Kate The Great

The hundreds who turned out for Kate Moss at Topshop last night blended in so artfully with the hordes of commuters trying to get home on the first day of London's Tube strike that there were probably thousands of people jamming Oxford Circus by the time Moss took to a temporary structure that elevated her over the throng. She could have been a 21st-century Evita greeting her adoring public. Just like Sra. Perón, there is something of the secular saint about Kate. Or fashion saint, at the very least. Her appearance marked the debut of her new collection for Topshop. On its first day in store, the pieces most glamorously redolent of Saint Kate (among them, a fringed jacket and a beaded dress, worn later in the evening by Sienna Miller ) were the ones that sold out first. They were also among the most expensive. No wonder Topshop's owner, Philip Green , was in such a good mood when he arrived at the Connaught for dinner after the store event, by which time Moss, ever the best advertisement for her own product, had changed from a pantsuit with a gold pinstripe into a fringed, beaded bolero over a column of silvery, bias-cut slink that would have done her old mate John Galliano proud.



As these things go, dinner really was nearest and dearest—family and old friends like Naomi Campbell , Fran Cutler, Jaime Winstone, Elizabeth Saltzman , André Balazs , Katy England , and Bobby Gillespie . The oldest might have been 76-year-old legend of the lens David Bailey , sat to one side of Moss, with Stella McCartney next to him. But on Moss' other side were the newer friends, the London girls who are the Spawn of Kate: Suki Waterhouse , Cara Delevingne … (Moss clearly feels protective. She and Delevingne were working on a shoot together when one of the grips offered to swap his top with Delevingne's. Fortunately, Mother Moss was there to weigh in as the firm voice of reason: "No, we won't be taking our top off and giving it to the grip.")



Most intriguing overheard: Pat McGrath wondering if she could get away with her signature headband rather than a hat when she goes to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to receive her MBE from the queen. Sarah Mower, who's already been there, done that, said she could. But "Pat in a Hat"? Surely that's the sort of picture Instagram was invented for.

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Hot on the heels of a star-studded gala for its 35th anniversary , MOCA was celebrating again on Friday night as art patrons Maria and Bill Bell and Suzanne and David Johnson hosted an intimate dinner at Musso & Frank for Francesco Vezzoli and his new exhibit, Cinema Vezzoli. Presented by YOOX (the website is hosting an exclusive live-stream tour of the show by Vezzoli and new museum director Philippe Vergne ), the exhibit showcases Vezzoli's passion for analyzing the fame-driven world in which we live. "You can't ignore what's going on with that guy, he's always got a story to tell," Band of Outsiders' Scott Sternberg said of Vezzoli. "I like that he talks about it and he's provocative." And as for his crossover appeal? "The fashion world is obviously engaged because there's a sense of style in what he does," Sternberg added.



Life seemed to mimic art as both high- and pop-culture-minded guests mingled together at the iconic Hollywood restaurant. Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy spent time talking to Monique Péan , while Olivier Zahm worked a room that included China Chow and Liz Goldwyn . Eli Broad took a seat at the restaurant's famed mahogany bar. Costume designer and stylist B. Akerlund identified with Vezzoli's singular works. "I just want to be who I am. To me, fashion is art, so art is fashion."



On Saturday, The Foundation for Living Beauty partnered with Lanvin for its third annual fashion fundraiser. Foundation founder Amie Petersen-Satchu's home was transformed into an exclusive pop-up boutique for the occasion, and guests including Emma Roberts and Emmy Rossum shopped the Lanvin wares. "Nights like tonight are always a pretty easy decision," Jennifer Morrison told Style.com. Proceeds from the sale benefitted the organization's mission of supporting, educating, uplifting, and empowering women living with cancer, and the evening also included a low-key presentation of Alber Elbaz's Pre-Fall collection for the label. "It's nice because fashion shows are usually so tense and it's drama when the lights go down," Rashida Jones said. "It feels more interactive here." Olivia Munn found the goings-on equally refreshing. "It's not like a normal Hollywood party where everyone is sizing people up," she said, before explaining how she and stylist Micaela Erlanger chose her Lanvin look for the night. "She's in New York and I'm in L.A., so we FaceTimed so I could try on each look for her."

