Wintry Wonderland

(NEW YORK) Snowy days are months away, but the increasingly chillier temperatures meant that Wednesday night's Fête d'Hiver was perfectly appropriate--and even more so because of the gorgeous, icy diamonds scattered throughout the Four Seasons, courtesy of Chanel Fine Jewelry. The house, along with the Associates Committee of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, hosted the cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the hotel, with the evening benefitting the Clown Care program for the Center's Pediatric Department.

"I'm an ambassador of the brand, and I've always loved Chanel--I have since I was sixteen--because they love to give back," said a navy-sequin-clad Diane Kruger, one of the starlets also hosting the evening. "They've always taken me to the most incredible places, like amfAR, they're always underwriting things like this tonight. I just think they're a really generous company." Clearly the partygoers, who included Caroline Sieber, Nina Garcia, Eugenie Niarchos, and Charlotte Ronson, shared the sentiments.

Blake Lively, another host, had another reason to gush. "I wish sometimes that I lived in another era," she said. "All the music I listen to is Billie Holliday, Chet Baker, Edith Piaf...Chanel represents a woman of another time, and I think it really embodies that old-time glamour that I love." The Gossip Girl star, who sported a stunning black sheath and a cluster of Chanel jewels at her neck, also took a second to think of Karl Lagerfeld, who though he wasn't at the fête, was certainly present in the crowds of Chanel-clad chicettes. "I think he's incredible, I just love him," she enthused. "He looks very serious and unapproachable, but then you talk to him and he's so kind and warm and charming and alive and exciting! It's really neat to see how different he is than you would perceive him to be."

Kruger missed Lagerfeld as well. "I wish he was here," she said. "I just saw him, though, in Paris. He's my neighbor!"
EMILY GYBEN