Blue and Red
Kim Kardashian turned out for Tiffany's high jewelry launch in Manhattan, while Porter magazine drew a raft of stars in L.A. BY MAXINE WALLY, LEIGH NORDSTROM, JEAN E. PALMIERI AND ERICKA FRANKLIN
Tiffany celebrated its Blue Book in Manhattan, while Porter magazine drew stars to the red carpet in L.A.
Under normal circumstances, West 24th Street at 11th Avenue in New York is a quiet, dark block at night. But on Tuesday evening, Tiffany & Co. lit it up by installing a red carpet outside of Studio 525, where the company held a party celebrating its new Tiffany Blue Book Collection called The Four Seasons of Tiffany.
Kim Kardashian, Rachel Brosnahan, Mary J. Blige, Priyanka Chopra and Zoë Kravitz were just some of the celebrities who showed up to support the jewelry brand.
When Kardashian stepped into the place, a crush of paparazzi surrounded the perimeter of the carpet, which was illuminated by blinding spotlights. She did some oncamera interviews, and hugged reporters she knew personally.
“Am I, like, so sweaty?” she asked. Her mother Kris Jenner was also in attendance with her boyfriend Corey Gamble. They arrived about 15 minutes before Kardashian did, and went into the party. When she was finished with press, she walked to the entrance, then inquired about her mom.
“She’s already inside? Of course, she is,” Kardashian said.
Eyes were out for Chopra, who herself wore an engagement ring from Tiffany’s that her fiancé Nick Jonas gave her. She said he and his brothers embarked on a covert mission to purchase the rock for Nick’s “future wife.”
“I’m still getting used to the idea of it,” Chopra laughed.
The allure of the muse was the topic of the night up at Sotheby’s, where the New York Academy of Art hosted their 27th annual Take Home a Nude event.
Foregoing their usual single honoree, the Academy recognized 11 muses, including Jerry Hall, Helena Christensen, Brooke Shields and more, who attended alongside the likes of Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber (the friendly exes chatted with friends and even sat for the auction near one another), Padma Lakshmi and Will Cotton.
Watts, an avid collector, said she’d placed a couple bids but “I’ve actually run out of wall space. I’m trying to be modest tonight.”
Hall arrived with her husband Rupert Murdoch; the pair posed briefly for photos and Murdoch waited patiently for his wife while she spoke with reporters.
“It’s very nice and flattering to have been painted, six times by Andy [Warhol], and a few other artists,” Hall said of her muse status. “It’s very flattering to inspire someone to do something beautiful.”
Shields is a longtime fan of the event, and marked her fifth one on Tuesday night.
“There is very little pretension — none actually — in this room," she said. "The art community has always been very personal to me, and I think it’s probably because I’m not a figurative artist, I don’t paint, but I’ve been surrounded by artists my entire life via my mom — she just had an eye. She understood it. I was lucky enough to be in the company of people like Andy — oh, that sounded obnoxious. Warhol! That sounds really — ‘let me get my invisible cigarette and tap it!’”
Just then a margarita, black salt on its rim, appeared for her. “This is a thing of beauty!” she thanked its escort profusely. “I have a reputation around here — I’m proud of myself.”
Don’t expect JJ Redick to cajole his Philadelphia 76ers teammates into pulling a LeBron James — teaming with a fashion designer to create look-alike outfits for them to wear for their arrival at the arena.
Although he likes to dress stylishly, “I’m not trying to be attention seeking,” he said. “When I come to the arena, my mind is on basketball, not thinking I’m walking a runway.”
Redick was in New York to help welcome Chris Wallace,
Mr Porter’s new U.S. editor, to the company at a dinner hosted by the company at Raoul’s in SoHo. Wallace wrote a feature on Redick in a recent issue of the Mr Porter Journal, so the athlete returned the favor by stopping by for cocktails at the event.
Meanwhile, Porter magazine had much of Hollywood in attendance over in L.A. for its annual Incredible Women
Gala, where Charlize Theron, Tiffany Haddish, Alison Brie, Mahershala Ali and Kate Beckinsale were out in support of, well, women.
“It’s simple,” said Miranda
Kerr. “Women are coming out and talking about how they feel."
While there were satirical moments onstage questioning a woman’s ability to ask for a raise (performed by Anna Kendrick), and Kendrick and Haddish took off their heels in support of Minnie Driver’s pained feet, there were also several moments filled with urgency. Amber Heard read a letter that she originally penned for Porter.
“You, like me, don’t see yourself as a victim, but rather as a growing class of women. We have inherited far too much to be resigned to just this, and together we are far too strong to excuse this any longer. So as I write this today, every woman who is out there suffering in silence, you are not alone. You may not see this, but we are there. Your sisters are everywhere.”