Party People: Play Ball
Galas, Operas, and designer-perfume launches keep New York’s social set swirling.
Fashion brands love a photo op, and New York boldfacers love a camera. Why not combine the two? Yves Saint Laurent injected a bit of youthful cool into the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night of Manon. Among Met matriarchs like Barbara Walters, Ann Ziff, and Mercedes Bass was a Golden Globes–worthy room of celebs: January Jones (minus the fat suit), Chloë Grace Moretz, and Emma Roberts, to name a few. Not to be left behind, Salvatore Ferragamo enlisted It girls galore (the Richards sisters, Charlotte Ronson, Michelle Harper) to toast its new fragrance, Signorina, at a dinner and afterparty at Julian Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi building, where I Blame Coco (aka Coco Sumner) performed. And Giorgio Armani lured Liam Neeson to the Museum of the City of New York’s Winter Dance, where Neeson said of his outfit: “Everything’s Armani—including the underwear.”
January Jones
Shannan Click and Behati Prinsloo
Julie Macklowe and Zang Toi
Mercedes Bass
Chuck Close
Dree Hemingway
Patricia Clarkson
Emma Roberts
Trevor and Chloë Grace Moretz
Amber Heard
Alexandra Lebenthal
Zani Gugelmann and Jennifer Creel
Liam Neeson and Jamie Tisch
The dinner scene at the Plaza hotel
From left: Rachel Chandler, Alexandra Richards, Bianca Balti, Stella Schnabel, Theodora Richards and Lauren Remington Platt
The scene at dinner
Emma Roberts
Eugenia Silva