The Costume Institute Benefit Gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hosted by Anna Wintour, is typically heralded as the final event of the Manhattan charity season. It means that another social year has passed and, also to many of our social women, that only a few weeks remain to prep for busy summers in Southampton and Sag Harbor.

The Gala is the ultimate handfasting of 90210 and 10021 with actors like Cameron Diaz and Hilary Swank just a flowing train’s length away from socials like Fabiola Beracasa and Zani Gugelmann. Half-ways like Byrdie Bell and Chloë Sevigny are few and far between. This was one of those night where socials sometimes had to be subjugated to Hollywood celebrities in front of their beloved photographers. However, we can safely say that our U.E.S. women gave these visitors a run for their money with their frocks. It’s only a fact that New York women dress better.

With upwards of around 700 guests, the socials had a hard time finding Valentine or Olga Rei. Some say that they didn’t even show tonight. The women I’ve spoken to have been completely candid about the relevation in New York: they have completely blacklisted both Rei siblings. The talk of the night amongst the Gotham crowd, away from their formal LVMH and Tom Ford tables, was, of course, the dramatics in the New York piece. One social counted upwards of fifteen toasts in the name and honor of myself and Park Avenue Peerage. I’m flattered.

At the afterparties at The Box and Bungalow 8, trust funds are dissolved and Oscars are scrapped. After a long day of makeup and final fitting, actual event attendance and mandatory mingling, and partying so hard that their Louboutin heels break (it actually happened), socials who checked in clocked back between 3 and 4 AM. Tonight was all about celebrating one of New York’s most glamorous nights.

Photographs: 1. Bee Shaffer, party thrower Anna Wintour and Bee Shaffer, 2. Dylan Lauren, 3. Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (a Julia Restoin-Roitfeld type that will be watched keenly), 4. Lauren Bush, David Lauren and Lauren Bush, 5. Ivanka Trump, 6. Juliette Lewis (who was included not for her Claire Danes luster but for her perfect channeling of Arden Wohl). © WireImage.