Louis Vuitton and W Magazine Kick Off Awards Season With an Intimate Dinner

The best parties in Los Angeles are house parties. Naturally, W Magazine and Louis Vuitton inaugurated the start of a long awards season with a dinner party at a steel mansion perched high above Beverly Hills on January 8. Co-hosted by W Editor in Chief Sara Moonves and Louis Vuitton Artistic Director Nicolas Ghesquière, the gathering included a mix of actors, directors, and musicians who will reconvene on Sunday at the Golden Globes.

Unlike at the Critics’ Choice Awards last weekend—where the meal went viral for being little more than a mouse’s ration of grapes and cheese—this crowd was properly fed. A three-course meal was served by Michael Cimarusti, the chef behind Providence, widely considered L.A.’s best seafood restaurant. Guests from BlackPink’s Lisa to Ana de Armas tucked into king crab with caviar and wagyu with nettles.

Just about everyone and every film projected to win showed up: Bugonia’s Emma Stone, Aidan Delbis, and Yorgos Lanthimos; Sentimental Value’s Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas; One Battle After Another’s Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor; Sinners’ Wunmi Mosaku; Train Dream’s Joel Edgerton; and Song Sung Blue’s Kate Hudson. So, too, did the actors nominated in the Golden Globes’ television categories: Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn, The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa, Adolescence’s Erin Doherty, The Beast in Me’s Matthew Rhys, The Diplomat’s Keri Russell, Severance’s Britt Lower, and Task’s Mark Ruffalo.

The Haim sisters arrived color-coordinated, in various shades of pink and orange Louis Vuitton outfits, while W’s Editor at Large Lynn Hirschberg caught up with W’s newest Best Performances Issue cover stars, including Fanning, Reinsve, and Infiniti. Lanthimos' casts—past and present—chatted: Ruffalo talked with his Poor Things co-star, Stone, and congratulated Delbis on his Bugonia breakout. Meanwhile, Russell gave kudos to the Sentimental Value crew.

As anyone from Los Angeles will tell you, the nonstop rain over Christmas made the city a total downer. So it felt like a good omen that the skies finally cleared, offering a perfect view of the Hollywood Hills beyond the infinity pool. Here’s an exclusive look inside the night.