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W.E. Want More Madge!
Luckily, your Daily got just that at last night's second Cinema Society screening of W.E. at the Ziegfeld. This time, The Cinema Society paired up with the diamond purveyors at Forevermark for a second go at premiering Madonna's directorial debut, followed by a bash at the Boom Boom Room (do Vita Coco cocktails make for a lesser hangover? The jury's out on that one....).
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On a Ledge of Acme
The best way to unwind after taking in a high-octane flick like last night's Man on a Ledge screening, hosted by the Cinema Society, Gilt Man, and Grey Goose? Packing into a buzzy (and delicious) newest addition to Jones Street's ever-expanding spate of restos at the reopened Acme to fete the film and get the weekend started a tad early. Migrating from the screening at The Tribeca Grand, a lively mishmosh of co-stars, like Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Banks, Sam Worthington, and Anthony Mackie, mingled with the likes of a silver-clad, luminescent Hilary Rhoda, Olivier Theyskens, restauranteur Geoffrey Zakarian, Anthony Mackie, Gregg Bello, InStyle's Hal Rubinstein, and Charlotte Ronson, pressed cheek-to-cheek as the champagne refills flowed (and, in some cases, splashed). Among those making it a two-night Cinema Society affair, besides your dear Daily? Debbie Harry, Amy Sacco, and Banks, among others. Wheels of cured salmon propped atop cucumber provided a light bite for some, while a hearty spread of chicified soul fare fed hungry partyhoppers and/or those indulging in a few two many elderflower-tinged Fizz concoctions. For the latter, Gilt-y as charged.
ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV
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Haywire Antics on the LES
Before the crunch time of NYFW descends on the city's fashion denizens, a slew of them turned out alongside a coterie of Hollywood heavies and the always-lovely sprinkling of socials for the a screening of Haywire, hosted by the Cinema Society and BlackBerry Bold. The movie's director, Steven Soderbergh, turned out alongside producer Greg Jacobs and co-stars Ewan McGregor and martial arts maven Gina Carano for a screening at Landmark Sunshine Cinema, joined by a fashion flock of Calvin Klein, Rachel Roy, and Reed Krakoff avec wife Delphine. Vogue, Vanity Fair, and W were aptly represented in the fray, thanks to the media trifecta of Grace Coddington, Graydon Carter, and Stefano Tonchi on the premises.
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The Brotherhood of Man
When The Daily went to The Darby...Fashion and Broadway made a rare appearance together at the haute spot last night to celebrate Darren Criss' Great White Way debut in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Criss replaced Daniel Radcliffe last week as corporate climb machine J. Pierrepont Finch in the hit revival that first appeared on Broadway in 1961. Calvin Klein Collection, along with co-hosts Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Lily Rabe, Andrew Rannells and Jordan Roth, welcomed him to town Glee-style with live music performed by Cole Ramstad and The China Town Allstars, and an eclectic crowd that included Hamish Bowles, Chris Benz, Mo Rocca, Mickey Boardman, Aaron Hicklin, Susan Sarandon, Christian Campbell, Ann Dexter-Jones, Adam Dugas, Jeremy Kost, Casey Spooner, Heidi Mount, William Ivey Long, Amy Astley, Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells & Nikki James, and naturally the CK power PR department Malcolm Carfrae, Jennifer Crawford, Chris Martinelli and Antoine Phillips. (The aforementioned will likely be pleased if we told you they are live streaming their men's show in Milan this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. New York time on Calvin Klein TV.)
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Close Encounters
Leave it to Glenn Close to create a frenzy on 5th Ave. The five-time Academy Award nominee hit up MoMA last night with her co-star Mia Wasikowska for the Cinema Society and Giorgio Armani screening of their latest Oscar-hyped flick, Albert Nobbs, in which Close portrays a woman masquerading as a man to survive 19th century Ireland.