—Alexis Brunswick

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Last night in New York, Gia Coppola unveiled her debut feature film, Palo Alto, based on James Franco 's book of short stories about growing up in the California suburb. The film, starring Franco and Emma Roberts , wasn't the only thing that Coppola (the niece of Sofia and granddaughter of Francis) revealed at the Tribeca Film Festival event.



"I had never watched The Godfather until recently—no one in my family would watch it with me because they have all seen it so many times," said the director of her grandpa's iconic movie, as she made her way down the red carpet at SVA Theatre on West 23rd Street. "I finally just watched it with James [Franco], and we started watching at, like, 11 p.m. at night, so he was, like, hitting me to stay awake. But it's a great film," she told Style.com.



No one needed help staying alert during last night's screening of her coming-of-age tale. The film, a story about the universal emotions involved with being young and growing up, prompted everyone to think about their high school days. (Franco, however, left the screening early for his Of Mice and Men evening show.) "I was homeschooled, so I was kind of mellow and cool," said Roberts. "I just tried to get through unscathed."



Afterward, the crowd, including Zac Posen , Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor , and Gina Gershon , regrouped at Up & Down bar, where the party continued with a performance by the movie's composer, Dev Hynes. Coppola arrived with her high-school-appropriate party shoes in hand—Converse high-tops, of course.



Meanwhile in Soho, new clothes means new context. Such was the case, at least, at the Dior Homme store, which the brand has just adapted with modular racks and shelves for the arrival of designer Kris Van Assche 's Autumn 2014 collection. Conceived by Parisian duo M/M, the one-month setup incorporates cylindrical standing lamps (twenty-six in all, each smeared with a different letter of the alphabet) and gallery-esque lighting effects, a fitting complement to a collection inspired by Van Assche's art-student days in Antwerp.



"They used to be pre-deliveries of the main collections, and it's really important to insist on the fact that they are no longer that," Van Assche said of the merchandise. "They're really a different story, and so we tell it in a different way."



The party moved to Acme, where the likes of Shala Monroque and Peter Brant Jr. joined. Brant clacked the metal fingertip covers he was wearing, insisting they weren't purely decorative. "I had an accident with my fingernails," he said.



Like the installation, Van Assche's stay was a fleeting one. He'd be on a plane less than twenty-four hours later. "All this is fun, talking about collections that are finished," he said. "But I need to get back to work."

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Eyes on the Prizes

Not that the Tribeca Film Festival needs an extra dose of glamour. But industry types like Matthew Modine have come to appreciate the star-studded dinner that a certain French house throws every year. "This feels like a Chanel party because it's a lot of cool people," the actor and short-film director noted last night, scanning Balthazar's model-packed dining room for the likes of Ron Howard , Rupert Friend , and Sophia Loren .



The latter, who'd arrived early, was being solicitously attended to by festival cofounder Robert De Niro . The official guests of honor, though, were the artists who'd donated works of theirs as festival prizes—one lucky filmmaker, for example, will be taking home a Modine C-print of Stanley Kubrick's director's chair.



Waiters pushed through with fruits de mer and steak frites. Mickey Sumner, who's serving on the festival jury for Best New Narrative Director, joined a table with Harley Viera-Newton and Lily Aldridge . Cat Power was seated with fellow chanteuse Sophie Auster , who had improvised a safety-pin fix for her Chanel suspenders.



Tory Burch has been working on a book to be released this fall and was happy to have a break. "This is the perfect environment," the designer decided. "Big, open, lots of mirrors, and the lighting is pretty good"—something the movie people, no doubt, appreciated as much as the fashionistas.

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The spring gala season can be a long march for the social set, one black-tie gala after another, but every year New Yorkers for Children's Fool's Fête provides a bit of relief: The dresses are shorter, the colors are brighter, the evening's program is by comparison more concise, and the thirty-sixth-floor ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental gives a great view of Central Park's just-bloomed trees.



It was just the occasion for which philanthropist Gillian Miniter had been saving her Ralph Rucci sequin cocktail dress: "Usually Ralph is pretty covered up, but not this one—va-va-voom!" Leandra Medine dramatically introduced her Max Mara dress, "Do note the cascade of orchids down my left breast."



The crowd last night did feel that NYFC's cause was one worth dressing up for—and worth fighting for, apparently, as two women went head-to-head over some handbags in the silent auction. Said one bidder: "If she thinks she's walking away with that Prada, she's the real fool tonight."



