China Fun
New York's Social Set Dresses Up For the Frick's Bal de Chinoiserie
All this talk of the new China—last night, The Frick Collection's Young Fellows Ball had some fun with the old one. Dubbed the Bal de Chinoiserie, this year's gala tapped into colorful traditions of the Far East, with cherry blossoms spilling out of urns and silkscreened banners adorned with birds and lotus blossoms hanging at opposite ends of the museum's stately palm court. "It looks like a Bond movie," Olivia Chantecaille opined, then imagined how things would play out: "The bad guy would end up in the fountain face-down, and Bond would run out with a beautiful woman."
More than a few tuxedoed gents could have made a credible go of the 007 role. (The happy-go-lucky guest in the tasseled Mandarin cap was not one of them.) Allison Aston, Lydia Fenet, and their fellow hosts, meanwhile, were among the many female revelers circulating in Rachel Roy, who co-sponsored—along with Baccarat and Judith Leiber—and took a couple laps around the room herself.
Later on, the dim-sum station was cleared from the music room to make extra space for dancing. Jewelry designer Lisa Salzer grabbed her friend Nina Freudenberger and headed downtown for a nightcap at the Mondrian Soho hotel's opening party, even though she'd borrowed an Akris dress that she didn't want to destroy in the rain. But she had an umbrella and said she wasn't worried. "I'm adamant about having my driver pull up all the way."
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