COURI GOSSIP: The New Season
Photo Contributions by Patrick McMullan
Met Gala, NYBotanical Garden, Race of Hope,
Gallery House, SOFO, Holiday House, 9/11 & Carlton Fine Art
Billie Eilish & Timothée Chalamet @Met Gala
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
Amanda Gorman, Billie Eilish, Timothée Chalamet, and Naomi Osaka co-chaired this year’s Met Gala. Tom Ford, Adam Mosseriand Anna Wintour were the event’s Honorary Chairs. Eleanor Lambert, the legendary fashion publicist, started the Met Gala in 1948 to raise funds for the department. The Gala, New York’sanswer to the Oscars, has raised over $186 million since Wintour took over fromDianaVreeland in 1995. The Costume Institute will present a two-part exhibitiontitledIn America: A Lexicon of FashionandIn America: An Anthology ofFashion.These shows celebrate the 75thAnniversary of The Costume Institute, acollection of over 33,000items sampling fashion from the 15thcentury to thepresent.
Anna Wintour Costume Center
The Met Gala marked the opening of part one of the exhibition, which features 80 ensembles that define American fashion, on display in the Anna Wintour CostumeCenter. Part two is a collaboration of The Costume Institute and the American Wing, which explores the development of fashion throughout history in the United States, opening May 5th, 2022.
Nicky Hilton & Gillian Hearst @NY Botanical Garden
Georgina Bloomberg, Gillian Hearst, Ashley McDermott, Kate Davis, Lili Buffett, Sharon Jacob, Holly Lowen, Deborah Royce, and Janet Montag served as the co-chairs of this year’s New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) Gala. The Garden, founded in 1891, is one ofAmerica’s glittering crown jewels.The evening was a celebration of KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, the exhibition featuring installations by artist Yayoim Kusama that is open through October 31st.
Veuve Clicquot hosted the champagne hour forg uests including Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Brooke Shields. Karlie Kloss, Alek Wek, Prabal Gurung, Cristina Cuomo, Nacho Figueras and Delfina Blaquier and others of that ilk and stripe. Kusama recently collaborated with the brand to design the new vintage bottles with her signature dots, bright colors, and artistic style—spreading a message of joy, hope, and optimism. N’est-ce pas?On the dance floor were Cynthia Rowley, Nigel Barker, Benjamin Bronfman, Brian Atwood, Jake Deutsch, Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl. DeBeers Jewelers supported the benefit, which raised $1.3 million. nybg.org
Katie Couric @ Race of Hope
Katie Couric told a crowd of runners in the village of Southampton, “I stink at running so I’m going to walk at the back of the race.” The TV legend, who will launch her autobiography “Going There” this fall, was decked out in a bright yellow and black outfit.“My husband said I looked like a bumblebee,” she quipped. The perky star was serving as the Grand Marshall of Audrey Gruss’s Hope for Depression Research Foundation’s 5K Race, which raised $325,000. Participants included Karen and Richard LeFrak, Jenny and John Paulson, Jamee and Peter Gregory, and a man who ran while pushing a double baby carriage. Who else would tell you these things?Also, there was a slew of runners and their dogsincluding Janna Bullock with her best friend Sebastian, a Bernedoodle. AlthoughKatie finished at the back of the pack, she got a gold medal modeled after theOlympics when she crossed the finish line, as did all the other racers.raceofhopeseries.com
Anne Heche& Peter Thomas Roth @ GalerieHouse
Anne Heche and her boyfriend, skincare mogul Peter Thomas Roth, toured theGalerie Houseof Art & Designin Sag Harbor. Lisa Fayne Cohen the founder oftheeventhosted the opening party which benefited the construction of the StonyBrook Southampton Hospital’s East Hampton Emergency Department.southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu
ball, hit a ball and runthe bases. That kind of line of work seemed a littleinsignificant in light of what was happening. Everything started turning aroundwhen we started visiting people at the Javits Center, the hospital and the armory;when they started saying ‘the Yankees are here, the Yankees are here,’andit gavepeople a smile in that moment. It changed the whole thing for me and in the WorldSeries we were playing, we were playing for something bigger than myself, biggerthan the team, bigger than major league baseball.We were playing for the City ofNew York and the country.”Leading the applause were Junior League’s SofieMählkvist, artist Linjie Deng,attorneyPaul Koenigsberg,dermatologistDr.MarieHayag and her husband Will Jarosak. The gallery also opened a showof Fazzino’ssignature3Dpoppieces. A portion for the proceeds from the sale of the9/11pieceandthelimited-edition prints will benefit the museum. carltonfa.com
Susan & David Rockefeller @ SOFO
Susan and David Rockefeller, John Paulson and Jean Shafiroff were among thesupporters of the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center’s(SOFO) 32nd Anniversary Benefit,The Journey Forward: Reconnecting ThroughNature,in Bridgehampton. The event was hosted by Andrew Sabin aka“Salamander Commander,” who founded the organization in 1988 to protect theecosystem. The event honored Kim and Greg Lippmann, Dr. Indy Burke, MichaelB. Gerrard and Chef Kerry Heffernan. Hosts and guests included Bitcoinbillionaire BrockPierce, CaroleCrist, Dottie Herman, Diana Aceti, Chef AlexGuarnaschelli andCEO of Lambay Irish Whiskey,Kevin Richards, who was oneof the evening’ssponsors.Also in the mix were Dick Grasso, Trammell Crow,Anke and Jürgen Friedrich and Jason Belkin.The fun party was catered by AndreaCorrelia’s Elegant Affairs.sofo.org
Chef Jean Georges @Holiday
HouseAshley and Andrea Stark and interior designers Campion Platt and Kenneth Alpertco-chaired IrisDankner’sHoliday House Tabletop event to benefit the BreastCancer Research Foundation (BCRF). The party, titled “Coming Together,”featured 13 designers including Beth Donner, Brett Helsham, Brittany Marom,Christina Nielsen,and Cambria x Jiun Ho,who all created fanciful tabletops at theTopping Rose House in Bridgehampton. Chef Jean Georges whipped upthedelicioushors d’oeuvres.Holiday House has raised two million dollars for breastcancer research since 2008. holidayhamptons.com
Maye Musk @AngelBal
