Fact: Vanessa Bruno and Linlee Allen know how to throw a party. Ce soir, Lindsey Lerman and I went to Vanessa Bruno’s Melrose store opening celebration.  While I was a little bummed to not gawk at Vanessa’s two lines, strewn around the store in a modern but Parisian and feminine way, I forgave VB et crew because there were GIRLS IN SWINGS… and a super cool neon-ish art installation by French artist Cyprien Chabret !  Yes, VB’s opening event is COOLER than yours will ever be… 

The rain is a fan of Mlle. Bruno’s ahhhmazing designs, and therefor halted any unfavorable weather…Mr. Rain also allowed for good weather because he wanted to see what stops the fashionable ensemble would pull.

I am in love with the Spring Summer 2011 collection (gold star for the makeup used on the models), but I must admit I have not even had time to embrace VB Fall 2010.  (If you have any interest to see which items I need/want from Fall 2010, click here)

Lindsey et moi

The installation’s colors matched a lot of the merch on display…V CLEVER VB, we are onto you!

Danish/ Parisian Bruno is tall, stunning, and tres au naturel.  When introduced to Mademoiselle Bruno, my eyes widened, like a deer in headlights.

The deets:

Les belles personnes include: Lindsey Lerman et moi, Elodie Bouchez with husband THOMAS BANGALTER aka half of Daft Punk,  Minnie Driver, Graham Finke, Arianne Phillips, Charlie Eisner, Lisa Eisner, Ness Saban, Jasmine Shokrian, Magda Berliner, George Kotsiopolous, Jessica Joffee, Marie-Christine Dermond, Johnny Makeup, Maxime Jaquart, Cameron Silver, Carlos Lopez, Rosario Dawson, Katie Danza, Kelly Lynch with husband Mitch Glazer, Leslie Mann, Rain Phillips, Atlanta de Cadenet, Taryn Manning, Tracee Elliss-Ross, Sahnae Grimes, Jessica Paster, Ashley Avignonne, Nate Newall, Kate Mulling, Irene Neuwirth (Harvard Westlake), and Erin Wasson, who I love and adore and just HAD to show her that I was wearing one of her Low Luv rings.

♥ The swanky crowd nibbled on passed hors d’oeuvres as they gossiped over champagne

♥ Musique provided by the tres mignonne Binki Shapiro of Little Joy and Charlie Eisner

Pictures from Wireimage and my Blackberry

Emmy Rossum at Haunted Hayride

LA’s Halloween Thrillseekers Have Sunday-FunNight at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Haunted Hayride.

Last night was the VIP and Premiere Night of the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. This year the event is in a new location of Griffith Park’s Old Zoo, which is a favorite haunt spot of supernatural enthusiasts. We saw a lot of friends, celebs and smelled the fresh air and cool breeze of a fall night in Griffith Park. Guests began showing up at 7:00pm to enjoy a 20-minute hayride through some of the most terrifying scenes we have EVER seen. The location also is home to a 5,000 square foot haunted maze made completely of hay, as well as a traditional carnival area (with lots of food, games and the kind of rides we loved as kids but fear as adults). Celebs and VIP guests were treated to front of line passes for this special night only, such a treat! Oh, did we mention there were at least 75 actors dressed up as the scariest demons, clowns, monsters and headless beauty queens imaginable!?

So what exactly went on Sunday night in Griffith Park’s allegedly haunted Old Zoo? Well, it seemed as though most of LA’s Young Hollywood came out for a night of scares and laughs at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. Emmy Rossum showed up to the black carpet early with some friends to be one of the first to take a 20-minute hayride through dozens of horrifying scenes. After doing the terrifying hayride, Stephanie Pratt sat the next horror out… a 5,000 square foot haunted maze made of all hay! Pals Chord Overstreet of Glee, Josie Loren of Make It or Break It and James Preston of The Gates walked the carpet together before heading down to the hayride. Our favorite Modern Family cast member, Sarah Hyland, looked cute as a button while enjoying a fall night out with friends. And Dancing With The Stars young’n Kyle Massey was full of laughs throughout the ‘Carnival of Souls’ with friend (and real life brother), Chris Massey of Zoey 101. Dozens more of our favorite actors and actresses showed up, and everyone was full of smiles. Halloween is here… and we couldn’t be more excited!

