Rose Bar cocktail waitresses were carding more than usual at last night's launch party for The Teen Vogue Handbook, where the still-in-school future of the fashion world mixed with the likes of Thakoon Panichgul and Patrick Demarchelier. Like many of the other guests, those two are in the book, outlining their respective paths to success and dispensing advice (Panichgul: "Read all the magazines"; Demarchelier: "Take pictures all the time").

"You go to law school, you go to medical school, but you don't really train to be in fashion," noted Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley. "It's not a linear career. We were trying to share with kids the different ways you can approach it." Via pro hockey, say? "Sean Avery's not in our book," Astley reflected. "But he's an interesting example."

Meanwhile, her daughters and a bunch of other fashion-world kids were busy making the Rose Bar their playground. Zachary Brooks, son of Amanda Brooks, took a break from rolling balls around the pool table to offer the 6-year-old's perspective: "I just like to get snacks and play games." If only the fashion world were that simple. "It's a really complicated industry, and I think it's great that they're writing a book to help people adjust to that," offered Vera Wang's daughter Josephine Becker, who was doing some adjusting of her own. The 16-year-old, the subject of a spread in the magazine's latest issue, noted of her surroundings: "I'm used to being the youngest one, so this is quite a change."

— Darrell Hartman