Roman Red July 12, 2007
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The party went on until the sun rose. After his haute couture show at the Santo Spirito in Sassia, which was built in the twelfth century, Valentino assembled the best of his clientèle, Oscar winners, Rose Bar regulars, and Royal Highnesses, at this celebratory dinner for 1,000 guests at the Villa Borghese. With the finest wine, old friends and dancing ruled the night.
The New Yorkers there were Fabiola Beracasa, Olivia Chantecaille, Alexis Bryan, Annelise Peterson, Tory Burch (with her boyfriend Lance Armstrong), Margherita Missoni, Alexandra von Furstenberg, Marina Livanos, Jennifer Creel, Bee Shaffer (with her brother Charlie), Ryan Haddon, Cornelia Guest, Olivia Palermo, Rena Sindi, Lauren Davis (with Andres Santo Domingo) and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes.
International socials that attended were Charlotte Casiraghi (with her brother Pierre), Eugenie Niarchos, Tatiana Santo Domingo, Coco Brandolini, Bianca Brandolini, Andrea Dellal, Charlotte Dellal, Daphne Guinness, Elizabeth Jagger, Caroline of Monaco and Hanover, and Marie-Chantal of Greece.
Photographs (from top): 1. Charlotte Dellal and Andrea Dellal, 2. Bianca Brandolini, Coco Brandolini, Eugenie Niarchos, 3. Alexis Bryan, Olivia Chantecaille, 4. Jennifer Creel, Alexandra von Furstenberg, Ryan Haddon, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, 5. Fabiola Beracasa, Margherita Missoni, 6. Zac Posen, Annelise Peterson, and Brian Callahan.
Temple of Valentino July 10, 2007
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Four clothing changes were required for the socialites, actresses, and general heiresses assembled this past weekend for Valentino’s 45th anniversary celebration in Rome. Festivities kicked off on Friday with a retrospective exhibition of 300 of his dresses, including those he made for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and C.Z. Guest, at the Ara Pacis, an altar that was set with a signature Valentino piece, the red dress. (In history, Coco Chanel is remembered for the little black dress, while Valentino is for the red one.) This was followed by a dinner at the Temple of Venus; all but a few columns remain from Hadrian’s time so Dante Ferretti restored those with plexiglass and illuminated them from within to complement the idols there (ancient and present-day). Pictures here are from that dinner.
Lauren Davis came with her fiancé Andres Santo Domingo, accompanied by the three It girls of the international set: Eugenie Niarchos, his niece Tatiana Santo Domingo, and Charlotte Casiraghi. (Since breaking up with Felix Winckler earlier this year, Charlotte has been with Alex Dellal, the brother of Brazilian-Iranian socials Alice and Charlotte Dellal.)
Anna Wintour came with her boyfriend Shelby Bryan and her daughter Bee Shaffer. Other social types at the dinner were Marie-Chantal of Greece, Annelise Peterson, Daphne Guinness, Rena Sindi, Alexis Bryan, Olivia Palermo, Dr. Lisa Airan, Olivia Chantecaille, Tamara Mellon, Georgina Chapman, and the Brandolini sisters, Bianca and Coco.
Photographs (from top): 1. Alexis Bryan and Olivia Chantecaille, 2. Anna Wintour and Bee Shaffer, 3. Coco and Bianca Brandolini, 4. Georgina Chapman, Olivia Palermo, 5. Marie-Chantal of Greece and Zac Posen, 6. Giancarlo Giammetti, Tatiana Santo Domingo, and Eugenie Niarchos.
All photographs © PatrickMcMullan.com.
Ils sont à Paris July 5, 2007
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Anna Wintour, queen of fashion in Paris (even displacing Carine Roitfeld in front row proximity), New York, and everywhere between, attended this season’s haute couture shows with her daughter Bee Shaffer. Here they are at Dior, and if you’d like to see a delightful video of the two hugging and leaving the Ritz together, then please click here.
