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The beauty of the annual Watermill Center Benefit is that you can always expect the unexpected. Nudity, erotic sculptures, and a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga have been part of past years' programming. "Oh, my God, one woman over there is standing in a deep hole in the ground, wearing a costume and singing opera," Constance Jablonski , a first-timer at the party, told Style.com. "I just took off my heels to walk through the woods. It's art anyways, right? Part of the concept is to wear bare feet."



In fact, the official concept for this year's bash was "One Thousand Nights and One Night: Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade." The dress code? "Bazaar chic." Of his black-and-gold caftan, the Center's artistic director, Robert Wilson , said, "This was given to me as a gift by my friend Sheikha Paula Al-Sabah , the first lady of Kuwait [and the evening's honoree], just for tonight." After placing their final bids on silent auction items (which included front-row seats at the Fall 2015 Prada and Fendi runway shows) and taking in Wilson's portraits of Lady Gaga, which made their U.S. premiere at the event after their stint at the Louvre, guests made their way to the dinner. "The Lady Gaga work is one of the greatest pieces of art, ever," said Al-Sabah. "In fact, I own five of them in my collection because they are so stunning." By the end of the night, she had helped raise a record $2.2 million to support the Center's International Summer Program and year-round Artist Residency Program.



Over in Amagansett, at the home of Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld , Giorgio Armani underwrote a summer dinner for the charity Baby Buggy. The organization donates "gently used but totally usable" baby goods to families in need. Nacho Figueras , Kourtney Kardashian , and Kirna Zabête's Sarah Easley and Beth Buccini were among those who turned out. "I'm just glad the party is finally here. There was just so much prep in getting everything ready," Ms. Seinfeld said.



Lots of prep, indeed: Dinner was held under a massive white tent on her front lawn, not too far from Mr. Seinfeld's iconic baseball diamond. We asked if she had any secrets for playing hostess at an outdoor party. "Don't fear a flat. I retire my heels for the summer. I think a flat for evening in the summer is so chic, and my husband thinks it's the sexiest thing when I wear flats." Although Jerry was unable to make dinner due to a work engagement out of state, the comedian did manage to fly in post-dessert for the after-party deejayed by Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor . The dinner raised just shy of $300,000.

—Kristin Tice Studeman and Todd Plummer

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According to Malcolm Carfrae , the two requirements for a proper Australian bash are "beautiful people" and "plenty of alcohol." Both elements were on hand last night at The Skylark rooftop lounge, where Carfrae held his sixth annual Australians in New York Fashion Foundation summer cocktail party. Francisco Costa , Italo Zucchelli , Jason Wu , and Carfrae's fellow Aussie Julie Anne Quay all turned out, but there was a less ample supply of booze. "Australians drink a lot," confirmed Tome's Ramon Martin , who was co-hosting the party with his design partner, Ryan Lobo. Down at the Standard's East Village rooftop, Emporio Armani and Standard Sounds were throwing a little fete of their own. While Nightmares on Wax and Ewan Pearson deejayed, Mia Moretti , Julia Restoin Roitfeld , and Michael Avedon sipped vino and took in the sweeping views of lower Manhattan. Overheard: "I want it to stay summer forever; it feels like fashion week is just around the corner."



At the Museum of Modern Art, meanwhile, the Cinema Society and Mont Blanc-sponsored premiere of A Most Wanted Man was unusually solemn given the recent death of its star, Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film is an adaptation of John le Carré's spy novel of the same name. "The hardest part was to simplify such a magnificent book, which was a challenge with all the layers and the characters," director Anton Corbijn told Style.com. "Most of all I wanted people to see how great Philip Seymour Hoffman is. I think he left an amazing performance behind." Mick Jagger and Pat Cleveland were in the after-party crowd. The latter took a glass-half-full approach to the serious evening: "We all have to die eventually—at least Philip got to die a star."

—Kristin Studeman and Todd Plummer

Garden of Edun

Why did Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson , host a sunset cocktail party at their home in the South of France last night? "We're Irish," said Hewson. "It's what we do; we invite people into our homes."



Bellinis, frothy from fresh-pressed peach juice, were served up as the first of a three-act evening celebration in conjunction with MyTheresa, the online luxury retailer that has mastered the art of the feel-good fashion fete. The guests who gathered on the couple's terrace, set within a marvelously unpopulated strip of the Côte d'Azur, had come to toast Edun's entrance into the MyTheresa fold, where it will soon be found nestled between Eddie Borgo and Emilio Pucci. And because all parties need a guest of honor, that distinction was bestowed upon Edun's Danielle Sherman , who, in just two seasons, has steered Bono and Hewson's fashion brand toward an elusive sweet spot of African craft and contemporary currency.



