The details on Calvin Klein’s FIRST LA soireee

by: Lauren Brokaw - February 1st, 2010

Jean Shin, Francisco Costa, and Italo Zucchelli

Hier Soir (last night), art was in the air in Los Angeles … finally !! This month has been deemed L.A. Arts month, with the night starting off at the Pacific Design Center for the Art Los Angeles exhibit, followed by the chicest of events (put on by Nadine Johnson and associates), Calvin Klein and the Los Angeles Nomadic Division’s (LAND) cocktail event for Calvin Klein Collection for Spring Summer 2010 and L.A. art month.

THIS WAS CALVIN KLEIN’S FIRST EVENT IN LA EVER !! Wtf took so long, he has events in NYC all the time… lol. I will forgive everyone at CK, just because this event was one worth waiting for!

People say location location location, right? Well, this event was on the fabulous Melrose, next door to the Balenciaga store, and across the street from the Pacific Design Center: Gold star!

Incase you didn’t know, Francisco Costa is the creative director of Calvin Klein and Italo Zucchelli is the menswear design director.

The very cool art installations were done by Jean Shin, Jennifer West, and Neville Wakefield.

The focal point of entrance was perfect, why you ask? Pieces of fabric in the same colors as the clothing from the Spring collection were cut out in funky origami shapes and hung from various points in the ceiling. This collection was very plain and simple (they brought the more interesting pieces of the collection to the event), so I really enjoyed how they added these cutouts from the ceiling over the dresses that were standing from the floor; it made the spring outfits pop out a lot.

Calvin Klein Collection hung from the ceiling, actress Melissa George and Nicky Hilton stroll through the hanging clothes.

I’m now going to take you on a tour of the grounds of the event:

This was the right side of the large and long room that was behind the entrance.

Mickey Church

Once you walked all the way to the back, there was a stair case leading you up to the second floor. The second floor was composed of this room, which had very interesting videos playing, followed by a sitting area with a lookout of the first floor, and lastly, there was a room in which the lights changed color and menswear hung from the ceiling.

Caroline started to take pictures of the menswear and all of the sudden the room turned dark in the middle of her picture…very unexpected and was comical for us. Thru the tunnel of Calvin Klein Collection for men to the roof!

After the 2nd floor, you walk up 2 flights of stairs to the 3rd floor….where the REAL party was! The 3rd floor was a very large rooftop, where 150+ guests played in the dark. Guests sipped champagne, wine, ginger beer, and Pellegrino, while sampling hors d’oeuvres and delish mini desserts.

Caroline loved how there were trash buckets filled with Veuve Clicquot.

That concludes our tour of the grounds!

Guests left with sleek CK gift bags with Calvin Klein perfume and cologne.

Lauren and Caroline at the Calvin Klein event

GUEST LIST: The eclectic guest list included: Dasha Zhukova (editor of Pop Magazine, art collector and girlfriend and baby mama of Roman Abromovich) came with her pal Olympia Scarry (artist, London socialite and granddaughter of children’s book writer Richard Scarry), both wore white dresses and black shoes, Olympia’s shoes are Givenchy from Spring 2010. Australian artist P.C. Valmorbida and Stavros Niachros were also in attendance with Dash and Olympia. Actress Clemence Posey (LOVE HER), Elle Magazine’s Joe Zee, Twilight’s Twilight’s Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli (Kellan in the new “Mark Walberg” of Calvin Klein – look for his bare chested billboards soon!!), L.A, designer Jasmin Shokrian, Socialite China Chow, New York converts Adrian Muzinich and Will Koppleman, Tallulah Harlech, daughter of Chanel muse Amanda Harlech, Kate Bosworth with her stylist (my former boss) Cher Coulter (no Alex Skarsgaard in sight), actress Ali Larter with husband Hayes MacArthur, Prism gallery owner and LA native Jared Najjar, designer Santino Rice, actor/ musician Jared Leto, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Trammell from True Blood (ahhh Jason Stackhouse!), Lady Victoria Hervey, Brittany Gastineau with a flock of very gorgeous guys, stylist George Kotsiopolous, actress Ginnifer Goodwin, actress Milla Jovovich (L.A. native!) with husband Paul W.S. Anderson (LA native), actress Penelope Cruz, LA friends Mickey Church and Charlie Eisner, actor Eric balfour, actress Melissa George, actress Monet Mazur (L.A. native!), Teen Vogue West coast editor Lisa Love, Style.com writer Derek Blasberg, stylist Jessica Paster with publicist Cade Hudson, actress Maggie Grace, Photographer Mark Hunter aka the Cobrasnake, Marc Edouard Leon, Designer Magda Berliner with husband photographer Alex Berliner, Molly Sims, LACMA board member Chris Hopkins, realtor Jay Luchs, Saweda Kamara Bullock, Elliot Hans and Kaya B of Literature Noir clothing, Maverick Records’ Guy O’seary, British ex-pat Nellee Hooper, model Coco Rocha (in town to cover the Grammy’s for MTV Canada), actor Ryan Phillippe with girlfriend Abbie Cornish in Calvin Klein Collection from Spring 2010, actor Matt Boomer from White Collar, socialite Brooke Davenpoort … and many more!