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Although the forecasts predicted torrential downpours, there was no
raining on Coach’s carnival last night. Guests at the brand’s annual
fund-raiser for (and on) the High Line enjoyed a balmy evening of
cocktails, contortionists, and dunk-the-hot-model games. The prizes? Not
giant teddy bears, but Coach accessories. The Coach Foundation also
announced a $5 million gift to help open the final undeveloped section of
the elevated railway: the High Line at the Rail Yards.
“In New York, when it’s that right temperature, when it’s not too muggy, it’s so nice to hang out outside,” Aziz Ansari told Style.com. “I just had my fortune told in Hong Kong, so I’ve gotta go check out the fortune-tellers here.” Olivia Thirlby hopped in line right behind him. The Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine was busy trying her hand at the dunk tank. “I really wouldn’t mind looking at this handsome gentleman all night, but then again, I would like to see him fall in the water.” Eventually, she enlisted the help of her husband, Abie Cohen.
At a quieter end of the party, Katie Holmes and Naomi Watts discussed how their kids would have loved a carnival like this. “There’s nothing like getting out for the festivities, but I think it’s just a bit too grown-up for the children,” Watts said. It suited her just fine.
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It might have been a rainy Monday, but with Kanye West on the docket—and his much-anticipated and, until now, rather closely guarded new album, Yeezus, on rotation—no amount of inclement weather could have kept the crowds from Milk Studios last night. Naturally, Milk’s loading dock, which served as the venue for the impromptu party, was packed to capacity. And the mood—energized, chaotic, and more than a little buzzed—peaked as West rapped alongside the songs from his forthcoming album.
“If you want to sell music, you have to make better music,” said West to the audience. “We’ve been squashed by the concept of opportunity, because there’s over 1,400 billionaires in the world, and seven black billionaires…I’m here as the son of a Black Panther and a son of the first black chair of the English department of Chicago State. I feel like I know who I am now,” he continued, concluding his introduction with, “I’ll let the music do all the talking; I don’t got shit else to say.”
And talk it did, with ten tracks, which included a series of Kanye and Daft Punk collaborations, a song the rapper did with Chief Keef and Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) titled “You Can’t Handle My Liquor,” and a haunting, standout Billie Holiday sampling.
Scott Campbell, Timbaland, Theophilus London, and a bevy of models, including Freja Beha Erichsen, turned out in force, dancing alongside Jay-Z and Beyoncé. The superstar couple set up camp directly to the left of the deejay booth, where Kanye was perched with his friends and producers all night.
“Simply put, West was my slave name. Yeezus is my god name,” explained the rapper before launching into a second playing of the moody, darkly political LP. “I’m going to play it back again, so if you all want to hear it again, y’all can stay, and if y’all got shit to do, y’all can do it. Right now.” Needless to say, the crowd stayed.
Yeezus comes out June 18 via Island Def Jam.
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An international crew of party people descended on Gstaad, Switzerland, for the third annual ASmallWorld event on Friday, taking over the ultra-swank Gstaad Palace for a weekend’s worth of festivities. Carey Mulligan, Jefferson Hack, Arizona Muse, Waris Ahluwalia, Mamie Gummer, and Teresa Missoni were in the mix, along with onetime majority shareholder Harvey Weinstein and the current chairman Patrick Liotard-Vogt. On the agenda: horse-drawn carriage rides, a fondue lunch, a black-tie gala, and outdoor soaks in a spa with up-close-and-personal views of the Swiss Alps.
ASmallWorld is a members-only club that’s grown to include 800,000 members since its 2004 launch. With new initiatives like a mobile app and monthly events for the site’s top 45 markets crossed-off her to-do list this year (both are part of efforts to rebrand the club in the travel space), CEO Sabine Heller was in the mood for celebrating. “We were always planning on throwing a party to relaunch and decided to have it in a place our members like to be, and to support a good cause. We just wanted to do it properly,” she said. The good cause in question was the Alzheimer’s Society; nearly $92,000 was raised for the charity. Tali Lennox won a pair of diamond Bucherer earrings at the Saturday night charity raffle, but everyone walked away happy. All who attended received business-class tickets to St. Kitts.
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There was nary a dry eye in the house after last night’s Calvin Klein-hosted screening of The Impossible at the Museum of Arts and Design. Based on a remarkable true story from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the drama follows a couple—played by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor—and their three children on a family vacation struck by disaster. The film was especially hard to watch for Petra Nemcova. The model clung to a tree for eight hours with a broken pelvis after the tsunami hit. “There’s this one scene where Naomi is drowning under the wave and being hit by all this glass and debris,” Nemcova told Style.com. “It was very authentic.”
Afterward, moviegoers made their way across town to the recently reopened Bill’s Food & Drink. Hanneli Mustaparta and Laure Heriard Dubreuil both felt a little partying was necessary before going home. Said Dubreuil: “I needed to come for a little warmth. If I went home right after seeing the film, I would have been depressed.” Poppy Delevingne said the best upper after a serious movie is a stiff vodka tonic, whereas Bryan Grey Yambao insisted on two glasses of wine. Seated at a booth in a quiet corner, Naomi Watts unwound, doing what she claims kept her emotionally strong through filming: chatting with the woman whose real-life tsunami survival story inspired the film, Maria Belon.
