Uptown Meets Downtown

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Carmen Dell’Orifice, Iris Apfel, Isabel Toledo, Ruben Toledo, and Maggie Norris

Matthew Modine

Down on Broadway and 28th, this past Tuesday night, at the penthouse atelier of Isabel Toledo and Ruben Toledo, Glenda Bailey, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT hosted a cocktail reception for Isabel on behalf of her Couture Council of The Museum at FIT.

So popular are the Toledos, and the Couture Council, that there was a line around the block waiting to get into the building’s rather small elevator which held only six at a time.

A sneak peek of some of the dresses from Holy Toledo! Isabel Toledo and the Art of Fashion, which opens June 19, 2009 through September 26, 2009.

Arrivals were greeted (and later bid farewell) by Ruben at the elevator door. The penthouse had three floors open to the guests with views of the Empire State, a few blocks away, and the old New York Life building to the east. And it was a beautiful summer night in New York, thanks in part to the Oronoco Rum (mojitos!) which were donated by Diageo.

Almost two hundred guests joined Couture Council founders Liz Peek, Yaz Hernandez, and Sarah Wolfe and FIT President Dr. Joyce F. Brown and designers such as Isaac Mizrahi, Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, Patrick Robinson, Peter Som, Adi, Ange, and Gabi Three Asfour; Yigal Azrouël; Jeffrey Banks; Maria Cornejo; Christian Cota; Stephen Dweck; Eric Javits; Gemma Kahng; Victor Costa; Phillip Lim; Michael Vollbracht; Arnold Scaasi; and Jonathan Adler. Also, Matthew Modine, Kelly Bensimon, Simon Doonan, Carmen, Fern Mallis, Eric Villency, Iris and Carl Apfel, Alexandra Lebenthal, Bobby Zarem, Mario Buatta, Allison and Jay Aston, Woody Johnson, and Hilary Knight.

Adelina Wong Ettelson and Christine Cachot

Celeste Livingston and The Baroness

Alyse Myer and Deb Shriver

Alexandra Adame, Christian Cota, and Gabriel Rivera

Douglas Hannant, Adi ThreeAsFour, and Fredrick Anderson

Avena Gallagher and Amanada Garcia Santana

Caragh Wilson, Thiele Bule, and Kate Hudson

Andrea Selvy and Emmett McCarthy

Beatriz Vidal

Cathy Hardwick

Maggie Norris and Isabel Toledo

Yigal Azrouel

Eric Javitz and Vera Wang

Fiona Tilley and Cathy Hardwick

Joe Zee and Joanne Pailey

Anita Sarko and Marilu Menendez

Carol Ramer, Joey Arias, and Valerie Steele

Jana Pasquel and Pat Kerr

Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin, Rachel Tanski, and Janet Tanski French

Jana Pasquel and Ruben Toledo

Cynthia Frank, Evelyn Bell, and Sharon Hoge

Iris Apfel, Michael Vollbracht, and Carmen Dell’Orifice

Linda Ogawa and friend

Mickey Boardman and Yigal Azrouel

Rosemary Ponzo and Cheri Fein

Pamela Fiori and Linda Fargo

Stephen Knoll and Lisa Malitz

Simon Doonan and Wendy Goodman

Steven Sumner and Glenda Bailey

The Cinema Society and Mulberry hosted a screening of “Then She Found Me,” directed by Helen Hunt, making her directorial debut. Ms. Hunt, who also stars in the film, was on hand, along with co-stars Matthew Broderick, Colin Firth and Bette Midler, for the screening which was followed by dinner at Nobu 57.

Connie Tavel, Mark Urman, Pamela Koffler, Helen Hunt, Katie Roumel, and Christine Vachon

Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir welcomed a crowd that included Sarah Jessica Parker, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, Mike Myers, Matthew Perry, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Marisa Berenson, Ricki Lake, Kathy Najimy, Gloria Steinem, Mamie Gummer, Natasha Bedingfield, Bernadette Peters, Richard Kind, James Lipton, Heather Matarazzo, Carson Kressley, Amy Sacco, Kelly Bensimon, Irina Pantaeva, Selita Ebanks, Dennis Basso, Ann Dexter-Jones, Mick Rock, Meredith Melling-Burke, Daniel Benedict, Olivia Palermo, Johannes Huebl, Helen and Tim Schifter, Debbie Bancroft, Bettina Zilkha, Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richthofen, co-stars Ben Shenkman, Lynn Cohen and John Benjamin Hickey, Elinor Lipman (who wrote the novel), along with producers Christine Vachon, Connie Tavel, Pamela Koffler, and Katie Roumel, THINKFilm’s Mark Urman, and Mulberry’s Harlan Bratcher and Sarah Geary.

Matthew Perry

Ben and Lauren Shenkman

Natasha Bedingfield

Andrew Saffir and Helen Hunt

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Eleanora and Michael Kennedy

Carson Kressley

Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy

Josh Bernstein

Marisa Berenson, Andrew Saffir, and Debbie Bancroft

Kathy Najimy, Dan Finnerty, and Gloria Steinem

Bette Midler

Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld

Marisa Berenson

Amy Sacco

Bernadette Peters

Debbie Bancroft

Irina Pantaeva

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

Kelly Killoren Bensimon

Mickey Boardman and Sarah Geary

Daniel Benedict

Livia Giuggioli Firth and Colin Firth

John Benjamin Hickey

Liz Vap, Mick Rock, and Jason Weinberg

Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl

Mamie Gummer

Meredith Melling Burke

Niki Beel, Richard Johnson, and Sessa von Richthofen

Ricki Lake

Richard Kind

Kedaki and James Lipton

Selita Ebanks

Toby Usnik, Ann Dexter-Jones, and Harlan Bratcher

Bettina Zilkha, Scott Currie, Dennis Basso, and Rob Banning

Belvedere’s “Downtown meets Uptown” event series continued with “Baise en Ville at the subMercer.” The “night of elegance and seduction” began with an intimate dinner catered by Fiamma’s Fabio Trabocchi for 24 guests at the salon of Kiki de Montparnasse. Guests including Josh Lucas, Damon Dash, Jimmy Jones, Carole Radziwill and nibbled on Crudo of Ahi Tuna, Chilled Summer Tomato Soup, Nova Scotia Lobster, Pine Island Oysters, and Strawberry, Condimento Balsamico, Parmigiano, Basil Ice Cream.

After dinner people moved to the subMercer where they were welcomed by a cellist, a “naughty nurse,” a chess player and two ballerinas floating around, figuratively speaking. Signature Belvedere cocktails, the Sweet and Sour Kiss, the Fleur de Citron and the Watermelon Kick, gave a surge of energy and luxury to the French-themed bash.

Revelers included: Andre Balazs, Andrew Rosen, Bobby Kennedy, Donna d’Cruz, Christopher Breslin, Diego Marroquin, Francesco Clemente, Jane Krakowski, Josh Ralph, Lisa Luna, Moby, Sean Avery, Tom Brown, Terry George, Jason Pomeranc, Jane Mayle and Rain Phoenix.