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actress Jamie King applies makeup on a volunteer

This week during during New York fashion week, Maybelline New York and CVS are providing a fun beauty retreat for fashionistas, stylists and individuals wishing to get their makeup touched up between shows.  I decide to swing by on Saturday to check out the action….

The day before at the CHOONMOONPARK fashion show stylist Phillip Bloch had mentioned he’d be at the retreat to promote his new book, “The Shopping Diet” which is all about curbing those spending impulses.  Don’t I know it…  However, I am told he isn’t arriving until 3pm.  Unfortunately, that’s when I have to be at designer Vivienne Tam’s show.  Coincidentally, I learn that the makeup artists and makeup at Vivienne’s show are provided by Maybelline.

However, Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szhor (who is rumored to be back on with Ed Westwick) is in the house with her grandma Karen.  She is looking hot as ever and maybe more thanks to her Maybelline makeover.  She loves the new falsies mascara for maximum length lashes.  Actress/model Jamie King also stops by and is even game enough to apply makeup on willing volunteers.  FYI, Jamie stars in a new ABC  show this fall called My Generation.

I also have a lot of fun sampling the beauty products.  Probably my new favorite Maybelline item is a lip stain called Color Sensational.  What’s interesting is that it applies like a magic marker which I’ve never seen before.  It’s matte in texture and seems to last forever so it works well as a base coat.  It also has a yummy berry taste.  I’d personally apply a lip gloss on top for a sexy shine.

Guests also entered the “Be A Sensational Makeup Artist” contest, sponsored by Maybelline New York and CVS/pharmacy. They were able to film themselves creating a makeup look with Maybelline products, then upload it to the contest website.  The lucky winner gets to work backstage with Charlotte Willer (Maybelline’s Global Consulting Makeup Artist) at a  Mercedes Benz Fashion Week show next February.  For more info on the contest, please visit www.besensationalandwin.com.

Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr

It’s the 3rd Annual Hamptons Gala of Best Buddies at the home of Anne Hearst (board member of Best Buddies) and writer Jay McInerney (Bright Lights Big City) who I met last week at Author’s Night and in their foyer I’m greeted by two people in elaborate traditional Southeast Asian attire.  Their straw hats point forward as they bow and their festive purple and gold satin ceremonial dress  shimmers in the light.  I have magically been transported…  We move past them and make our way to a back terrace with a large bar and starched bartenders.  There are countless acres of fenced off land and off in the distance is a sculpture garden and lo and behold an ostrich appears in the horizon.  Too cool… And to the left, a canopied white tent awaits dinner guests for dancing after cocktails…

Some of the guests have taken the Southeast Asian theme to heart and are having a good time with it.  The Platt family are probably the most striking example.  Architect Campion Platt, whose silver hair and blue eyes are a striking contrast against his all black Judo-style suit with wide legs and Mandarin frog closures.  His wife Tatiana Platt, a former top AOL exec and co-founder of Fame Game, is a sexpot in a short version of a traditional Chinese Cheongsam complete with stiletto dominatrix boots.  Their infants complete the picture of domestic bliss in matching outfits.

Xenia, Campion, Tatiana and Fox Platt with Anthony Shriver

Also in attendance is Anthony K. Shriver (Maria Shriver‘s brother and JFK‘s nephew) who is Founder and Chairman of Best Buddies.  Best Buddies International, is a nonprofit that offers opportunities for friendship, employment and leadership development to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  He had a wonderful role model in his mother Eunice who founded the Special Olympics.

My friend Alice knows Anthony and wants to say hi, but it’s like trying to talk to the Mayor tonight.  He has literally not moved more than five feet from where he entered – he is so swamped with people who wish to say hello.  We leave early because we have the Sunflower party at ACE founder Henry Buhl‘s house – which also ended up being a lot of fun.  However, as a result we unfortunately missed a show stopping performance by the Countess de Lesseps where she sang her signature song, “Money Can’t Buy You Class.”

Other notable guests included: Co-chairs Haley and Jason Binn of Hamptons Magazine and Niche Media (great clambake recently), polo player Nic Roldan, Oscar winning producer Marty Richards, artists Hunt Slonem and Peter Tunney (whose art show I attended a few weeks ago), Richard Johnson (editor of Page Six), “So You Think You Can Dance” season 5 winner, Geoffroy van Raemdonck (Managing Director of Louis Vuitton North America) and Buddy Ambassador Brett Banford, etc.

Photos courtesy of Patrick McMullan

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Francisco Costa & Daphne Guinness

While the invite clearly stated Cocktails at Sunset it was one of those typical Hampton’s weekends where we were juggling multiple invitations.  We missed our friend’s store party in Bridgehampton (which bummed me out) and instead headed to the Surf Club in Quogue, a charming town before Southampton.  We were going to a Nantucket style clambake a Merrill Lynch banker friend of Alice’s from Georgetown hosts annually.  The party was right on the beach with a band, lots of food, cheap booze and grosgrain whale belts.  Unfortunately it caused us to miss the sunset at photographer Steven Klein’s estate in Bridgehampton.

The Cocktails at Sunset event hosted by Calvin Klein and Vanity Fair benefiting ACRIA (Aids Community Research Initiative of America),  was created in 1991 and has contributed to the development of more than a dozen medications that have received FDA approval. 

Fyi, Steven is bff’s with Madonna and the site of one of her many infamous horseback riding accidents.

