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January 27, 2009 1:26 pm
John Hardy is a truly international organization: The creative department is in Bali, the financial in Hong Kong, and the marketing and PR in New York City. So what were they doing in Paris on the eve of the haute couture? “This is the best place for cocktails,” announced Hardy creative director Guy Bedarida (pictured here with couture client Becca Cason Thrash). “Which we take just as seriously.” He wasn’t kidding. His friend Marie Moatti provided her digs—a swanky original fifties Art Deco Seine-side pad with a spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower—to the jewelry company to kick off this fashion week and present Bedarida’s couture collection. At the end of the night, the bijoux were headed to their own suite at the Hotel Georges V to be perused by buyers—that is assuming, of course, the diamonds made it out of there. Between one fashion publicist openly offering swapsies of her own house’s luxury goods for a cocktail ring or two and Rebecca Carcelle, wife of LVMH’s Yves Carcelle, who had earrings in hand ready to pick up her next bout of bling, it looked like the jewelry was already moving.
tags: Becca Cason Thrash, Couture Spring 2009, Guy Bedarida, John Hardy, Marie Moatti
