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June 27, 2008 12:41 pm
Blame it on the recession or a general lack of wanting to get dressed up in this heat, but it seems the big birthday blowout is passé. At least such was the general consensus on Thursday, when both Fabiola Beracasa and Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez celebrated their birthdays with low-key affairs. Beracasa and a gaggle of girls—including Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Tallulah Harlech, Genevieve Jones, Diana Hsu, and Arden Wohl (a few boys tagged along, too, such as Beracasa’s boyfriend, Jason Beckman, and the photographer Douglas Friedman)—hightailed it to Six Flags Great Adventure. “At first I didn’t want to celebrate my birthday this year,” Beracasa said. “But this is probably the best birthday party yet. [The ride] El Toro even beats that circus party I had two years ago.” Not suprisingly, this crowd related the rides to fashion shows: Apparently, if you can’t sit in the front row of a roller coaster, it’s all right to sit in the second or third—but no further back than that. Later that evening, at the home of gallerist Amy Greenspon, Lazaro Hernandez celebrated his birthday with a wig dress code. Or so assumed one reveler, who brought a trunk of hair accessories for the likes of Jack McCollough, Melissa Bent, Jen Brill, Hamish Bowles, and Benjamin Cho. By the end of the night, however—polyester having a certain itch quality—most of the artificial hair ended up on the early 20th-century busts that line Greenspon’s modern art-filled Upper West Side pad.
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