Dalí Good
Gowns and Gilded Excess at the Apollo Circle Gala
With Surrealism the theme at this year's Apollo Circle Benefit, the mood inside the Met last night was a dreamy mix of glamour and whimsy. Bartenders serving Champagne against a backdrop of avant-garde films by Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren had painted-on Dalí moustaches, and maybe it wasn't too much of a stretch to see the light reflecting off moats and the Temple of Dendur's Egyptian columns as a nocturnal, high-society take on de Chirico.
Carolina Herrera,
who sponsored, looked very satisfied with the whole scene during her walk-through. "The museum is one of my favorite places, if not my favorite place, in New York," she said, surveying a crowd that included her daughter
Patricia Lansing,
Amanda Hearst,
Eleanor Ylvisaker,
and Vogue's
Meredith Melling Burke and
Lauren Santo Domingo.
"Tonight, with all these young girls, I love it." And their dates? "Very good-looking men, all of them," Herrera cooed. As for Dalí: "He painted my father-in-law, and I met him. It was fantastic."
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