Diamonds January 23, 2008
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Fabiola Beracasa
Coralie Charriol Paul
Minnie Mortimer Gaghan
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
Margherita Missoni
Barbara Bush
Kate Mara
Susan Fales-Hill
Allison Sarofim
Helen Lee Schifter
Talk about glamor. Last week, the Plaza Hotel re-opened, and did so after almost three years of renovations, with the great fanfare of Chanel. The company’s fine jewelry division hosted a dinner for 300 in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom, which was lit as dramatically possible.
Chanel had dressed almost all of its socialite clientèle for the “Nuit de Diamants” evening. In a sea of requisite black and white, Chanel was celebrating the American debut of twenty couture diamond works from its Parisian archives. An event of this scale, and by that, I mean including so many bold-faced society names, hasn’t been seen since the summer celebrations of Valentino’s anniversary in Italy.
This was the first event of the new year for most socialites. Fabiola Beracasa came with a tan that you could only get by spending three weeks touring Thailand and Hong Kong with your boyfriend. Coralie Charriol Paul was skiing in Aspen.
And Margherita Missoni spent time on Lamu, an island off of the mainland coast of Kenya. She is in a relationship with Ernst August of Hanover, the heir to the titular Hanoverian throne, a step-brother of the Casiraghi trio, and the ex-boyfriend of fashion Allegra Versace.
Minnie Mortimer was in Mustique with her husband Stephan Gaghan; her two older brothers, Peter Davis and Topper Mortimer; sister-in-law Tinsley Mortimer; and family friends Nina Garcia and David Conrod.
Actress Kate Mara, heiress to the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers professional football franchise fortunes, made the scene with her boyfriend, McG, the producer and director.
Barbara Bush came unaccompanied. She now works in educational programming for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and has been seen around town (but not at formal events) with her former Yale sweetheart, Jay Blount.
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Love this. So glad to have PAP back. Such a glam event!
No surprises here. Coralie, Minnie, and Susan hit it out of the ballpark. Although I could never wear anything like it, love Kate’s dress. How cute is it?!
Susan, as usual, looks so incredibly elegant. How do you say “made for the red carpet” in French?
Minnie has a killer bod.
So happy to have PAP back in my life!
Thank God this site is up and running again!!!!! This has been the longest month of my life. Is Helen wearing SHORTS? Are my eyes deceiving me? Why? Why? Damn she looks old, and she has old lady legs. Why is Allison wearing those boots to this type of event? Wrong! Too casual.
Fabiola was so close to getting it right. Nice tan though. Same to Margherita. I would have liked to spend time off of Kenya with my German prince boyfriend, too.
Kate looks the cutest.
“with Ernst August of Hanover, the heir to the titular Hanoverian throne”
Germany is a republic, I mean: throne, throne…., well like Pavlos of Greece, a lot of blue blood and maybe a crown, but not throne, neither a kingdom
Princess Margherita. Cute! She already looks like one. That is a killer tan she’s rocking.
Shoshanna looks amazing. She is an inspiration to all the petite women out there!
Everyone looks good, except Helen. WTF, did she get fashion inspiration from Demi Moore 20 years ago (those awful bike shorts)?
Barbara looks like she quite literally has an albatross around her neck.
Bike shorts. In January no less. Like Winehouse sings, “No-no,no, no!”
I never realized how much Minnie reminds me of Gisele Bunchden (sp?).