The spectacular setting rendered Leonardo DiCaprio 's presence something just shy of a footnote. If his goal was to keep a low profile, it was only unsuccessful to the extent that the butt of his e-cigarette beamed a conspicuous green light as he puffed away through dinner (let this irony not go unnoticed by Fitzgerald fans). Dasha Zhukova , seated next to Bono and wearing a red dress from Vika Gazinskaya's & Other Stories collaboration, seemed sufficiently amused by the vapor stick to sneak one into her purse. Indeed, there was something undeniably toned down to what was, in fact, a rather tony gathering. Maybe it had something to do with Spike Jonze offering up lighthearted chitchat (specifically, a fictional parallel career as an engineer of 3-D-printed underwater bridges). Or that Edun's muses for the night—Marie-Josée Croze , Daisy Lowe , Hanneli Mustaparta , and Mimi Xu—doffed their heels to traverse the stony shoreline separating Casa Hewson from the casual seaside restaurant Anjuna. Here, T-shirts posing the question "Where's my fucking yacht?" decorated the entrance, and boxes stuffed with vegetable crudités adorned the group's extra-long table.



At some point between the family-style platters of salmon and beef carpaccio and the salt-crusted branzino, MyTheresa's Justin O'Shea and Bono had the 30 or so guests raising their Domaines Ott to bless the partnership. "The brands that succeed are the ones that are deliberate, and both of you have done such a fantastic job building something that will now go on forever," said O'Shea. Bono perceptively joked that O'Shea resembled Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor and then applied the imagery to Edun. "These baby brands, they get legs, get strong, get into the ring. I want to thank Ali; she sees the sensitivity and the pain of the journey, because it's tough to make clothes in Africa," he said. "But things got very interesting when Danielle arrived. She saw this modernity in the ancient materials and textiles of that continent. To see it finally take fight—as well as flight—because of the assembled team is really humbling for me. What a wonderful occasion, what a wonderful night."



Those with the endurance for Act III were invited for a nightcap at Jimmy'z in Monaco. DiCaprio made a Cinderella exit (presumably to rest up for his own charity party tonight in Saint-Tropez), but nearly all the others willingly obliged.

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Keeping the party scene cool in the midst of London's summer heat wave, Calvin Klein Jeans' Kevin Carrigan and MyTheresa's Justin O'Shea celebrated their new collaboration at the Rosenfeld Porcini gallery in Fitzrovia last night. The Re-Issue Project is a nine-piece capsule collection that reimagines the emblematic denim, sweatshirt, and tees originally worn in the company's iconic ads of the eighties and nineties. Daisy Lowe , Tallulah Harlech , and Amber Le Bon turned up to see the line's campaign, which stars Lottie Moss , little sister to supermodel Kate.



Two decades after her big sis starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in the nineties-era ads, 16-year-old Lottie just signed with Storm Models. "The photos are great, and all the pieces in the collection are pieces I would wear: young, nice, and fresh," Moss told Style.com. "My favorite is the big gray sweatshirt." The black-and-white portraits were snapped by Michael Avedon , 23-year-old grandson of Richard Avedon, who shot the groundbreaking (and controversial) 1981 campaign with Brooke Shields featuring the infamous tagline, "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Will these ads have the same potency as the originals? Check back with us in twenty or thirty years.

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Last night at the Paris Theatre, Woody Allen premiered his latest flick, Magic in the Moonlight, a comedic caper set in the south of France circa the 1920s. The plot revolves around a single question: Is Emma Stone 's character, Sophie, a clairvoyant medium or a phony? "Woody called me for the part," Stone told Style.com. "And filming was pretty much exactly how I thought it would be." Clairvoyant, indeed. Rumor has it Stone is already slated to star in Allen's next film.



After the screening, guests moseyed a few blocks east for an after-party at Harlow, where sponsor Dolce & Gabbana had lined the walls with fresh roses. ("It definitely smells like the south of France in here," one guest remarked.) The likes of Christina Hendricks , Dane DeHaan , and Audrey Tautou turned out, and the film's Provençal setting skewed the evening's conversation toward how badly everyone wanted a French holiday. Mia Moretti talked about her recent trip to Paris for Couture: "It's less of a scene than the ready-to-wear shows. I stayed in a friend's apartment in the Sixth, and it actually felt like more of a vacation than running around." Côte d'Azur or the Upper East Side, Stone didn't seem to care much where she was—she spent the whole night cozied up in a booth with boyfriend Andrew Garfield .