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Not even a natural disaster could prevent the annual Whitney Gala and Studio Party from taking place—Sandy might have delayed the festivities, but last night’s “Do Over” was every bit the philanthropic fête the original was expected to be. After announcing that the event had raised over $2.7 million for the museum, with a third of that going to relief for artists affected by the storm, chairman Leonard Lauder thanked co-chairs Allison Kanders, Amy Phelan, and Lizzie Tisch for essentially having to organize the event twice. Designer Pamella DeVos of Pamella Roland, Whitney board member and a sponsor of the evening, admitted the reschedule had left her a bit harried. “I live in Michigan with my family still. I’m only here part-time, so today I had a fashion show uptown and then a board meeting and now this, all on one day.”
After dinner, the uptown charity set was replaced by the late-nighters. Nate Lowman deejayed—”I actually did this in the nineties. Tonight I’m back on the turntables; nothing but vinyl tonight,” he said—while designers Thakoon Panichgul and Timo Weiland, with their pre-fall lines all wrapped up, let their hair down on the dance floor. “I’ve been coming here since I was 18,” said Weiland. “So many great memories.” And with pre-fall behind him, what can we expect for Fall 2013? “Peplum, but it’s a bit more gathered—I love how architectural it feels.”
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“I’m a little bit of a wuss,” said Elettra Wiedemann at last night’s Cinema Society, Hollywood Reporter, and Samsung Galaxy-hosted screening of Quentin Tarantino and the Weinstein Company’s new film Django Unchained. “So I feel like watching Tarantino films gives me my street cred.” If it’s street cred she was after, there was plenty of it to be had at the New York debut of the director’s gory new flick. The likes of Olivia Wilde, Uma Thurman, Sean Combs, and John Legend (who contributed to the film’s soundtrack) joined the cast and Tarantino to preview his latest project. Despite nearly getting trampled by an overzealous Leonardo DiCaprio stampede on the red carpet, Patti Smith described the movie as “awesome.”
We won’t give away the plot of the film, which follows a former slave (Jamie Foxx) and his bounty-hunting mentor (Christoph Waltz), but we will tell you that the movie sees Mr. DiCaprio take on his most villainous role to date—a ruthless slave owner named Calvin Candie. “I don’t always play a nice guy,” said the actor before heading into the screening, “but this character is probably the most disreputable, horrendous, narcissistic bastard I’ve ever read in my entire life. And when Quentin Tarantino gives you an opportunity to play something like that, you have to take it. He writes the best villains ever,” he added.
Despite the film’s heavy subject matter, the cast, Samuel L. Jackson reported, had a grand old time while filming in Louisiana. “We were always dancing and singing! We had a lot more fun than we thought we would.”
There was no shortage of fun at the after-party in the Standard Hotel’s Biergarten. “I loved Quentin’s imagery and the exaggeration. And the funny parts,” said Ellen von Unwerth, who knows a little something about using a camera herself. “Not so crazy about the violence, but that’s part of his thing, too. Half the time I was covering my eyes. And ears,” she admitted. “I thought it was perfect,” said Cameron Diaz. “I think you go to a Quentin Tarantino movie to be surprised. And we didn’t get anything less.”
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As anyone who got stuck in traffic on Atlantic Avenue outside of the newly erected Barclays Center in Brooklyn this weekend knows, the Rolling Stones are in town kicking off the U.S. leg of their “50 and Counting” arena tour. Mick and company will make appearances at Madison Square Garden’s Sandy relief show on Wednesday and at the Prudential Center in Newark on Thursday. But first came dinner at the Carlyle hotel last night to celebrate the debut scent from Jagger’s girlfriend, L’Wren Scott.
“L’Wren is always game for a new project,” Barneys CEO Mark Lee said of the designer. Scott is the first collaborator in what will be a full collection of Barneys New York Designer Fragrances, and apparently it took very little arm-twisting. “This is a really exciting dream come true for me,” she told the crowd, which in addition to Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood included Ryan McGinley, Daphne Guinness, and co-host Rachel Feinstein Currin and her husband John Currin, as well as latecomers in the form of Lorne Michaels and Martin Short. (“We were just across the street at the Portlandia premiere,” they revealed over a plate of frites, no steak.)
Earning her “hostess with the mostest” cred, Feinstein Currin was effusive about the new fragrance. “I’m wearing it right now,” she said of the chypre eau with the surprising absinthe top note, explaining that she’d come across the large bordeaux flacon in a glass case at the Stones’ after-party this weekend. “It’s very sexy,” she continued—a point on which her husband seemed in complete agreement as he took a deep whiff of his wife’s neck. “There is no minimalism with L’Wren,” Feinstein Currin concluded. “It’s all about pleasure and life.”
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