After the dust had settled, guests took their seats for dinner. The keynote speaker was a student recipient of the organization's scholarships, telling the room that, "In eighth grade I was valedictorian, and I had to give a speech to a huge crowd. But tonight I'm a bit more nervous…I never thought I would belong in such an elegant crowd as this." When the student announced that she will be graduating this year from John Jay College of Criminal Justice because of NYFC's generosity, the room erupted in applause. Emma Roberts told Style.com: "All kids deserve a fair shot. Everybody needs that, no matter who you are."

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Game, Set, Match

How do you persuade the world's top two tennis players to take to the court outside their hectic schedules? It's easy when you're Natalia Vodianova . The persuasive supermodel and philanthropist invited a group of her closest friends and supporters of her charity, the Naked Heart Foundation, to witness a private match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the NHF on Saturday. Due to injury, Djokovic had to sit out at the last minute, which was unfortunate because he gave Vodianova the idea in the first place.



The story began at last July's Love Ball, when the current world No. 2 Djokovic bid on a lot for a tennis lesson with the world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, much to the room's delight. "The bidding had started to stagnate around 70,000 euros, but then suddenly Novak stood up and shouted, '100,000!'" Vodianova remembered. "It was a magical moment. Everyone just screamed with surprise." His bid prompted auctioneer James Corden to propose turning the match into doubles, which led to the winning bid from Alexander Medvedev, commissioner of the Kontinental Hockey League, and, nine months later, to a tennis match and a celebratory cocktail at the palatial home of the Lavazza family, high in the hills above Monaco.



Nadal took his rival's move in good humor. "I thought it was great when I heard he bid for it! It was good fun, and I'm very happy to support Natalia and her foundation." But the road to glory isn't always smooth, as any tennis champ will tell you. "Last night I began to have a very bad feeling," said a pregnant Vodianova—so pregnant, in fact, that her doctor had made the journey from Paris with her in case of emergency. "You know that feeling where something is badly wrong? And then I got a call early in the morning, saying that Novak had injured himself. Of course I had a small panic attack! And I was absolutely heartbroken by it, but then this morning we found a very noble replacement for Novak in Mikhail Youzhny."



Youzhny and Medvedev vied against Nadal and a friend of Medvedev's for an hour, to applause from guests including Princess Charlene of Monaco , Pierre Casiraghi , Antoine Arnault , Lucy Yeomans , and Djokovic himself, who came by to wish the players well before the match. "Novak did say, 'When I am better, I will come back and play,' but there is nothing he can do right now. There's not much a tennis player can do without his right hand!" Vodianova sighed courtside after Nadal's side triumphed over Youzhny's. "But maybe they can meet again—we can repeat the match here next year with Novak and turn this into an annual event!"

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Tiffany & Co. unveiled its annual Blue Book collection with a party at the Guggenheim Museum last night. Although it wasn't quite as titanic a production as last year's Jazz Age Gatsby blowout, a crowd of clients, fans, and socialites nevertheless stepped out in support of shiny things in blue boxes. A benefit of this year's lower-key affair was that the focus was more on the jewels themselves, and with the array of rare diamonds and stones on display around the museum's ground floor, there was plenty to focus on.



Katie Holmes was so enamored with the 27-carat sapphire ring she got to borrow for the evening that she called over her friends earlier in the afternoon to try it on. Her love affair with jewelry began with a charm she and her sisters passed down to each other on their sweet sixteens. "It's nice to have graduated to this, though," she said. "It's just incredible."



Jessica Biel also started collecting jewelry in her teens: "My first piece was one of those collapsible mesh Tiffany rings. I still have it!" She, too, has graduated—her favorite piece today being her engagement ring from husband Justin Timberlake. But it's not about carats for Biel: "It's easy to say jewelry is sparkly and beautiful, but it's more about how it comes from the earth. Mother Nature is the most spectacular artist. She makes these things that look like nothing, then people find them and clean them up. What's the energy inside a stone? That's what I'm intrigued by."

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Tommy Hilfiger has tapped into Zooey Deschanel 's geek-chic appeal and teamed up with the actress for a new capsule collection: To Tommy, From Zooey. Celebrating the partnership last night in L.A., the designer toasted the adorkable starlet alongside Jennifer Morrison , Angie Harmon , Malin Akerman , and Deschanel's New Girl costars Hannah Simone and Max Greenfield. "I met her at a lunch and I saw what she was wearing and I thought, Oh my God, this girl really knows what's going on," Hilfiger said of a vintage seersucker look Deschanel was wearing. "I thought we could do her quirky preppy aspiration with our sensibility and it would be a great collaboration."



