On Monday August 23, Cornelia Guest, Amanda Hearst, Anne Hearst McInerney, Patricia Hearst Shaw, Gillian Hearst Simonds and Kimberly Rockefeller hosted a reception for 400 and a dinner for 104 guests at The National Arts Club to celebrate the opening of ‘Charles James: Beneath the Dress.’
The exhibition of 100 fashion and erotic drawings from the private collection of R. Couri Hay, photographs by Anton Perich and a screening of the Charles James documentary by Angela Bernhard Thomas will run until October 5. Guests included: Harvey Weinstein, Georgina Chapman, Jay McInerney, Edward Chapman, Nicole Miller, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas Diandra Douglas, Audrey Gruss, William Ivey Long, Janna Bullock, Terrie Sultan, Jean Shafiroff, Cece Cord who wore Charles James, Sharon Bush Campion Platt, Morgan O’Connor, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan.
Before the dinner, the evening’s host, R. Couri Hay announced he had given 5,000 meals to Lauren Bush Lauren’s FEED Supperinitiative, whose goal is to provide one million meals for the needy by World Hunger Day on October 16th.
Society bandleader, Alex Donner’s orchestra played music from the 1920’s through to the 1950’s – James’ peak design period. The World Champion male tango team of Antón Gazenbeek and Jody P. Person performed a sensual tango, before a screening of the short film.
