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SOCIAL SAFARI HAVE WE MET? MR. HAY MAKES HAY OF THE COSTUME INSTITUTE GALA AND MORE by R. Couri Hay

THE HAUTEST PARTY an art installation, which was figure out what we believe in OF THE YEAR fitting for the opening night of and stand for, this exhibition Anna Wintour’s Costume a retrospective of the designs has a lot to teach us. Rei’s work Institute Ball, the annual parade of Rei Kawakubo of Comme is beautiful and transcends age of power, beauty and celebrity, des Garçons. Honorary chair and gender. I’m proud to call her again exceeded all expectations. Caroline , the daughter a friend.” From the hand-painted white of and the former U.S. This year’s other cochairs were and blue carpet that ran up the ambassador to Japan, said, “In Katy Perry, in a dramatic red Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Japan, people are walking the shroud by Maison Margiela that steps to the 30-foot-tall topiary streets in Rei’s image, wearing veiled her usually front-and-cen- Rei Kawakubo amazing clothes and transcend- ter décolletage, derriere and face; and husband violet, this night was all about Adrian Joffe the extravagant details. It was ing rules. They’re inspired by , in ripped the freedom she has given them jeans and black leather biker hard not to gasp from and Tom Brady. Bündchen wore both the beauty and to explore what’s new. In today’s jacket by Rei; and the night’s world, where we each need to sexiest couple, Gisele Bündchen a gray gown by Stella McCartney the fragrance of what that clung to all the right bits, looked like 200,000 and Brady wore a gray dinner roses in white, pink jacket by Tom Ford that merely and burgundy. The flattered. The spouses kissed and grand staircase was stroked each other’s adorable flanked by mirrored posteriors in front of 210 mem- walls, in front of bers of the media. Mon Dieu! which the magi- Sean “Diddy” Combs cal designer Raul caused a human traffic Avila suspended 200 jam when he decided five-foot-wide red to lie down on the floral balls. The ceiling great stairs, while was lit in hot pink, the photographers to complement an went wild. Ma- enormous wall of Kendall donna swigged hot pink roses. Jenner in who knows what This wasn’t from a canteen mere decora- Emma Bloomberg, , Diana Taylor, Georgina dangling tion: it was Bloomberg and Ramiro Quintana from her

Gisele Bündchen “I’m proud to and Tom Brady

Lily call her a friend.” Aldridge Anna Wintour in ­—Caroline Kennedy, on Rei

Kawakubo Blake Lively Halle Berry Andrew Bolton

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Jeremy Scott camouflage dress, Douro, Larry Gagosian, told me, ‘Your mother writes and Celine Dion said, “I brought Katie Holmes and Zac me the most fantastic letters. my driver’s license because oth- Posen, Hugh Jackman, I’ve told my secretaries that they erwise I would have had to start Blake Lively and Ryan are the only nongovernment singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ if Reynolds, John Legend correspondence I want to reach they didn’t let me in." Both were and Chrissy Teigen, Jen- my desk.’” left cooling in their stilettos until nifer Lopez and A-Rod, While in Morocco I also saw Combs finally huffed and puffed Jeff Koons, and Michael the late Yves Saint Laurent’s his way up the staircase. Kors, to name just a few. lover Pierre Bergé overseeing Pharrell Dinner was served on pink, Williams and The show is curated by the new St. Laurent Museum red and burgundy silk cloths Lasichanh Andrew Bolton and runs that will open this October next centered with gold vases filled through September 4. to the famed Majorelle Garden. with ranunculus, anemones Metmuseum.org Thanks to the late fashion de- and peonies to complement the signer’s beneficence, this iconic plates printed in a blue peony Jacques Majorelle–designed spot pattern. The meal consisted of LUNCH IN THE has been saved in perpetuity. SAHARA fondation-pb-ysl.net Diana Vreeland’s debonair son Freder- ick “Frick” Vreeland SECRETS OF THE DAKOTA is turning 90 this June, At a reception at their Dakota and will celebrate by apartment cohosted by Frick taking a trip around the director Ian Wardropper, real world. Vreeland’s long estate heirs and millennial “I always career in the foreign philanthropists Toby and Larry service culminated in Milstein revealed secrets of the sneak a an ambassadorship to building where Rosemary’s Baby Morocco. Last month, his was set and John Lennon was selfie.” murdered. During the talk, titled Kylie “Across the Park and into the ­—Kylie Jenner Past,” guests learned that $30,000 in cash was hidden under the Jenner floors of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s apartment by the former owner, but the co-op board re- Cara fused to destroy Delevingne the parquet to find it. They also learned that, Jackson and Lily Cameron Winkle- Caroline Kennedy in Aldridge. “The voss and Tyler as Toby put it, Comme des Garcons with Winklevoss son real party was in “Frankenstein the bathroom,” lived in the lobster and crab said Hailey building,” refer- with generous Baldwin. “Ev- ring to the iconic scoops of caviar on eryone congre- Boris Karloff. top, followed by sea gated in there friend Charles Leslie Alexander and bass or a buttery during dinner. gave a lunch for Vree- Jamie Bernstein, Wagyu beef paired Julie The boys were land at his Marrakech the children of with fine wines and Macklowe coming into the girl’s villa Dar El Ouarda. This Leonard Bern- topped off with a room and people were magnificent landmark stein who had yuzu citrus mochi sneaking cigarettes.” was built in 1650 and is once lived in the concoction created Not in the bath- situated behind pink-hued walls Milstein apartment, returned to by Glorious Food. room taking selfies (but nev- in the old Medina. their old home for the first time Kylie Jenner, who confessed, ertheless having fun) were Mi- During lunch, Vreeland re- and said that Lauren Bacall was a “I always sneak a selfie,” was chael Bloomberg with his two galed friends with stories about regular guest: “She lived upstairs among the first to break the No daughters, Emma and Georgina, his mother and about being on and would come through the Social Media Rule, posting a , Gwyneth President Kennedy’s National back stairs and just arrive right in group shot in the ladies’ room Paltrow, Tom Ford, Amy Fine Security Council. “I wrote the the kitchen unannounced all the that featured her sister Kim, Collins, Cara Delevingne, the ‘’ line,” he time. She was like our crazy aunt ✦ A$AP Rocky, Brie Larson, Paris Marquess and Marchioness of admitted, adding “The president upstairs,” said Jamie. frick.org

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