The Rose Bar must be looking a bit emaciated now. Lauren Davis, Fabiola Beracasa, Zani Gugelmann, Eugenie Niven, Olivia Palermo, Fiona Scarry, Camilla Al-Fayed, and Tatiana Santo Domingo are all in Paris navigating through Dior and Chanel, Givenchy and Jean-Paul Gaultier. They were reunited at the party Karl Lagerfeld threw at his private residence for Courtney Love, and most were able to attend after-parties at Hôtel de Crillon and the Parisian nightclubs Neo and Le Baron with only the pure bon chic bon genre.
Olivia and Zani were the American guests of honor both at the Armani Privé couture collection showing and also at the private dinner held by Roberta Armani, the same hostess of the New York party. After mingling, Olivia left for Los Angeles, where she will live for at least one month, she said (and come out of Les Deux with Lauren Conrad at least once).
Photographs of Olivia Palermo and Zani Gugelmann at the Armani Privé front row © Greg Kessler. All other photographs © WireImage.com.
Bright Light, Big City: Amanda Hearst July 3, 2007
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Amanda Hearst and Luigi Tadini
Amanda Hearst grew up as the best friend of Nicky Hilton. There was a time in New York when the Hilton sisters were domestic in New York: when they lived in the Waldorf, spent school nights at Saci and Spy, and competed with the Schnabel sisters to see which pair would end up on Page Six before the other (Paris and Nicky won, of course, at age 14). Amanda was one of the first celebutantes – society girls that cameras, editors, and designers loved. She was one of the original blue-blooded settlers of Bungalow 8.
Amanda Hearst, seated, on left in cream gown
In 2001, Amanda made her formal debut into society at Le Bal Crillon in Paris. Amanda, like her friend Lauren Bush the year before, made a stunning premiere amongst fellow debutantes Victoria and Vanessa Traina, British arista Violet Naylor-Leyland, and her cousin Lydia Hearst-Shaw. All eyes were on Amanda, the classic American beauty at the ball, elegant in Carolina Herrera. Over the years, Amanda has cultivated a distinctly understated, feminine fashion style. Houses like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent dress her and Versace and Armani make sure to fly her every season for their couture shows in Paris.
She was born in New York City on January 5, 1984 as Amanda Randolph Hearst, the daughter of Anne Hearst and Richard McChesney. Anne was the daughter of Catherine Campbell and Randolph Apperson Hearst, the billionaire Hearst Corporation chairman whose third wife was Veronica Hearst, the mother of Fabiola Beracasa. Through her mother, Amanda is the great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. Four of Amanda’s Hearst relatives are on Forbes’ billionaires list; Harper’s Bazaar once half-jokingly valued Amanda’s annual maintenance cost to be $136,360. She’s a bona fide heiress.
Bingo Gubelmann, Dabney Mercer, Nick Mele, Paige Ryan, Amanda Hearst, Winston Lapham, James O’Donnell
Amanda Hearst, Devon Schuster, Minnie Mortimer
Amanda attended Chapin School until the eighth grade and then went onto Choate Rosemary Hall. She shared a friendly rapport with Ivanka Trump as she, too, had gone to both schools, although she was two years ahead of Amanda. After Choate, Amanda went to Boston College to study art history. A year into her studies, she took a break to pursue her interests in modeling and writing. She made the covers of Cosmo and Harper’s Bazaar in both Spain and South Korea (and American Town & Country) and did international beauty campaigns for Lilly Pulitzer, Brunswig and Fils, and Ralph Lauren. During this year off, she also scribed a monthly column for Gotham about her travels.
She spent one more year at BC before transferring to Fordham University from where she will graduate from this coming December with a baccalaureate degree. Amanda curates modernist works at the Gagosian Gallery now. Meanwhile with Vanessa Trump and Kick Kennedy, the daughter of Bobby Kennedy, she is in the midst of starting a fashion company.