What we ate: Canter’s Deli food truck, Hoffy’s Hot Dogs food truck, Maggiano’s italian food, Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt, hot apple cider and more!

Who we saw: Emmy Rossum, Sarah Hyland, Stephanie Pratt, Melissa Carbone (Ten Thirty One Productions and Executive Director of LAHH), James Preston, stylist Johnny Wujek, Kyle Massey (Dancing With The Stars), Brett Ruttenberg, Riawna Capri (Nine Zero One salon), Jonathan Bennett, Camille Guaty, publicist Melissa Berger, Caroline D’Amore, stylist Jessica Paster, Ben Brosseau, Alice Greczyn, manager Brianne Castillo-Huang, Chord Overstreet, Bridget Marquardt, Natasha Alam, publicist Nicole Perna, Jean Kwolek, Melora Hardin, Dick Horgan, Tanner Beard, Anya Monzikova, Josie Loren, Ryan Rottman, Rob Mayes, Anthony Fitzgerald, Chris Massey (Zoey 101), Joel Michaely, Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville), Nikita Ramsey, Reid Ewing, SBE’s Derek Besenfender, Zack Silva, publicist Whitney Peterson, Sara Murray (Michelle Marie PR), Scout Taylor-Compton, Sophia Rossi, director/choreographer Adam Shankman, Ashley Fink and Dior’s Stacey Kubasak.

So, the story of the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride comes from a history of fact and legend claiming that shortly after the Old Zoo opened in the early 1900′s, the animals starting acting strange, and people on the property started acting stranger. A string of unexplained instances and bad luck started rumors of the Old Zoo being build on unholy ground which resulted in a mass gathering of the community to “drive out the evil.” That night became the tragic end to those villagers when a fire erupted in the Old Zoo. The animals were relocated. Those who perished that night remain on the grounds still trying to battle the evil, yet it is they who will not leave. The zookeeper and his family are often seen keeping vigil of the property and animals, however, there have been no animals present for 100 years. Hundreds of reports claiming the strong presence of unrest has made The Old Zoo a site of high interest by haunt experts and supernatural enthusiasts.

Another fun fact we learned tonight was that the event supported the popular foundation Save Japan Dolphins (www.savejapandolphins.org), the organization supported in the movie, THE COVE. As it turns out, the event’s Executive Director, Melissa Carbone, was one of the five delegates who presented to the US Embassy in Japan to end the dolphin slaughters at The Cove. We love hearing this stuff!

The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride goes on every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday up through Halloween. Tickets can be purchased on location or online at www.losangeleshauntedhayride.com. Ticket prices range from $25-$60, depending on when you go and what level of access/lines you purchase. Discount coupons can be obtained at any Gelson’s Supermarket or Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt location. Purchases support the LA Parks Foundation.

More information on the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride can be found at www.losangeleshauntedhayride.com or on Twitter at @losangeleshaunt.

Thanks to the sponsors for the night: Gelson’s Supermarket, Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt, Hoffy’s and LA Parks Foundation.

Caroline Taylor Love on the black carpet - pic from Caroline

Monster on Haunted Hayride - pic from TPA Magazine

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!

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!

invite to the partyyy

Penélope Cruz in new calvin klein collectionat the party

Milla Jovovich in new calvin klein collection at the party

ginnifer goodwin in new calvin klein collection at the party

Ali Larter in new calvin klein collection at the party

abbie cornish in new calvin klein collection at the party

Kate Bosworth in new calvin klein collection at the party

molly sims in new calvin klein collection at the party

Lauren and Caroline at the CK event

Photos from Daily Truffle, Mark Hunter, Style.com and Wireiamge, Collage by Moi