Resurrection at Christie's

(NEW YORK) The crowd circulating around Christie's Thursday night wasn't your usual mix of art collectors and international patrons. Chloe Sevigny, Agyness Dean, Mark Haddawy, Katy Rodriguez and Henry Holland joined executives at the auction house in hosting a fashion week kick off celebration and preview of Christie's fall sales of post-war and contemporary art, impressionist and modern art and Resurrection: Avante Garde fashion. Thierry Mugler sponsored the event, which showcased iconoclastic British design and an appropriate crowd followed. Kelly Osbourne exchanged digits with Peaches Geldof, as Holland effused his love of collecting. "I collect Stephen Sprouse pieces when they appear on Ebay," said Holland. "Regardless of whether they are made for males or females."

Yigal Azrouël put the finishing touches on his collection, this time he is doing a show for women and a later presentation of menswear. "I'm good to go," he said. "But everything inspires me." Liz Lange saved her own vintage pieces. "I was saving it all for my daughter but now I am purging and selling everything on eBay." Mary Alice Stephenson, who attended with the owner of New York Vintage, expounded on the merits of vintage shopping. "Most of what you find at these treasure troves wont appear on anyone else," said Stephenson. "Within 24 hours of a collection, celebrities are wearing the designs, and by the time looks hit the store and I buy it, the piece has been worn a million times - and what fun is that?"
NOLA WEINSTEIN