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Chic Eats with Naeem Khan
What does it take to luxuriate in 54 smashing Naeem Khan looks, besides a damn good seat at his twice-yearly shows at Lincoln Center? On Thursday, a ticket to Mt. Sinai's annual Women's Health Luncheon was all. The annual fundraiser, which always boasts its very own fashion show, was especially sceney this year thanks to Khan. "There are a lot of well-heeled women in this room," said Hilary Gumbel, surveying the crowd of both Khan superfans and potential clients. Blair Husain, Tamar Braxton, and Marcia Mishaan were just a few who enjoyed the chicken salad.
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Tod's Book Bash
Tod's boutique on Madison Avenue was bustling with a flurry of femmes Tuesday for a petite luncheon feting Julianne Moore's third kiddie tome, Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever. While the flame-haired actress, garbed in head-to-toe Derek Lam, manned the signing table front and center, hosts Cristina Cuomo, Melanie Charlton Fascitelli, Celerie Kemble, Lauren Santo Domingo, and Tod's creative director Derek Lam sipped steaming cinnamon apple cider and mingled with an haute guest list, including Sally Singer, Robbie Myers, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Olivia Chantecaille, Mia Moretti, Carey Lowell, Lucy Sykes, and Jamie Tisch. On the menu? Tiny potato with caviar and crème fraiche, chilled lobster with tomato basil ‘cocktail’ sauce on brioche toast, beef carpaccio on fennel flatbread crisps with truffle oil, strawberry buttercream macarons, cheesecake brownies, and bite-size lemon squares.
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Viva Valentino
Sometimes, you gotta wonder if Valentino Garavani just might be New York's most legendary designer. Despite the fact that the man isn't even officially designing anymore—also, he's Italian, a downright Roman legend—but he manages to draw an A-list crowd all the way down/up to Barry Diller's IAC headquarters to toast his Virtual Museum. Not like he doesn't deserve accolades: it's just...impressive, is all. Sarah Jessica Parker, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes—whose new show, Homeland, is required viewing, just trust—were only among a few of the BFA fodder who exited chauffered sedans into a throng of red umbrellas.
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Veuve-soaked New Yorkers with Feed Bags
Another rainy night, another list of mandatory drop-ins for the social set. Starting uptown: The Feed event at J.McLaughlin, where Sharon Bush and Lauren Bush Lauren unveiled the dapper bears dressed by designers like Milly by Michelle Smith, Rachel Roy, and Vena Cava. "We asked ten designers, and they all said yes!" said Mrs. Bush. But no time for mingling—next up was the Solange Azagury-Partridge boutique on Madison, which was hosting an shopping event for New Yorkers for Children hosted by Julie Macklowe, Lydia Fenet et al. And then across-ish the street to Gucci, where the Society of MSKCC threw (another) cocktail to ramp up for the annual Spring Ball. That event's co-chairs Tory Burch, Jamie Tisch, and Caryn Zucker drew their friends—Yaz Hernandez, Dr. Lisa Airan, Jamee Gregory, and the like—for champagne, fruit-filled meringue moments, and crab cakes. (Or were the crab cakes at J.McLaughlin?)
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Madison Avenue Madness: An Evening of Party Hopping
Mon dieu! A barrage of rain kept most New Yorkers indoors on Wednesday evening, but nothing could keep the UES' Most Social from flocking to Madison Avenue, whose every storefront was illuminated and guarded with a clipboard-wielder. It's shopping season, people! First up: Barneys New York, for its upteenth party in December alone. Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson (her onetime paramour, ensemble again)? feted Frédéric Malle's new book, On Perfume Making. He celebrated the tome in Paris just days ago with an event at his rue du Mont-Thabor store attended by Ines de la Fressange and BHL.) Charlotte Sarkozy, Carolina Irving, Chiara Clemente, and surely others whose prenom begins with "C" (Oh! Carolina Herrera, too!) hit Chelsea Passage for cocktails and pondering of that universal question: What, exactly, does it take to look as great as Uma? Surely, it's more than fragrance...
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