Clockwise from top left: Platinum, Fancy Brownish Yellow Diamond and Diamond Ring, Harry Winston, Estimate $250/350,000; Platinum, 18 Karat Gold, Ruby and Diamond Necklace, Van Cleef & Arpels, France, circa 1950, Estimate $150,000-200,000; Platinum and Diamond Ring, Estimate $400/600,000; Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond and Diamond Pendant-Necklace, Van Cleef & Arpels, New York, 1978, Estimate $1.5/2 million.

Tomorrow morning, Sotheby’s opens its Magnificent Jewels collection, where breathtaking pieces owned by Estée Lauder, Evelyn Lauder and Jayne Wrightsman go on display. I was invited for a sneak preview this morning and found a few I’d be willing to do some serious over-time for. Yellow diamonds are my weakness, so this 20.10 carat Harry Winston canary diamond ring caught my eye. However, my neck started to get jealous, so the Van Cleef & Arpels “Heart of Windsor” necklace of Estée’s (formerly owned by the Duchess of Windsor) is also on the list. If rubies are more your speed, Estée’s Van Cleef & Arpels ruby and diamond extravaganza should do the trick. The best part? All proceeds from the Mrs. Lauders' jewelry will go to the Breast Cancer Research Fund. Now, that’s my idea of sweet charity.

Images: Property from the Collection of Estée Lauder, Sold to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Ryan McNamara

Promising a “multi-sensorial experience” redolent of the most anarchic Surrealist events, Performa saluted that pioneering movement last night at its annual benefit ball with a tribute to Relâche, the groundbreaking ballet staged by Francis Picabia and composer Erik Satie in 1924. Revelers showed up at the Surrealist soiree in fanciful concoctions of black and white, though for craftier types wanting to ramp up their look, there were costuming stations chock-a-block with sculptural forms, hats, and even a pair of drooping breasts painted on to a canvas necklace.

Left to right: Cindy Sherman, Maria Cornejo and RoseLee Goldberg; Arizona Muse and Elizabeth Gilpin

While a 12-piece orchestra played selections from Satie, conceptual photographer Ryan McNamara, playing the role of Picabia, led a chorus line of mostly men in white leotards in his own reimagining of Relâche—then left them grounded once he was hoisted by ropes high aloft the 500 guests. As McNamara dangled overhead for the duration of dinner, guests including Cindy Sherman, gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, curator Massimilio Gioni and Zero designer Maria Cornejo tucked into the Dali and Magritte-inspired menu—stuffed quail served in gilded birdcages anyone?—and wondered aloud at what, precisely, they were eating. (For the record: urchins, snails, root vegetables.) The piece de resistance, however, was the Surrealist set, meant to occasionally blind the crowd and fashioned from 500 gold-painted vinyl records, each with a lightbulb inside of it.

Clockwise from top left: Ryan McNamara dangling above dinner; Birdcage as centerpiece; Milly and Arne Glimcher; Sia performs

The evening’s honoree, fittingly, was curator and art historian Milly Glimcher, whose historical exhibition “Happenings: New York, 1958-1963” at the Pace gallery this past spring documented the early days of the city’s Fluxus movement, which were inspired in part by the performances of the Surrealists and Dadists. Sitting at Glimcher’s table were Carolee Scheemann and Red Grooms, those Fluxus artists whose own experiments paved the way for many of the younger artists in the room, among them Adam Pendleton, Liz Magic Laser and McNamara. Pop songstress Sia topped off the evening and savoring it all was Performa’s founder and driving force RoseLee Goldberg, who has helped guide the once-fringe medium to center stage. If in doubt, just look at how performance art has stormed the barricades at MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Biennial and even the Academy Awards. Watch for Performa 13, the biennial’s fifth edition, running November 1-24, 2013.

Photos: Clint Spaulding/PatrickMcMullan.com

I’m looking forward to attending the opening tonight of “Call Me Home,” at the Carte Blanche Gallery in San Francisco’s Mission district. Gallery owner Gwen Lafage chose five non-native San Franciscans to celebrate the first anniversary of her gallery’s opening its doors. Each of the depictions of the foggy city have their own aesthetic, but share in the complexities and beauty of this dramatic city. If you aren’t in the Bay Area, you can visit Carte Blanche’s website to search for prints with their web-based sales component which allows you to browse, discover, and buy online...perfect gifts for all your budding art collector friends.

Work by Esmeralda Ruiz.

Work by Alan George.

Work by Charity Vargas.

When dear friend Fran Cutler called me about the Voguing ball that she was planning in conjunction with amFAR, I was so excited! So many of my friends came to support the cause and 'vogue!' It was a major event with a major turn out—the 'Voguing ball to end all Voguing balls.'xoxo—Edward Enninful

The action at the W Love Hangover Ball.

The reaction! Derek Blasberg, Karlie Kloss, Lily Donaldson, Jason Wu and Bryan Boy.

Supermodel realness with Karlie Kloss and Lily Donaldson.

Love this video that my friend Derek Blasberg made, "This is How You Vogue":

Inspired by Liu Wen's fresh off duty look (above), we're rethinking the graphic tee. In neutral or bright shades, there's a new way to be bold. Click below to see the best of this Fashion Week Street Style staple.



