Petra Nemcova, at Super Saturday in Water Mill. see all photos > Rolf Snoeren and Viktor Horsting, at the Watermill Center summer benefit. see all photos > Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld, at the Baby Buggy Infant Gear Fund benefit in Amagansett. see all photos > Forest and Keisha Whitaker, at the Arts for Life
benefit in East Hampton. see all photos > "The girls have come out with their shopping 'A' games today," declared Kelly Ripa, co-host of the Super Saturday designer garage sale in the Hamptons hamlet of Water Mill. "They've mapped out their routes with unbelievable precision." Military-style campaigns by the likes of Petra Nemcova, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, and Charlotte Ronson resulted in the Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren stalls being cleared out early on in the afternoon. (Sales benefit
the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.) Co-host Donna Karan, meanwhile, hung out in the kids' tents with her grandchildren. "I haven't even been to my own stall yet because I've been having so much fun here," said Karan. "But I can guarantee you that I'll do some damage with the credit cards later."
After a long, hot day of frenzied shopping, socials such as Fabiola Beracasa and Tinsley Mortimer joined Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Hope Atherton, and other art world luminaries for the Watermill Center's summer benefit. "This is surreal!" said David Yurman as he surveyed the pavilion, where guests sipped cocktails served by waiters wearing teacup hats while performance artists romped around them and into the torch-lit woods nearby. "You'd never guess that all this was going on from the road."
But that was just the cocktail hour of the arts center's "wild chic" benefit. As dinner began, attendees were treated to the sight of Dita Von Teese suspended on a high swing at the center of the tent. Perhaps as an incentive to get the gawkers to sit down and be silent, the host promised that one guest would win a kiss from Von Teese in the live auction. "I usually give them away for free, so I wonder how much a single one might be worth," mulled Von Teese. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The smooch fetched $100,000. (It also came with a Robert Wilson plasma portrait of the burlesque diva.)
"Welcome to the No. 1 celebrity party pad in the U.S, according to OK! magazine," announced Jerry Seinfeld, in nearby Amagansett, as he welcomed guests to his oceanfront manse on 12 acres. The occasion: a summer dinner sponsored by Ferragamo in support of Baby Buggy's Infant Gear Fund, the nonprofit organization founded by his wife, Jessica, in 2001. "This is how we always live out here. This is a very typical dinner for us," Seinfeld joked. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, the busy Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Ellen Barkin, Bryan Lourd, James and his sister Vivia Ferragamo, and Ali Wentworth joined over a hundred well-heeled guests, many of whom were expecting babies themselves, for a meal of tomato and mozzarella salad and branzino. They dined under a tent decorated with illustrations from Ferragamo's new children's book, Fiera, the proceeds of which will be donated to Baby Buggy.
Later, everyone was encouraged to retire to a renovated "party barn" from the eighteenth century to dance the night away. Tunes came courtesy of Paul Sevigny. Though she was wearing Ferragamo, Jessica Seinfeld sported an unexpectedly frugal accessory: bracelets from Parker's new fashion collection, Bitten. "It's changed my life," she enthused of the low-priced line. "I live in it. I've told her to make stuff for men and kids." As for concerns that Parker and Broderick might be upset that their nearby estate was only OK! magazine's No. 9 celebrity party pad? "There's no tension," Jerry Seinfeld said.
Despite the fact that his East Hampton estate didn't make the celebrity rag's top ten, Russell Simmons was still able to draw a fashionable set to his house for his eighth annual Art for Life benefit. A trio of actors—Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Ally Sheedy, and Nia Long—were all on hand, helping to net nearly two million dollars for the charity. And finally, across town, Andrew Saffir pulled his own weight among Hollywood thespians when his Cinema Society joined The Wall Street Journal in co-sponsoring a screening of the Anne Hathaway vehicle Becoming Jane. Following the film, Heather Graham, Howard Stern, and Julia Stiles helped round out the Tinseltown contingent at a poolside party at the home of Jerry Della Femina.
the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.) Co-host Donna Karan, meanwhile, hung out in the kids' tents with her grandchildren. "I haven't even been to my own stall yet because I've been having so much fun here," said Karan. "But I can guarantee you that I'll do some damage with the credit cards later."After a long, hot day of frenzied shopping, socials such as Fabiola Beracasa and Tinsley Mortimer joined Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Hope Atherton, and other art world luminaries for the Watermill Center's summer benefit. "This is surreal!" said David Yurman as he surveyed the pavilion, where guests sipped cocktails served by waiters wearing teacup hats while performance artists romped around them and into the torch-lit woods nearby. "You'd never guess that all this was going on from the road."
But that was just the cocktail hour of the arts center's "wild chic" benefit. As dinner began, attendees were treated to the sight of Dita Von Teese suspended on a high swing at the center of the tent. Perhaps as an incentive to get the gawkers to sit down and be silent, the host promised that one guest would win a kiss from Von Teese in the live auction. "I usually give them away for free, so I wonder how much a single one might be worth," mulled Von Teese. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The smooch fetched $100,000. (It also came with a Robert Wilson plasma portrait of the burlesque diva.)
"Welcome to the No. 1 celebrity party pad in the U.S, according to OK! magazine," announced Jerry Seinfeld, in nearby Amagansett, as he welcomed guests to his oceanfront manse on 12 acres. The occasion: a summer dinner sponsored by Ferragamo in support of Baby Buggy's Infant Gear Fund, the nonprofit organization founded by his wife, Jessica, in 2001. "This is how we always live out here. This is a very typical dinner for us," Seinfeld joked. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, the busy Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Ellen Barkin, Bryan Lourd, James and his sister Vivia Ferragamo, and Ali Wentworth joined over a hundred well-heeled guests, many of whom were expecting babies themselves, for a meal of tomato and mozzarella salad and branzino. They dined under a tent decorated with illustrations from Ferragamo's new children's book, Fiera, the proceeds of which will be donated to Baby Buggy.
Later, everyone was encouraged to retire to a renovated "party barn" from the eighteenth century to dance the night away. Tunes came courtesy of Paul Sevigny. Though she was wearing Ferragamo, Jessica Seinfeld sported an unexpectedly frugal accessory: bracelets from Parker's new fashion collection, Bitten. "It's changed my life," she enthused of the low-priced line. "I live in it. I've told her to make stuff for men and kids." As for concerns that Parker and Broderick might be upset that their nearby estate was only OK! magazine's No. 9 celebrity party pad? "There's no tension," Jerry Seinfeld said.
Despite the fact that his East Hampton estate didn't make the celebrity rag's top ten, Russell Simmons was still able to draw a fashionable set to his house for his eighth annual Art for Life benefit. A trio of actors—Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Ally Sheedy, and Nia Long—were all on hand, helping to net nearly two million dollars for the charity. And finally, across town, Andrew Saffir pulled his own weight among Hollywood thespians when his Cinema Society joined The Wall Street Journal in co-sponsoring a screening of the Anne Hathaway vehicle Becoming Jane. Following the film, Heather Graham, Howard Stern, and Julia Stiles helped round out the Tinseltown contingent at a poolside party at the home of Jerry Della Femina.
