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Dazed & Confused and Fantastic Man Throw NYFW Fêtes
After more than a week of fashion parties, the casualties are starting to pile up. Having hosted a bash for Another Magazine the night before, Jefferson Hack didn't make it to his own Dazed & Confused dinner at Edi & the Wolf last night, a celebration of the mag's recent Club Monaco campaign. But that just meant more scrumptious Alsatian flatbread for the likes of Our Mountain's Abbey Lee Kershaw, who played a set after dinner, and Nate Lowman, who rode his bike over from the Proenza Schouler show. A few cocktails in, tales of fowl play emerged from the Dazed team's London shoot. One involved Élodie Bouchez, who was made to put a chicken in the Club Monaco bag she was modeling. "I'm not really a chicken-holding person," Bouchez told Style.com, "so that was fun."
Meanwhile, in his 54th-floor penthouse in midtown (with views that stretch clear into…what is that, Colorado?) magician and Fantastic Man profile subject David Copperfield hosted a magazine party of his own, celebrating his spread, his birthday, and a new honorific: King of Magic, so crowned by the Society of American Magicians. Owen Wilson, Roberto Cavalli, Michael Stipe, China Chow, John Currin and wife Rachel Feinstein Currin, Sean MacPherson, and Peter Brant were a few who came to take it in. The multilevel space is filled with Copperfield's collections, which range from movie memorabilia (the Best Director Oscar for Casablanca) to artists' mannequins (including the one Cézanne used) to turn-of-the-century arcade games housed in their own fin de siècle amusement room.
The view into his sanctuary (well, his New York one, at least) was a rare treat. Copperfield now spends most of his time in Vegas, where he's currently performing and where his FM shoot was shot, and rarely entertains at home in the Big Apple. Why? Well, security was reportedly dispatched to take care of a few revelers dancing in a bathtub and Champagne flutes were set down on whatever was close at hand. "I think of Eddie Murphy in Trading Places," Copperfield said of the scene. "'None of you have heard of coasters?'"
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