benefit for New York AIDS charities going down not in some run-of-the-mill event space but aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid, the aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 and now moored on Manhattan’s west side, serving as a museum.
Despite pouring rain, more than 1,200 guests turned out to bid on auction items (Equinox gym memberships, Broadway tickets, a plastic surgery “transformation package”) and take in a multi-designer runway show. As usual, the swimwear went over quite well.
Given the location, more than a few of the evening’s attendees were feeling a military vibe—in particular Kalinsky, who’s been sporting a jarhead cut since December. “I was hanging out in Charleston a lot, and there’s a military college there. I kept seeing cadets, and I was like, ‘Oh, I think I want to do that,’ ” the South Carolina native explained. Peter Som, meanwhile, expressed concern about the hangar deck’s apparent lack of air-conditioning. “What if a sailor’s curls start coming out?”
The evening’s roll call wasn’t all gents, though. Sessilee Lopez, Hana Soukupova, and Candice Swanepoel somehow managed to fold their endless legs into three adjacent front-row seats. “It was amazing,” Swanepoel said on her way out, adding that she hadn’t cast so much as a glance at the historic fighter planes on display. “As a girl, I’m not too interested in that.”
—Darrell Hartman Continue reading