Deschanel, for her part, said she took the design task seriously. "All the details were sort of fun for me—the buttons, the zipper pulls, the trim, all the little collars, adding my flair to his flair. It was kind of like having someone make all the things in your head come into reality."

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Hail Mary

Mary Katrantzou doesn't make it to New York often, but when she does, she goes to Indochine. To celebrate five years of her business, MAC Cosmetics hosted a dinner at the designer's favorite restaurant last night, and Katrantzou was living it up. "It isn't every day there's a party where everyone wears my clothes," she told Style.com.



Arden Wohl paired her Katrantzou with printed booties from her own Cri de Coeur vegan shoe collection, and Hannah Bronfman paired her sneaker-printed MK dress with actual sneakers. Over dinner, Fivestory's Claire Distenfeld waxed lyrical about what makes Katrantzou's dresses appealing: "No matter how you wear it, despite all the color and all the prints, there's an innate purity to it."



The designer was so busy going table to table catching up with friends that she didn't even end up eating. No matter—she'll be back again in a few months. "I can't wait to see New Yorkers wearing some of the lace pieces from Fall. You can wear them with a biker jacket, or on their own, sheer, to show off your body," she said. "A New Yorker is confident and likes to wear things her way."

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"Oil Paint, Plasticine, and Sweaty Bodies"

April showers continued to pound the city last night, but inside Tribeca's New York Academy of Art, spring was already in full bloom. For the annual Tribeca Ball, five floors of the building had been transformed into a Garden of Eden, complete with students' work, performances by musicians and artists, and models roaming around accessorized with large, floral headpieces and jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels.



"This feels like Sleep No More, only with the lights on," said one partygoer on the crowded fifth floor, as she passed the live art tableau featuring a man and a woman dressed like Adam and Eve. Artist Carroll Dunham , who was being honored with his wife, Laurie Simmons (they happen to be the parents of Girls' Lena Dunham), concurred: "It's hard to see the art because there are so many people. I don't really trust myself looking in such a crowded situation." Simmons, for her part, was busy taking in the aromas swirling about the studios. "I just really love the way it smells here," she told Style.com before sitting down with the likes of Dustin Yellin , Alan Cumming , Padma Lakshmi , and Misha Nonoo . "All art schools smell the same—it's a mix of oil paint, plasticine, and sweaty bodies."



Midway through a dinner by Daniel Boulud , when Simmons and her husband were presented with honorary doctorates of fine arts, she admitted to the crowd, "We have taught at a number of schools, including Ivy Leagues, and we have always managed to keep it a secret all these years that we don't have one of these." It doesn't have to remain a secret anymore, Dr. Simmons.

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"Kate [Moss] and I were thinking I should show my underpants for money, but as you know, I don't wear underpants, so Kate will show hers," said a very inspired Sharon Stone at the amfAR Inspiration Gala in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday night. Stone, amfAR's global fundraising chairman and the night's auctioneer, hosted the event alongside Moss, Naomi Campbell , Riccardo Tisci , and Kenneth Cole.



Brazil seems to be a hot topic right now. If you follow Tisci on Instagram (#riccardotisci17), you know that he's been traveling to the country a lot recently. "What I love from Brazil is the celebration of life," he said. "Brazil is the future in many scenes…art, music, architecture, design. The people are liberated and full of joy. The energy you find in this country is rare to find anywhere."



The fundraiser took place on the last day of São Paulo fashion week, so it was filled with top models—Izabel Goulart and Candice Swanepoel included. Daiane Conterato wore an all-nude dress straight off of designer Paula Raia's Spring 2015 runway, one of the best shows at SPFW. "I did sixteen shows this week. I felt like a newcomer," the model told Style.com. "I am here today, and I fly tomorrow to Hong Kong for the Dior show."



For its fourth year in the city, the event raised $2.7 million for the cause, making São Paulo a new hot spot for the foundation, which, since 1985, has raised more than $366 million for AIDS research and HIV prevention, treatment, and education. The event featured a tribute to Nizan Guanaes, one of Brazil's leading communications entrepreneurs, and his wife, Donata Meirelles , style director of Vogue Brazil. Campbell presented them each with the Humanitarian Award. "There are many great things in life, but finding a cause you connect to and being able to help is better than anything," Meirelles said in her speech.



