| Marjorie
Gubelmann Raein and Daniel Benedict, two of
New York’s most popular social stars, launched their
new company, Vie Luxe, at a dinner that was attended by le
tout New York.
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Daniel
Benedict and Marjorie Gubelmann Raein
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The company,
a home collection line which features the chicest candles,
votive gift sets, room mists,
hand soaps, and body creams, in a variety of scents,
each named after their favorite travel destinations – Palm Beach,
Capri, Maldives, Tuileries, and St. Moritz – has
been receiving raves from the smartest editors around
town (W,
Vogue, Bazaar, Allure, and many more), and buyers
across the globe (from LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas,
etc.
all the way to Hong Kong and back) have been snatching
up the product
right and left. Saks and Bergdorf’s are both carrying
the handsome line, and they joined Marjorie and Daniel
at an over-the-top launch dinner held at Ono Restaurant
(Jeffrey
Chodorow’s latest hotspot in the Hotel Gansevoort)
that had this town’s best and brightest dining
and dancing and debauch-ing until the wee hours.
Among those swooning over Vie Luxe were (take a deep breath): Helena
Christensen, Michael Kors, Hamish Bowles, Jane Lauder, Tory Burch, Jennifer
Creel, Serena Boardman, Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen, Sally and Rufus
Albemarle, Ivanka Trump, Patricia Herrera and Gerrity Lansing, Lillian
and Damian von Stauffenberg, Renee Rockefeller, Vanessa von Bismarck, Nina
Griscom and Leonel Piraino, Terry Allen Kramer and Nick Simunek, Anh Duong,
Jerry Della Femina and Judy Licht, Anne McNally, Janice Combs, Dennis Basso
and Michael Cominotto, Jill and Andrew Roosevelt, Olivia Chantecaille,
Jodi Della Femina and John Kim, Marisa Noel Brown, Jill and Harry Kargman,
Tiffany Dubin, Pamela Gross, Bettina Zilkha, Debbie Bancroft, Helen and
Tim Schifter, Andrew Saffir, Elizabeth Lindemann, Whitney and James Fairchild,
Fernanda Niven, Jackie and Jean-Francois Astier, Lauren Davis, Patrick
McMullan, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Susan Magrino and Jim Dunning, Lucy
Sykes and Euan Rellie, Couri Hay, Alexandra Kotur, Jonathan Becker, Bob
Colacello, Grace Meigher, Nina Garcia, Bill Smith, Christian Leone, Scott
Currie, Gretchen Gunlocke, Kevin Krier, James Reginato, Marcie Pantzer,
Carlos Mota, Brad Kroenig, Jeffrey and Linda Chodorow, Saks
Fifth Avenue’s Deborah Walters and Kate Oldham, Bergdorf
Goodman’s Robert Burke, Tuleh’s Bryan
Bradley, Valentino’s Carlos Souza, Vie
Luxe VP Michele Brown, and a gaggle of Gubelmanns – Susan,
William, Shelley, Phoebe, Tantivy and Bingo. Whew!
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