Partygoers Pile Into Dirty French for Moncler’s Valentine’s Dinner

The post-show crowd was swooning over the romance of the Moncler presentation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but for production maestro Etienne Russo, the assignment was elementary. New York? Valentine’s Day? Who you gonna call? Cupid, stupid. Which meant it was a pretty loved-up mob that made it to the Ludlow Hotel for a dinner hosted by ever-welcoming Moncler supremo Remo Ruffini and cooked up by resto-of-the-moment Dirty French. There were the couples we already know and love from life, like Fabien Baron and Ludivine Poiblanc, and Johannes Huebl and Olivia Palermo. Then there were the delightful togethernesses created by circumstance and/or placement: Palermo and her Reiss jeans (the cut of which was so spectacular, we were relieved to learn that she’d bought in bulk against a future shortage); Robert Rabensteiner and the glorious Cordula Reyer; fresh from Istanbul, Terron Schaefer and Moncler’s PR maven, Emanuela Schmeidler; jeweler Sabine Ghanem and her fiancé’s uncle, William Harding. Ghanem’s engagement emerald temporarily tore my attention away from the black bass with holy basil pistou. Just as the unruly throng was finally shoehorned into its seats for dinner, Naomi Campbell dropped in with an entourage including Mary J. Blige and Bethann Hardison. It felt like the room was already filled to the rafters, but somehow the new arrivals were accommodated. It was Valentine’s Day, after all.