The gala ended with a performance by Mary J. Blige , but the night was far from over. Performing at the after-party, samba artist Mart'nália had Tisci favorite Lea T dancing up on the stage.

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La Dolce Moda

Save Venice took over The Pierre on Friday night for its annual Un Ballo in Maschera, transforming the hotel's grand ballroom into an enchanted garden. And thanks to sponsor Dolce & Gabbana, there was enough moda Italiano on display to make the evening feel authentically Italian. Guests ranged from stalwart philanthropists like Adelina Wong Ettelson and Gillian Miniter —one woman called this her "oh, fifth, sixth, or tenth Save Venice"—to newcomers such as Public School's Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow , whose slim black suits were a cool counterpoint to some of the evening's more decadent costumes. "We don't really do much women's evening right now, but seeing all of this, who knows," said Osborne. "We're not quite there yet, but when we are, we'll do it our way."



Other designers shared their tips for gala season dressing. "Don't take your shoes off to dance, don't be that girl," Brian Atwood advised, right before one overzealous dancer dropped her champagne flute on the dance floor. Tabitha Simmons suggested to "be prepared like a Boy Scout, you never know where the evening will take you!" And this from Bibhu Mohapatra : "The secret is to not reveal the ultimate surprise. Make sure there is something for the person next to you to discover." DJ performances from Mia Moretti , Caitlin Moe , and May Kwok kept partygoers dancing until well after midnight. The evening raised $700,000 for Save Venice's mission of restoring art and architecture in the canal city.

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It was model central last night at the Jacquelyn Jablonski -hosted Autism Speaks fundraiser. Valentina Zelyaeva , Sara Blomqvist, Ginta Lapina , and Daria Strokous all turned up at Milk Studios to support the cause. "I'm so proud of her," Joan Smalls told Style.com. "As a friend, Jacquelyn is already incredible, but to actually believe in this so much and give herself to it…she is so selfless. I'm totally blown away."



The evening's main event was a silent art auction. Jablonski's favorite piece? "This great shot of me by Sean and Seng, in Rome, hugging this filthy dog. But I'm wearing Valentino and some heels, so it's OK." At one point Smalls got into a bidding war with Limited Brands' CMO Ed Razek over a Demarchelier picture of some giraffes. Men trying to pilfer her contact information from the bidding sheet were disappointed—she had signed her bids with no e-mail address or phone number, only "Joan S."



Autism strikes close to home for Jablonski—her brother Tommy is on the spectrum. "When I started modeling, I knew I wanted to do something," she said. "Tonight is about raising funds, of course, but also about raising awareness. The CDC announced last week that 1 in 68 children land on the autism spectrum." Job well done, Jacquelyn: The model's brother was by her side the entire night, and her friends helped raise more than $70,000.

—Todd Plummer

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Superhero in Spandex

The Tribeca Film Festival is two weeks away, but it's always movie night in NYC. Last night's double feature kicked off when the Cinema Society and Gucci Guilty screened Captain America: The Winter Soldier at the Tribeca Grand. Chris Evans plays the masked superhero, and had some choice words to describe the on-set experience: "It was sweaty. Those spandex suits are always uncomfortable. To be honest, I don't even think they wash those things!"



Jokes aside, Evans is pretty modest about being the eye of this particular Hollywood storm. "I never really thought this would happen," he told Style.com. "No one really thinks that they'll ever end up with a part like this. It's overwhelming, exciting, and humbling. There's this enormous sense of gratitude." Helena Christensen , Toni Garrn , and Liya Kebede all turned out to see Evans in his skintight suits.



Meanwhile, at MoMA, Tiffany & Co. hosted a private screening for Maggie Betts ' new indie short, Engram. "It's such a small project but is so heartfelt," Betts said, "and it means so much to have everyone show up." An engram is a phantom trace of memory, and the brief film is about how even the happiest ones fade away. Afterward, Betts and a bunch of friends headed downtown for dinner at The Marlton. The group included Barbara Pierce Bush , Indre Rockefeller, and Olivier Theyskens , and the occasion was Prabal Gurung 's birthday. There were new memories to be made.

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