Art to Art
Galas Downtown and Up for Dia and the Met
Dia's on the move. Having acquired a space on 22nd Street this year, the upstate art foundation is planning a return to its Chelsea roots, and at its fall gala at Tribeca Three Sixty last night, it seemed as though everyone in art and fashion (from Julian Schnabel to erstwhile designer Helmut Lang) wanted to be there for a sort of preliminary Welcome Back.
Parker Posey attended (without her boyfriend, the painter Scott Lenhardt) as a guest of Ingrid Sischy and Sandy Brant. "I know them from a long time ago, way back," she said. "Ingrid was a big supporter of mine when I was the It girl. Now, I'm not an It girl anymore. I'm a woman!"
Of course, it helped the glamour quotient that Armani was sponsoring and that W was hosting the after-party. Karolina Kurkova came from shooting the December cover of French Elle—"very colorful, very boyish," she revealed. The model recognized the dress Giovanna Battaglia was wearing—hard to miss, printed as it was with a striking portrait of Mr. Armani himself—as one she'd worn recently in a short film for the brand directed by Anna Dello Russo. Battaglia, for her part, had just been at the Maurizio Cattelan opening at the Guggenheim, where she'd agreed, in principle, to lend Cattelan the dress for an art work. Not everyone had gotten the image on the Armani dress, Battaglia added. "Some people think it's James Bond."
Uptown, the Apollo Circle was fêting another New York arts institution: the Met. Carolina Herrera sponsored the black-tie ball again this year, but she didn't linger to watch Selita Ebanks, Arlenis Sosa, Lauren Remington Platt, and Lily Kwong try to break it down to Kanye West and Jay-Z in her gowns. "Tonight is about the young," she told Style.com. The evening was an art lesson of sorts for the upwardly mobile twentysomethings in the crowd, with works from the Met's collection by the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns projected on a wall of the Temple of Dendur. "Andy was one of my best friends," Herrera said. "I love Pop art."
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