D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A “DE SIGNONLEX” WA S HELD BET WEEN 65TH AND 75TH STREETS ON LEXINGTON AVENUE
Kate Gubelmann, Jamie Creel and Phoebe Gublemann
Karen Ackman, Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick, Marisa Berenson, Emily and Len Blavatnik, Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, Emma Bloomberg, Matthew Bronfman, Jamie Drake, Andrew Farkas, Fe Fendi, Adam and Olivia Flatto, Agnes Gund, Janine and J. Tomilson Hill, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Linda Lavin, Almudena and Pablo Legorreta, Elihu and Susan Rose, Daisy Soros, Ed Galligher, Ruth Wilson, Lynn Wyatt, Heidi McWilliams, Noreen Buckfire, and Guy Robinson and Elizabeth Stribling. On a Wednesday, I went down to Michael’s (of course) 46 QUEST
Susanna Salk and Christina Juaraz
The scene at Mecox Gardens
to take it all in. Michael McCarty, himself, was there, meeting and greeting. He was in from Los Angeles for the week. (The original Michael’s, which opened in 1979, is located in Santa Monica.) Michael was telling me that the Santa Monica restaurant had been closed for three weeks while they renovated the menu, noting the changing times and changing food choices. For those of you in the “neighb” or planning to be in it, the new menu can be viewed at michaelssantamonica.com. Michael’s New York was busy but without that clatter-chatter buzz that we’re used to. In the front room,
there was Matt Rich with Ava Roosevelt and Jean Shafiroff. And Susan Magrino was there with her sisters, Sarah Magrino and Allyn Magrino (who is her business partner), to celebrating Sarah’s birthday. Then, I saw Mickey Ateyeh with Barbara Cutler, lawyer and child advocate; Bisila Bokoko; Rick Kaplan with Kelly McGinnis; Cindy Lewis; Cathie Black; Lewis Korman; Chris Shipman; Eva Mohr; Keith Reinhard with Maureen Reide and Soledad O’Brian; Diane Clehane with Stefano Tonchi, editor-in-chief of W magazine; Robert Kramer; Michael Del Giudice of Millennium Credit Markets; Dylan Howard with
Christopher Gow and Ariel de Ravenel
Barbara and Kevin McLaughlin
Diane Dimond; Brendan Cahill; and Shaun Woodward. I was lunching with Blair Sabol, who was in town on her semi-annual visit from Arizona (or ‘Zona as she calls it), and Gigi and Harry Benson. Blair and Harry had worked together in the 1970s, when they were both on assignment for Vogue. Harry was shooting a number of female stars and Blair was interviewing them. This was during the years of Grace Mirabella, and Blair recalled how you rarely saw stories of Hollywood stars (or characters) in the magazine the way you do today. It was more or less disregarded, fashion-wise. That said, Harry
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Larry and Dana Creel with Charles Russell