Marika Kielland, Lila Warburton, James Cushing, Amanda Hearst, Wilhelmina Hudson, Lindsey Pollard
Amanda is particularly active with the environmental group Riverkeeper- she is an executive member of its board of directors and founded their junior committee. Last October Amanda coordinated Riverkeeper’s first junior event and had social friends Tinsley Mortimer, Fabiola Beracasa, Lauren Bush, Ivanka Trump, Dabney Mercer, Byrdie Bell, and her cousin Gillian Hearst-Shaw join her in raising funds to maintain and protect the Hudson River. She is also a member of the junior committee of the Princess Grace Foundation.
Amanda Hearst and Winston Lapham
For the past few years, Amanda has been in a romantic relationship with Winston Lapham, the Greenwich-bred son of Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper’s. Winston’s great-great-grandfather was the first Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco; his great-grandfather Roger was the mayor of San Francisco; and his grandfather Lewis made his own fortune in Pacific shipping. Winston’s brother Andrew is married to Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of Canada’s former prime minister, and his sister Delphina is married to Prince Bante Boncompagni Ludovisi of Piombino.
Winston Lapham and Amanda Hearst
In New York, she hits the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel and Beatrice Inn with Luigi Tadini, Dalia Oberlander, Paige Ryan, Marissa Bregman, Minnie Mortimer, and Nick Raynes, the grandson of Marvin Davis. Winston and Amanda are couples’ dating partners of Devon Schuster and Phil Radziwill. During Amanda’s college days in Boston, she partied with David Katzenberg, the current beau of Nicky Hilton and was able to spend a nice vacation with her childhood friend in Miami just a few weeks ago.
Amanda Hearst, Andrew Freston, and Dalia Oberlander
And while Paris, Nicky, Casey Johnson, and even Olivia Palermo have all packed their Louis Vuittons for better camera lighting on the west coast, Amanda will always be, and I’m quoting a bit from her stepfather Jay McInerney now, a very bright light in this disproportionately big city – one of the first social girls to colonize ateliers, nightclubs, and the red carpet.
Princess Grace June 29, 2007
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For some socials, this was their last event in New York before boarding a flight this weekend for the haute couture shows in Paris. Fabiola Beracasa will be spending a few weeks in Europe, per an annual tradition of attending these couture shows to identify and get fitted for dresses to further stock her already fourteen closets of couture. Zani Gugelmann, Amanda Hearst, Byrdie Bell, Olivia Palermo, and Tinsley Mortimer will also be making trips to catch up with Fabiola in the front row and practice acceptable socialite French (Lacroix, Gaultier, and Dior).
Alexis Bryan and Elizabeth Saltzman of Vanity Fair presented a portrait series of Grace Kelly for the benefit of the Princess Grace Foundation atop the Gramercy Park Hotel. Some of the showcased pictures were taken by the the Mario Testino of his day, French photographer Philippe Halsman. Ironically, his grandson Oliver Halsman Rosenberg is now beginning a portrait series on New York socialites.
Genevieve Jones made well as she publicly reignited her friendship with Fabiola; Genieve has slowly been coming back to society events, having shed many pounds. Olivia Palermo came with fellow New School student Jack Bryan, Alexis’s half-brother and the son of Shelby Bryan, the long-term paramour of Anna Wintour. The friendly pair lounged together and Jack, described as New York’s Brody Jenner, even commented on Olivia’s physical similarities with Grace Kelly. Fiona Scarry was also there, though, this time pleasantly, without her trademark scowl. Byrdie came with a fresh tan – she spent some time on vacation in the French countryside with her mother, Evelyn Lorentzen-Bell.
Other socials there looking at pictures and sipping cocktails were Marina Rust Connor, Jennifer Creel, Rachel Roy, Allison Sarofim, Olivia Chantecaille, Elise Overland, Meredith Melling Burke, and Annie Churchill.
Photographs (from top): 1. Alexis Bryan and Elizabeth Saltzman, 2. Genevieve Jones and Fabiola Beracasa, 3. Byrdie Bell, Rachel Roy, 4. Olivia Palermo and Jack Bryan.
