Ste with Robert Downey, Jr., and Zach Galifianakis. To quote 10 Things I Hate About You: “I like my Skechers but I love my Prada backpack.” I liked the film but I loved bragging to everyone about seeing it early. The after-party was at LAVO NYC where guests sipped Woodbridge Brut California Sparkling Wine. Meanwhile, Avenue hosted the after-party for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Benefit Party. On the 8th, I swung by the Bunker Club where I drank Bushmills with a hipster or two or twenty. Then, I raced up to the Guggenheim International Gala where I toured “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936” and ate a macaroon or two or twenty. A couple of days later, I visited 1Oak for the WishNYC: A Toast to Wishes benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York. There, I said, “Hello” to Anna Conte and bid on a New York Rangers something with Michelle Catalano as DJ Chachi and DJ Cameron Smalls played music. On the 13th, I celebrated my twenty-fourth birthday with my parents at Porter House. I really wanted a photo with them against the Step and Repeat but, unfortch, I must’ve missed the op. The company at dinner, including Carver Diserens and Anne Moody, was almost as good as my medi-
Michelle Trachtenberg as a contestant in a children’s beauty pageant at SL. Right: Caitlin Byrnes and Lindsay Torpey-Cross on Halloween.
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um-rare steak. After a bite of cake, it was off to Dorians Red Hand where I was joined by Dionne Anderson, Steph Apstein, Life & Style’s Juliet Izon, James Kukstis, and others. Midnight, if I remember correctly, was welcomed with a cake shot. Yay! The following week, the associates committee of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center hosted its annual fall party with Gucci at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Thank goodness for my colorist, John Whelan at the Rita Hazan Salon, because I might’ve felt thoroughly out of place as a brunette. After cocktails, Blair Husain (blonde) and Claudia Overstrom (blonde) were among the 360 guests welcomed into the Pool Room by Lisa Errico (blonde). The next evening, I joined Quest’s Natalia Restrepo at Villa Pacri for a preview of Lia Sophia’s La Belle Rose II collection from Dani Stahl and Elan Kiam. There, we pulled some sparkle for Q and mingled with Erica Gianchetti of BrandLink Communications. So, now it's almost Christmastime! I'm asking Santa for some cashmere, a pile of Cranberry Bliss Bars, a pony, and an eighth Harry Potter book. u
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