Silvia Venturini Fendi tapped haute eyewear designer Thierry Lasry to spin four new styles of sunglasses for Fendi this spring, a development that the brand feted threefold last night, with a cocktail in the Avenue Montaigne flagship, followed by a private dinner and then an after-party at Castel. Early on, it became clear that the evening would be an eclectic one: Alessandra Ambrosio and Elena Perminova posed for pictures inside the door, while farther on Kris Jenner chatted with Miroslava Duma (who did her own Lasry collab a couple years back), and the designer gamely posed with fans and models in a Dolce Vita photo booth setup at the back of the store. A couple of hours later at Castel, guests took turns trying on the new shades and road testing the first-ever Twitter Mirror to post images on the Fendi account using the hashtag #FendiAndThierryLasry. “It’s a fun mix of sophistication, craziness, youth, and old-school glamour,” offered Noomi Rapace, on her last night before heading home to start promoting her new thriller, Child 44. Leonetta Luciano Fendi, the youngest of the Fendi clan, arrived with a pack of friends and headed downstairs, where Caroline Vreeland was tearing up the dance floor with the collab’s face, Anna Cleveland, and anyone else who was game as her boyfriend, actor Cameron Klippsten, looked on. “The thing about Thierry’s glasses is when they touched the bridge of my fucking nose, I felt like I was glamorous once and for all,” said Vreeland. “You could be in your worst state and you put those on, you’re perfection.”
Meanwhile, over at Colette, Pierre Hardy, Ambush jewelry designer Yoon, and several of the industry’s most influential editors gathered for a quiet dinner in honor of Chitose Abe’s new tome, Sacai: A to Z, published by Rizzoli. (Abe created a special boxed edition just for Colette.) “Sacai’s story is not yet complete—it’s going to continue for many more years—but I wanted to create a kind of dictionary on what Sacai is all about,” Abe told Style.com. “Colette has been behind me from the start, so tonight is really a thank you to all those who have supported me.” Offered Yoon, “Sacai is really sexy, but in a strong way. What I really admire about her, as an Asian woman designer, it takes a lot of tenacity and vision to keep going at it. That’s rare, and I really respect her for it.”
—Tina Isaac-Goizé