Meanwhile, ballet star and the Bolshoi's only American dancer, David Hallberg , had a debut of his own when he performed Swan Lake for the first time at Lincoln Center. The handsome danseur noble was the guest of honor afterward at a dinner hosted by Russian fashion and art VIPs Nasiba Adilova and Maria Baibakova , among others at Lincoln Ristorante.

—Todd Plummer

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Partygoers braved thunderstorms last night for a trio of parties downtown and up. First, the opening of Fendi's Soho pop-up on the corner of Prince and Greene. Claire Distenfeld , Leandra Medine , and Tali Lennox turned out, but the guest of honor was none other than Karl Lagerfeld himself—in furry keychain form, that is. "I love Karl, but I especially love a fluffy Karl," said Distenfeld. Guests took turns snapping Instagram pictures with the charm. One even tried walking out the door with Karlito snapped on his belt before a Fendi rep snatched it back. "I like that Fendi doesn't take itself seriously," Medine said, "although it's as luxury as luxury comes."



At Industria Studios in the West Village, Veuve Clicquot toasted the launch of Clicquot Mail, a new case offering in the shape of a classic mailbox. Champagne was passed from the Clicquot Mail truck, servers wore mailman uniforms, and guests could order a bottle of Veuve to be mailed anywhere they liked. The party had people talking about their affection for good old-fashioned snail mail. "I've never received a love letter in the mail," said model Gabriela Lopez . "But I think I'd much rather receive some champagne."



Up on Fifth Avenue, the ubiquitous Jeff Koons was celebrating another installation, this one at the new H&M flagship. Images of his famous Balloon Dog were prominently displayed on the store's five floors of windows, and inside, his Balloon Dog leather bag, priced at $49.95, was going fast.

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How is a Paris museum gala different from a New York museum gala? "You can smoke." Emmanuelle Alt said it herself last night at the inaugural Vogue Paris Foundation's dinner in honor of the contemporary collections at the Musée Galliera, which the event helped fund. The soiree coincided with the opening of the museum's Les Années 50 exhibition. A who's who of the world's most famous designers turned out, and yes, some of them were lighting up. Balmain's Olivier Rousteing arrived arm in arm with Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner . Alber Elbaz brought Kristin Scott Thomas . Even designers in absentia didn't do badly. Nicolas Ghesquière didn't make it, but his flower print minidress from Louis Vuitton Resort was a perfect fit for Adèle Exarchopoulus . Another difference? Milliner Stephen Jones , who sat with the Schiaparelli clan, was taking iPhone pics of the insides of the dresses in the exhibition (straight up from the hem) without so much as a second glance from the guards. "I did it at the Charles James show at the Met and I got in a bit of trouble."



It was an unusually cold and drizzly summer night in Paris and inside the Palais Brongniart, Lancôme continued to make it rain—showering guests with gallons of gold and pink confetti in honor of the brand's Nouvelle Vague collection (a trio of luxury makeup bags designed by Alexandre Vauthier , Yiqing Yin, and Jacquemus ). While Vauthier's black-and-gold clutch seemed to be the favorite among attendees (most notably spotted in the hands of Kate Winslet ), others like Leigh Lezark doubled up: "I'm carrying Alexandre's bag and wearing a Jacquemus dress," she said. For Caroline de Maigret , the newest member of the Lancôme family (she's creating her own range of makeup with the brand next year), the evening's fete was also her coming-out party. "What I really like [about joining the company]," she noted, "is that I'm allowed to have flaws."

—Nicole Phelps and Amber Kallor

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Cocktail hour started early yesterday—mid-afternoon, to be precise—at the Baccarat headquarters in the 16th arrondissement, where the French heritage brand held first-look screenings of its Love Story trilogy. Of her first-ever speaking role, in the slightly complicated (and deeply French) vignette by Sonia Sieff , Caroline de Maigret admitted that she nearly backed out. "I had knots in my stomach constantly. But in the end, tackling something I didn't know how to do was liberating." So liberating, in fact, that she'll be taking on her first short film this fall.



In the evening, summer showers dampened the garden portion of the Bulgari party, but given that the venue was a 19th-century mansion that's currently home to the gastronomic restaurant Apicius, no one was much bothered. "It's winter back home in Australia, I've got no complaints," said actor Eric Bana , who confessed to a "soft spot for the greens" among the gems paraded at the evening's fashion show. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leaned more toward the diamonds, but added that she loved the candy-chic look of the bracelet she was wearing. "To me, jewelry is made of memories and history, like perfume. Bulgari brings me back to my roots, my childhood, because it's part of a major legend in Cinecittà and fashion," said France's former first lady. "I became French when I married five years ago. But I love having the chance to be Italian again!" Speaking of Italian, Fendi threw a party at its Avenue Montaigne store to introduce the world to Karlito. The little doll Cara Delevingne toted down the label's Fall runway in February has multiplied; we expect to see them popping up all over the shows in September.



