The Missing Persons Report
(NEW YORK) The Daily is extremely concerned about the whereabouts of several leading figures in the fashion industry. Last night Oscar De La Renta, Graydon Carter, Ralph Lauren, Anna Wintour, Calvin Klein, and many more were "scheduled" to attend various parties in Soho--but shockingly, they never arrived. The Daily dug deep.
Design Within Reach's Soho flagship hosted the Can It!!! event, which auctioned off designer and artist-designed trash bins to benefit Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA). With participating designers Lauren, Klein, and de la Renta on the tipsheet, the event was guaranteed serious fashion power--alas, Ralph, Calvin and Oscar went missing. Yoko Ono, another bin designer, was also promised, although the artist and musician is currently touring in the UK. Perhaps the Gulfstream wasn't available? Luckily, Veronica Webb and Nigel Barker held down the fort, with the assistance of the incomparable Lady Bunny and DIFFA chairman David Rockwell.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away, director Alexander Olch hosted a screening of his HBO film The Windmill at friend Hunter Gray's apartment. Anna, Graydon, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alex Wang, Jack McCollough, Lazaro Hernandez, Julie Gilhart, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Thom Browne, Andre Leon Talley, Peter Saarsgard, Mark Ronson, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Tara Subkoff, Elizabeth Peyton, Erin Wasson, Julian Schnabel, Charlotte Ronson, and Leelee Sobieski were just a few of the bold names "expected" at the fête, leading party-goers to wonder pre-bash just how big the apartment in question was. Luckily (for the apartment) and quite mysteriously, none of the above managed to make it. The Rodarte designers, The Daily discovered, are currently at home on the West Coast--but the remainder of the promised are still very much unaccounted for. Actor Bob Balaban made the party, as did Bonnie Morrison and Erin Fetherston.
What sort of cruel fate could have befallen all of those fashion icons at once? Did Steven Kolb call a last-minute CFDA summit? (Oh, no, he was at Waris' thing.) Or are Dunst and Gyllenhaal just really big baseball fans? If you know anything--anything at all--about their whereabouts, you know who to tip (Dailyfrontrow@gmail.com). Until then, we will remain eternally in awe of the creative art of the tipsheet.
