"I can't get enough of New York," said James Ferragamo, fresh in from Florence, Italy, for a lunch in his honor at Sant Ambroeus downtown. Plum Sykes took a break from writing her second novel to host the Wednesday afternoon affair, while Allison Sarofim, Rachel Roy, Amy Sacco, and Tory Burch were among the stylish guests celebrating Ferragamo and his family label's spring accessories collection. And celebrate they did, swapping the handbags dangling on the back of each chair and ordering customized shoes with as much abandon as kids in a candy store. Amid all the hullabaloo, Vicky Ward dished about her recent Vanity Fair profile of Kate Moss, British author Rita Konig raved about relocating to New York, and Lucy Sykes Rellie and her sister Alice Sykes showed off looks from the former's recently launched womenswear collection. As the ladies said their goodbyes, talk turned to upcoming getaways—a subject prompted perhaps by Ferragamo's accessories, inspired by Turkey's Bosporus strait.

The previous evening at Soho House, a different but equally sleek batch of socials, including Annelise Peterson, Alexis Bryan, and Holly Dunlap, gathered for the Grand Classics showing of the 1940 film Waterloo Bridge. Hostess Carolina Herrera could only spare enough time to introduce the first screening (she had a good excuse—dashing to a dinner with the king and queen of Spain), so Vogue's Sally Singer and PR exec Lauren Davis picked up the slack for the rest of the night. "This movie was playing nonstop in the background as inspiration for Mrs. Herrera's spring show," said Davis, pointing out that a polka-dot dress that sashayed down the spring runway bore a striking resemblance to one in the film. Clearly concerned about the audience's attention span, she added, "Everyone knows this is in black-and-white, right?"

—Laird Borrelli (Ferragamo) and Sarah Cristobal (Grand Classics)