I was first made aware of Steven Klein when I was 18 at USC (I eventually transferred) through my second boyfriend.  He was a top male model who posed for both Steven Klein and Bruce Weber and was known for his sculpted abs.  I just remember my conservative father quizzically looking at his  Zed card, asking where he’d gone to college (he had a high school GED), looking pained and then gruffly saying, “just don’t get pregnant” before abruptly changing the subject.

Needless to say it was dark when we arrived but we could hear the music jamming in the distance (courtesy of Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol and Greg K from The MisShapes) and there were golf carts.  I always love parties with golf carts.

It was quite dark but it seemed as though Steven Klein’s grounds were massive. Hence, Madge’s ability to horseback ride.

The party consisted of an enormous white tent with a silent art auction and white glove bar.  My friend Alice came back and announced “these are the nicest porta potties ever.  They have art work in them!” Hilarious… Basically, Vanity Fair doesn’t scrimp on details.

We had arrived at the point in the party when everybody was tipsy and dancing, but sadly the bar had run out of white wine it being a hot summer day…  champagne was still available and everybody seemed to be having a good time.

Spy Rachel Zoe with her husband across the dance floor and polo player/model Nacho Figueras with his wife Delfina Blacquier by the auction paintings.  Daphne Guinness posing in a silvery Lady Gaga Medieval headdress. Also present; Stefano Tonchi – newly upgraded to editor of W magazine, Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa, Vogue‘s Meredith Melling Burke, Kelly Klein, Katie Lee, actress Melissa George, and many more …

Dance to a few songs and before you know it the party is winding down…

Photos courtesy of Patrick McMullan and montage courtesy of The Daily Truffle…

Daphne Guinness

Serena Merriman and Nina Freudenberger (in Yigal Azrouël)

Nina Freudenberger is a natural, makeup-free, leggy Teutonic blonde with sprite-like energy. As a graduate of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and a former senior designer at Kondylis Design, Nina is celebrating the one year anniversary of her Nolita-based retail store, Haus interior.  Items inspired by her Bavarian Black Forest roots range from mounted antlers, an old gas lamp, random books, framed photos of horses, and a stuffed pheasant with a tail so green and long you have to stop yourself from touching it. Nina’s store is an extension of her design firm, also named Haus Interior, founded in 2007. The retail store also acts as a meeting place between her and clients to go over wallpaper swatches, magazines, design books or the items in the stores for interior decorating ideas.

Tonight all of Nina’s friends are scattered through out her flagship (look for them in Boston in 2011) store. Like Nina, her friends are creative minds… take former LA native Sean MacPherson, there with girlfriend Guest of a Guest editor Rachelle Hruska, who started Swingers, Jones and Bar Lubitch – and even owned Bar Marmont at one time – but has since moved to NYC and is now the brains behind the Waverly Inn, The Bowery Hotel and The Jane Hotel.  Other objects d’amies include Paper Magazine’s Peter Davis and Luigi Tadini (also co-chair of Riverkeeper with friend Amanda Hearst), Annie Churchill, publicist Bettina Prentice, creative consultant Kate Schelter, decorator-designer Reed Woodson, stylist Bonnie Morrison, GQ style correspondent Brett Falghren, Ralph Lauren designer Titina von Waldow, Vogue’s Valerie Boster, Art Production Fund’s Casey Fremont, fashion designer Timo Weiland and finally Serena Merriman who is in charge of PR for the evening.

Lemongrass sparkle cocktails were served (a mix of Double Cross vodka, pear juice, lemon grass, simple syrup and a touch of champagne) and mini cupcakes in banana split, red velvet (my fave), maple bacon and strawberries & cream.

Shop Online!

http://www.hausinterior.com/

Read Nina’s design blog!

http://thecultivatedhome.com/

all photo credits: Patrick McMullan (**Thanks Patrick – Love from L.A.!!)

Jamie Prentice, Will Heath and Luigi Tadini

Casey Fremont, Bettina Prentice, Titina von Waldow

Annie Churchill, Nina Freudenberger, Kate-Schelter

This past Saturday my friend, attorney Misty Allen, told me she had an invite to a fun store party in East Hampton.  Calypso St. Barth was co-hosting a shopping event with What2WearWhere.com and the Riverkeeper Jr Council for the East End Generation Green Committee to benefit the Group for the East End, Peconic Baykeeper and Riverkeeper.  These three environmental groups seek to protect and preserve the integrity of our natural environment. Riverkeeper in particular has gotten a lot of PR because its a favorite cause of the Kennedys.

DJ Flo was spinning and there were lots of cute clothes to be tempted by.  In attendance were designer Annie Churchill Albert, Amanda Hearst (founding member Riverkeeper and Group for the East End co-chair), publicist R. Couri Hay, and Ari Meisel (founding member East End Generation Green Committee).

What2WearWhere.com is a cool new website founded by Karen Klopp dedicated to helping today’s busy working women make decisions about what 2 wear to different occasions (where).  The site cleverly breaks clothing into different categories: life’s event, workplace, sports & adventure, travel, and packing.  I met Karen at the event and she is  a dynamic, positive individual.  A life long conservationist she also served on the Board of Directors of Riverkeeper.

FYI, for the month of June, What2WearWhere.com will donate 50% of it’s online sales to these causes so be sure to check out the website!

Annie Churchill Albert, Karen Klopp, Meredith Dunn, Georgiana Bland, Lara Glaister, and Amanda Hearst

DJ Flo

guests