Paradis Found
The French Singer and Actress Makes a Rare Stateside Appearance for Chanel
Let's be honest: If you had two gorgeous kids at home and Johnny Depp for a live-in lover, it'd be hard to get you to schlep from your villa in France to a fête on New York's Upper East Side for a lipstick, wouldn't it? "I typically prefer to have dinner at home with my family," Vanessa Paradis told us last night at a party Chanel threw at the restaurant in the recently refurbished Mark Hotel. The French chanteuse is the new face of the brand's Rouge Coco Crème Lip Colour collection, and as such, was the guest of honor. "I always get anxious at these things and someone has to really coax me out," she added. "But I'm very happy the Chanel girls did. I love the people at my table."
Paradis' lucky seatmates were Patti Smith, Heidi Mount, and Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet, but this being a fashion party, there was plenty of table-hopping. Daphne Guinness asked Olivier Zahm about all the naked ladies on his Web site, and the downtown icon Sophia Lamar, who came as Leigh Lezark's date, told Terry Richardson that he was her idol. Kate Bosworth, her hair in a tight bun and her flouncy Chanel dress wafting around her, said, "I feel like a ballerina tonight. It's starting to snow, and I have this sudden urge to go outside and do some pirouettes. If it's really going tomorrow, I'm putting this dress back on and prancing around Central Park." The city is blanketed in the white stuff, Miss Bosworth. We're waiting.
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