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No Gaga, but Plenty of Lookalikes at V Mag Party
Last night's V party in celebration of the magazine's latest issue was all about going straight to the top: held at the well-trafficked summit of the Standard Hotel and inspired, according to editor Stephen Gan, by the meteoric rise of Lady Gaga. "Six months ago, I saw the transition from where Gaga was—on our cover a year ago—and I thought, I've never seen anything like this," Gan said. "She's our muse, and the symbol of how things can happen so quickly." And yet stay the same: The pop star is once again a V cover girl, this time with Marc Jacobs, who swung by the fête with Ruffian's Brian Wolk and Claude Morais and pointed out that his fashion week punctuality streak is still alive. "I started my show two minutes early," he boasted.
Gan and his team had sprinkled the room with dancing models in retro workout wear and leather-clad Gaga lookalikes. But not too many of them, thankfully; there was barely room as it was for the likes of Courtney Love, Estelle, and an exuberantly dancing Kelly Osbourne. Left on her own, Elisa Sednaoui took to browsing the magazine, but Leighton Meester was too swept up by the party to do the same. She did make a pitch, though: "I think being completely natural for a photo shoot is very much a fantasy of mine, just so people can see what you really look like—every little pore and blemish." (Note to the Gossip Girl star: We will hold you to it.)
Later, the party continued over at Le Bain, where Alexander Wang was shoving friends onto the rooftop's blow-up beds and pig-piling on top of them. Ah, the high life.
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