The Germany-Brazil World Cup match was getting started as the first courses arrived at Just One Eye's dinner for jeweler Wilfredo Rosado at Caviar Kaspia. By the time the famous baked potatoes emerged from the kitchen, it was 5-0. Alix Duvernoy , a Brazilian who was making the rounds at couture for the first time, wasn't pleased. Rosado himself had tickets to Sunday's final, but sold them. "I've never been to Rio," he said. Instead, he'll take his holidays in Europe. As of halftime, he was still deliberating between Budapest and Prague.

—Tina Isaac-Goizé and Nicole Phelps

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Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel show got the couture set out of bed early today, but it was double C's of a different sort who kept them out last night. Colette's Sarah Lerfel and Coach's Stuart Vevers gathered friends like Caroline de Maigret , Fabien Baron , Aurélie Bidermann, and Camille Bidault Waddington at Verjus for a late dinner. De Maigret was talking up her upcoming book, and Bidermann was buzzing about her new New York store. As for Vevers himself, he said that when August comes he's headed to Peru to do some hiking in the mountains.



Over in the Seventh, the Italian ambassador Giandomenico Magliano and his wife threw a party for the shoe designer Gianvito Rossi . The cause célèbre was Rossi's recent collaboration with the German website MyTheresa; celebrity-watching was what kept the crowd occupied, though. Jared Leto , last spotted in Paris at Miu Miu in March, made a cameo appearance.



Earlier at the Gagosian Gallery, the cocktail party thrown by Eugenie Niarchos for her jewelry line, Venyx, drew a steady stream of guests on their way to and from the day's final shows. One early arrival was Mario Testino , who said, "I've been watching Eugenie for a long time. She's got such innate elegance, and what she sees is so pretty," So pretty, in fact, that he put in a little word with the designer about recasting a moonstone ring as a pair of cuff links. "I've spent so many years looking at jewelry, and I don't know if it's age, but when I was getting ready for the Met Gala, I thought I might like something nice of my own," he said.

—Nicole Phelps and Tina Isaac-Goizé

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"I don't know them well, but let's have a hand for the bride and groom!" Jack White boomed from the Palais d'Iéna stage. At the invitation of Miuccia Prada , the rocker and his band sandwiched a gig for the Miu Miu crowd between two concerts for 50,000 in Poland and Denmark. Last night's audience was a tiny fraction of that size—barely two hundred people—but White didn't scale back on the volume, which thumped in your chest and poured out through the open windows into the quiet Sixteenth. Up front and singing along were Freida Pinto , Gemma Arterton , Douglas Booth , and Nymphomaniac's Stacy Martin . Roman Polanski and Emmanuelle Seigner didn't linger for the show, but sat at the head table for dinner with Prada. The meal—gnocchi gnudi followed by vitello tonnato—was cooked by Prada's personal chef; monogrammed linen napkins from the designer's own collection were gathered up after the main course. Guests hoping to make off with a souvenir of the evening had to settle for the ringing in their ears, courtesy of White and co.

—Nicole Phelps

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The Serpentine Gallery's annual to-do is London's party of the year. Last night's crowd was as glittery as ever: Keira Knightley , Orlando Bloom , Dakota Johnson, Mark Ruffalo, Lily Allen , and Bryan Ferry all turned up. Brendan Mullane, creative director of Brioni, who hosted the event alongside Marina Abramovic , André Balazs , and François-Henri Pinault , among others, told Style.com that partnering with the iconic London gallery was an organic process: "Brioni has deep cultural links instilled in its heritage—performance, art, and craftsmanship are at our core, so for us, getting involved seemed like a natural thing to do. When the opportunity presented itself, we jumped at the chance."



This year's pavilion, a giant cylindrical fiberglass structure designed by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, had partygoers wondering what it was. A pod? A helmet? A spaceship? A half-eaten doughnut? The guesses got more interesting as the evening progressed. Another attraction was the "Laboratory of Sound"—an "intelligent glass" box created by The Vinyl Factory that the DJs could manipulate to go completely dark. If Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse were looking to get in some private time, that feature would have come in handy.



It was also fashion's night out: Cara Delevingne , Riccardo Tisci , Prabal Gurung , Christopher Kane, Natalie Massenet, and many more rushed to the stage when a distinctive hat was spotted. Let's just say there were some very happy Pharrell Williams fans in the crowd. Matthew Williamson summed up the evening best: "I knew tonight was going to be fun, I just didn't think it was going to be this much fun."

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