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Photo: Adam Katz Sinding

Worn by everyone from Chloë Sevigny and Stella Schnabel to a portfolio of fabulous supermodels (Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Daria Werbowy) in last month’s Paris Vogue, BLK DNM’s leather jackets have long been a brand favorite. Now, Johan Lindeberg has upped their want/need quotient with his latest project: a collection of 8 ultra-luxe, limited-edition jackets crafted from textured leather and shearling. Each is made-to-order in New York and can be customized accordingly.

Luxury leather jackets, $3,500-$4,000 at Colette in Paris and BLK DNM’s stores in New York and Stockholm.

From left: Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Cotton printed textile, 20th century; Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Peplos, 1910− 1920

The late couturier Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo may be best known for such iconic gowns as the Delphos—a body-hugging shift of finely pleated silk—but a new exhibition at New York’s Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, conceived and curated by Oscar de la Renta, sheds light on the breadth of Fortuny’s creative talent and artistic familial pedigree.

From left: Mrs. William Wetmore modeling a Delphos gown in front of Fortuny fabric. Originally published in Vogue, December 15, 1935; Countess Elsie Lee Gozzi wearing an Eleanora dress, 1920s.

During his eponymous atelier’s 40-year reign from 1906 to 1946, Fortuny dressed a who’s-who of society originals—from Marchesa Casati and Isadora Duncan to Peggy Guggenheim and Gloria Vanderbilt. Though he found his calling in textile and clothing design, Fortuny trained as a painter, no doubt inspired by his parents: His father, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, was one of Spain’s most important artists, while his mother descended from a long and celebrated line of artists, curators, and collectors. De la Renta’s Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy, opening today, brings together a selection of his dresses,  paintings, lithographs, and photographs, all set against key works by his creative forebears, lending a unique historical perspective. Not to be overlooked are the exhibition walls themselves—all draped in Fortuny’s signature sumptuous fabrics.

Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy will be on display at the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute through March 30.

Photos: Top, from left: Courtesy of Fortuny Inc. and the Riad Family; courtesy of the Museo del Traje, Madrid. Bottom, from left: Photograph by Lusha Nelson | Copyright © Condé Nast Publications; photograph by Edward Thaver Monroe, courtesy of the Riad Family.

Finding one great gift can be tricky, but our intrepid Beauty Director, Jane Larkworthy, rounded up 30 fantastic finds. Check back every day, right up until Christmas (for you last-minute shoppers) to see her latest picks.

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Burberry Body Crystal fragrance: The rose and iris scent is encased in this limited edition Burberry Body Crystal Baccarat bottle.

The dining room at Bill's Food & Drink in Midtown.

The Lion and Crown have become such staples in the fashion flock’s eating habits downtown and uptown, respectively, that it was only a matter of time before the owners brought their brand of modernized old New York to midtown. After all, even the chicest of diners must occasionally venture into that waylay station between the West Village and Upper East Side. Enter Bill’s Food & Drink, a multi-floor, all-American restaurant housed in an 1890s brownstone, once home to the Prohibition Era speakeasy, Bill’s Gay Nineties. The former tenant’s piano holds court in the downstairs bar and with help from designer Meg Sharpe, the owners set about preserving much of the building’s past while making it 2012-ready: original moldings line the main dining room, there are circa 1940s murals on the first floor and round silver dollars in bar’s floor; mixed in is a sculpture by Michael Combs, meat paintings by William Beenie and antique oil paintings, maps and line drawings sourced from auction houses in the Hudson Valley and London’s Portobello Market.

As for the food, don’t be fooled by the selection of prime-aged beef and veal on the menu.

“We don’t really consider ourselves a steakhouse, more a classic American bar and grill with our homey, bistro feel,” explains Sean Largotta a partner of the Crown Group Hospitality (John DeLucie and Mark Amadei round out the owners). Homemade pasta, classics like chilled seafood salad and Florida stone crab claws, and all manner of potato preparations help round out the offerings. Cocktails are contemporary riffs on prohibition-style beverages—the Bill’z Royal Rickey has Aylesbury Duck vodka, cedia acai berry, chartreuse and fresh ginger lemonade—for those who like their booze with a side of sly subversion.

Bill’s Food & Drink is currently open for dinner and will start lunch service in December. 57 East 54th St, 212.518.2727

Melania Trump and Katie Becker

It’s rare to get a group of beauty editors to gather at the early hour of 8am for an event, but when Melania Trump invites you to breakfast at Jean-Georges to discuss her new skincare line, you do it. Luckily, I was seated right next to the lovely Solvenia-born former model and now mother of two boys (her yummy cherry red Givenchy Antigona Satchel joined our table as well) and we got to talking about—what else?—where she goes for her perfectly groomed hair, nails, and skin. We should have guessed the answer would be “at home,” but in typical Trump fashion, she actually has her own spa. As in, a personal spa that she had built for herself in the Upper East Side penthouse she shares with Donald after the birth of her first boy. Among her stop-in specialists is manicurist Emilie Lagmay, who Trump met at Warren-Tricomi at The Plaza. One look will tell you Trump’s a stickler for her beauty routine, so it’s no surprise we’ll being seeing skin care products with her name in them come spring. Stay tuned…