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In Paris, Toasting the Launch of Vogue's Turkish Edition
Welcome to the 'Bul market—Istanbul, that is. The latest territory to get its own edition of Vogue is Turkey, and the new magazine was fêted with a launch party at the Crillon in Paris last night. "Have you been to Turkey? It's sort of an undiscovered paradise, and I'm feeling very proud of my countrymen tonight," said Erdem Moralioglu, the London-based Turkish designer, who dressed Jessica Stam, the debut issue's cover girl, for the party. "I know it's not the first thing people think of, but Turkey is really chic."
That it is, judging by the crowd that overran the hotel to pay their respects to editor in chief Seda Domaniç. Designers Peter Dundas, Riccardo Tisci, Hussein Chalayan, and Gareth Pugh all came to toast the launch, as did models Maryna Linchuk, Karolina Kurkova, and Trish Goff (also in Erdem). Mert and Marcus and Ellen von Unwerth circled, too. All in all, it sounded like a compelling contributors' page for a future issue. So popular was the event, in fact, that before the end, there weren't any glasses left and all the Champagne and vodka had been drunk. "So I'll have whatever you have left," Bianca Brandolini d'Adda said. "Is whiskey Turkish?"
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