Gio’s Journal: Costume Drama
“I completely missed the theme for Kanye West and Anja Rubik’s Halloween party at the Darby, a club in Manhattan. It was a romantic gypsy scene, and I went as a bat-superhero version of myself because my Twitter name is @Batgiovanna. There were buckets of all these teacups, so I picked up a teapot, put vodka in it, and started serving everyone. I will have to bring my own cup to parties from now on.”
“Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne concert at Madison Square Garden was spectacular, supercool. The afterparty was downstairs in the dressing rooms, and there was a photo booth. So Eugenie Niarchos [right], Jessica Hart [left], and I were playing around. Then Vlad came in, and Kanye said, ‘Can I take a picture too?’ I was like, ‘Of course!’ I love him so much—I’m in the ‘official’ fashion fan club of Kanye.”
“This is Keren Craig helping Francisco Costa fix Georgina Chapman’s mask as she gets ready at the Beverly Hills Hotel for Kate Hudson’s Halloween party. Isn’t that the most big-time fashion Halloween moment?”
“I went to the Breeders’ Cup in Kentucky with my boyfriend, Vlad; Stavros and Eugenie Niarchos; and some girlfriends of Stavros’s. I lost so much money because I kept betting on horses based on their names, like Stopshoppingmaria and Pure Gossip. We called ourselves the Kentucky Fried Chicks—we were craving fried chicken the whole time, so we had it on the plane back.”
“My friend Alice Dellal showed up like this for a shoot I was doing in New York. I love that she’s wearing a cropped top in a rock ’n’ roll way—not too sexy—with her high-waist jeans.”
“You know when you put rings close to the sink and worry they’ll fall down the drain? I was in the bathroom at the Beverly Hills Hotel and realized the perfect spot for my Silvia Furmanovich and Carla Amorim rings was on my Yves Saint Laurent mascara!”
“These are from this Bakelite curator-dealer I first met in Milan. Later, I was on a shoot in Portofino and going crazy looking for vintage Bakelite, and I just ran into him on the street there. Serendipity! The palette of colors is exquisite.”
