5 posts tagged "Liev Schreiber"
Mega Watts
Photographer Ben Watts (pictured, left) knows how to throw a party—and last night was no exception. Despite the threat of thunderstorms, a line of guests snaked around the block from Milk Gallery for his latest project, the Ben Watts’ Mix Tape exhibit co-hosted by HTC and MADE Fashion Week. The exhibition, which features Watts’ signature sun-drenched shots of Montauk surfers and beach-bound models, drew a packed audience including sister Naomi Watts (pictured), Liev Schreiber, Alessandra Ambrosio (pictured, below), DJ Chelsea Leyland, and Emilie de Ravin. “Today it’s all about instant gratification,” said Watts, who created the techno-hued collages using his phone and his new “WattsUpPhoto” app, which launched last week. “I used to use Polaroids, but we’re living in a digital world—I like to share what I do with as many people as possible.” When partygoers started snapping their own pics of the work, Watts quipped, “When I see people using their phones creatively, it makes me smile.”
Among the crowd favorites? Surfboards flaunting life-size shots of barely-clad beauties including Behati Prinsloo, Chanel Iman, and Dree Hemingway (pictured, below)—the latter of whom revealed her personal mantra for fashion week. “The less serious you are about it, the better,” she demurred. “Fashion is all about having fun.” To that end, around 10 p.m., Hemingway and her boyfriend, The Fat Radish’s Phil Winser, decamped to the Standard Hotel for the celebratory dinner, where André Balazs, Sean Avery, Andy Cohen, Constance Jablonski, and Waris Ahluwalia fêted the photographer.
As for Watts’ sister Naomi, who has been filming in London and flew in for the occasion, runway shows were far from her mind. “I had no idea it was fashion week,” admitted the Diana star to Style.com. Has playing the style-savvy Princess of Wales crept into the Aussie actress’ personal wardrobe? “The double-breasted, shoulder-padded suit has been featuring heavily in my life, but it’s really not my thing. I don’t think I’ll be bringing that one back.”
Rusch Hour: Toasting Montauk’s New “Summer Camp”
With its fishing village roots, robust surf scene, and long association with art world figures like Andy Warhol, Montauk has always been the cooler alternative to the Hamptons—and while some may grumble that the place is becoming too popular, it still stands safely apart from its over-gentrified neighbors along Route 27. One of the attractions of Ruschmeyer’s, a newly renovated “summer camp” from Ben Pundole, formerly of the Mondrian Hotel Group, and Rob McKinley, who opened the nearby Surf Lodge a few summers ago, is that it fits right in with the area’s laid-back mood. It features a rustic lakefront setting, a ring of casual but stylishly appointed guest cabins, and a restaurant where Pundole and McKinley have partnered with the team behind lower Manhattan’s Fat Radish to put a focus on fish and other locally sourced ingredients (don’t miss the clam pizza if it’s on the list of nightly specials). The property also houses a nautically themed late-night hangout, the Electric Eel (below), which could put a serious crimp in your early-morning surfing plans. For those who insist on exercise, there are yoga sessions, a rack of handsome bikes, and, more essentially, a massage room, among other options. Ruschmeyer’s opened over Memorial Day weekend with a friends-and-family gathering that included a Saturday night dinner attended by Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Rogan Gregory, Pamela Love, Magnus Berger, and Tenzin Wild. After the meal, Waris Ahluwalia stepped outside to take a call with his newest collaborators, the alternative hip-hop group The Cool Kids. For an upcoming movie role, the jeweler and actor is adding the title of rapper to his résumé.
For reservations and more info, see www.visitruschmeyers.com or call (631) 668-2885.
Welcome To New York—Make That Brooklyn—Fashion Week
Though The National have a strong fashion following, they’ve always been a little too introspective to qualify as a “fashiony” band. So it was something of a surprise to find out they’d be headlining last night’s kickoff party for the Fall ’11 season at MAC & Milk. It’s always tempting to credit an opening event with setting the tone for the fashion week ahead; in this case, as National lead singer Matt Berninger (left) keened into the DeLeón tequila-tippling crowd, the temptation was to imagine a week of poetic agitation and body shots. (Which would be interesting, and kind of like college.) Or perhaps the event was auguring a fashion week more intimate than usual, and more full of feeling? At any rate, the atypical band brought out a few atypical A-listers, among them Liev Schreiber and Josh Lucas, and a crowd a bit more representative of rumpled Brooklyn chic than one usually finds in a fashion scene. Maybe “Brooklyn-ness” is the key to this fashion week: After all, MAC & Milk organizer Jenne Lombardo, who booked the National at 11:30 a.m. the previous morning, has also seen fit to replace the much-loved taco lounge of two seasons ago with a hangout space catered by Bushwick pizza place Roberta’s. “They’re doing their cool gangsta build out,” Lombardo said of the Roberta’s guys, who are legendary Brooklyn D.I.Y.ers. Fair warning, noshers, there won’t be endless snacks as there were in the (taco) salad days of yore, but a lucky few will be able to snag some chow. And maybe before the week is out, we’ll all be killing time between shows planting a vegetable garden on the Milk Studios rooftop. Then again, maybe not.
Ruffian Encore, Scarlett To The Stage, And More…
Ruffian is loving the high-low life. Designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais, whose Mise en Scene line is in stores now at Anthropologie, are scheduled to design a men’s line for Macy’s. Called Threads & Heirs, the line will launch in March, with prices ranging from $24 to $99. [WWD]
Scarlett Johansson joins the exodus of Hollywood types to Broadway. She and Liev Schreiber will star in Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge in January, with Johansson putting her doe eyes to use as a 17-year-old. Somewhere deep inside, Naomi Watts is nervous. [Broadway Buzz]
Is Thierry Mugler coming back? Reports from Volvo Fashion Week in Russia suggest that Rosemary Rodriguez will soon show a womenswear collection for the brand. Fingers crossed for PVC in Spring 2011. [Fashion Week Daily]
Meet Desiree Rogers, Social Czarina
Washingtoniennes, take note: The White House’s new social secretary has a Harvard MBA, wears Valentino, and is in total control of your recreational destiny.
President Bush should be happy the shoes lobbed at him by an Iraqi journalist were flats. Louboutins would have definitely left a mark.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would prefer if you didn’t sling her over your shoulder. She doesn’t have any clothes on, and it’s uncomfortable.
Naomi and Liev go for seconds on babies. The unmarrieds welcomed another boy this weekend and, as of yet, have not named him after a borough.