Tory Burch hosted a cocktail reception for the premiere of Tory by TRB at Bergdorf Goodman. Tory’s supporters from New York’s social set, the media, and behind-the-scenes drivers of the industry gathered and admired the collection including Style gurus such as Elle’s Nina Garcia, and Allure’s Linda Wells, as well as a host of social celebs such as Muffie Potter Aston, Somers Farkas, Valesca Hermes, Jennifer Creel, Whitney Fairchild, Aerin Lauder, Gillian Hearst, Debbie Bancroft, Susan Fales-Hill, Annie Churchill, Gigi Mortimer, CeCe Cord, Rachel Hovnanian, Elizabeth Lindemann, Michelle Gerber Klein, Mish Tworkowski, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Patty Raynes, Richard Mishaan, Bergdorf’s Robert Burke, Maggie Norris, Susan Shin, Andrew Saffir, Christina Stevens, Tish Grady, Alexandra Kramer, Samantha Boardman, Jill Roosevelt, Kaliope Karella, Mario Buatta, Rachel Sheedy, Libby Fitzgerald, Martin Marks, Martha Kramer, Pamela Gross, Andrea and Ashley Stark, Michael Cannon, Blanca Brillenbourg, Caroline Berthet, Cristina Cuomo, Beth Blake, Beth Blake, Janice Savitt, Dennis Basso, Anne Grauso, Julia Koch, and Rupal Patel.

The Olsen Twins

After fueling up, we navigated our way around various heavenly bodies, Black Holes, avoided 15 ton meteorites and completed our voyage into the VIP section, where we gazed upon a galaxy of stars in varying orders of magnitude.

Among them: Jennifer Lopez, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Isabella Rossellini, Kate Moss and Kenneth Cole, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Marc Anthony, Tatum O’Neill, Jemma Kidd & Arthur Earl of Mornington, Nadine Johnson, Mickey Sumner, Andrea Casiraghi and Tatiana Santo Domingo, Francesca Versace & Ernst von Hanover Jr, Veronica Webb, Patrick McDonald, Kenny Kenny, Carol Alt, John Norwood, Cari Modine, Irina Pantaeva, Lady Bunny, B 52’s Fred Schneider, Ghislaine Maxwell, Fabian Basabe, Anand Jon, Bai Ling, Ann Jones, fashion darlings As Four (Adi, Ange, Kali & Gabi), Sante D’Orazio, Bettina Zilkha, Cristina Greeven Cuomo, Wolfgang Joop, Suzy Menkes, Angie Everhart, Casey Johnson, Kelly Klein, Andy Hilfiger, Alvin Valley, Deborah Cox, Cynthia Garrett, Debbie Bancroft, Patty Raynes, Isabelle Rattazzi, Audrey Marnay, Jill Roosevelt, Lydia Hearst, Charles Rockefeller, Annie Churchill, Natalie “Alabama” Chanin, Eva Lorenzotti, Gillian Hearst, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Tatum O’Neal, Skye Nellor, Vikram Chatwal, Sybil and David Yurman, Andrew Saffir, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Stephen Cojocaru, Heatherette’s Richie Rich and Trevor Raines, Holly Dunlap, Amy Raiter, Kim Heirston, Fern Mallis, Tama Janowitz, Caroline Berthet, and Drena DeNiro. "We have more stars than there are in the skys!"

Click here for an interesting piece of history regarding the birth of Coty.

- Chris Prendergast for NYSD.

Dini von Mueffling and Kris Fuchs

A big crowd turned out to celebrate the 90th birthday of Danish designer Hans Wegner, creator of the Wishbone chair. Wallpaper magazine and the Soho contemporary furniture shop Troy cohosted cocktails in the lobby of the Lever House.

Among the oohers and ahhers over the eight new colors the chairs now come in were design legends Calvin Klein and Donna Karan; Steve Tisch and his beautiful wife Jamie; Lowes CEO and Steve's brother Jon, actress Bai Ling, Cynthia Garrett, Vogue's Hamish Bowles and Katie Ford. Kris Fuchs, Troy's head PR and marketing honcho, gathered such swells as Serena and Samantha Boardman, Scoop's Stefani Greenfield, jewelry designers Jennifer Miller and Nina Runsdorf, Rita Schrager, Andrew Cuomo, architects David Mann and Campion Platt, Dini von Mueffling, PR maveness Harriet Weintraub, Wallpaper EIC Jeremy Langmead, Troy's Troy Halterman, and Kris' hubby Michael, who (along with Aby Rosen) owns the Lever House and the Seagram Building.

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