Daily Front Row

2010 March 31

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Joan Rivers and Elie Tahari
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(NEW YORK) What’s Stefano Tonchi’s first order of business at W? That would be a rumored trip to Milan’s Furniture Fair in a few weeks. The man does need some tables and chairs for that new office…Jason Wu just returned from a nice and relaxing trip in Uruguay. “We wanted to escape somewhere close and unexpected,” he told us….Graydon Carter, Parker Posey, and Chuck Close are expected at New York magazine’s bash for My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City at the Paramount Hotel’s Library Bar tonight…Elie Tahari and Joan Rivers had an early Seder at Le Caprice late last week before the comedian jetted to LA…Spotted last night at Monkey Bar: Linda Fargo and Charlie Rose in the VIP booths--though not dining together...Stanley Tucci will once again emcee the  Food Bank For New York City’s 8th Annual Can-Do Awards Dinner on April 20…Exciting sighting at SPiN NY? Paul Bettany hitting with his kids at the very front table…Random sighting: An angry-looking Mike Myers storming into the SoHo Grand on Wednesday…Teen Vogue's Jane Keltner is tying the knot to architect Giancarlo Valle in a few weeks in New York, and is busy planning the wedding with her mother...Bon anniversaire today to Prabal Gurung! The design wonder is currently spending his birthday with family in his native Nepal...And speaking of Prabal, the designer has been named one of Paper magazine's Beautiful People of 2010--among the likes of Anna Kendrick, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Mazdack and Zanna Rassi, Ohne Titel's Flora Gill and Alexa Adams, Kalup Linzy, and more...Chris Benz joined W's fashion market director Treena Lombardo for a public Q&A on Saturday at Diane von Furstenberg's studio...Joe Zee is now Facebook friends with Erin Wasson, Lorenzo Martone, Ivan Bart, Norman Jean Roy, Naeem Khan, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, and John Demsey...How did Abbey Lee get to her Chanel shoot last week with the Kaiser himself? Forget the town cars--the model was spotted with the masses in Brooklyn on the Manhattan-bound L train...You may be out of Fashion Week mode, but Toronto's just getting into it: tomorrow, Tommy Ton will host a party at Studio Gallery along with DJ Agyness Deyn...And in even more model news, Anne Vyalitsyna is currently studying for her California Driver’s Ed classes…