Greg + Lesley’s New Party

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Kate Moss + AP Bash

Kate’s Wedding

(Takin a break on the balcony at the AP bash)

I got to DJ a super cool party for Kate Moss thrown by Agent Provocateur recently held at the Milk Studios in New York City. The event was called WHITE WEDDING in which the idea was Kate marrying AP via a concept piece created by Photographer Nick Knight. The entire Starworks New York office was enlisted to work the event. Not a bad way to spend the night.

(Self-portrait before the event)

(Our helping hand Katie stuck on elevator duty all night)

Most guests were greeted by our elevator hostess Starworker Katie Rudik (pictured above) who works on and off in our office in between college. We squeezed her into an Agent Provocateur outfit which as you can tell fit her like a glove. She kept telling me when the elevator doors opened, she shook her hips to my music, but was bummed when the doors closed, and she descended again to pick up more guests. Sorry Katie! But you looked awesome.

(Actress/Producer Lake Bell. Julia Restoin-Roitfeld with boyfriend Magnus. The Misshapes)

(Designer Sari Gueron. Designers D and Ricky. Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corre)

(Genevieve Jones and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld. Designer Robert Tagliapietra, Sally Lyndley and desinger Jeffrey Costello)

(AP’s Naughty Playlist)

AP is one of those clients you love to take direction from. Their taste is a little bit of British Rock, a little dirty selection of Vintage Sex Songs (bad girl tunes), a little Country, a little Northern Soul, and a little 50’s American Rebel Rock — with some ska spirit intertwined somehow. Here’s a vibe of the music I dropped that night.

1- “Noir et Blanc”- Brigitte Bardot
2- “Bonnie & Clyde” – Serge Gainsbourg
3- “This is Radio Clash”- The Clash
4- “Big Spender-” Peggy Lee
5- “Back in Baby’s Arm’s”- Patsy Kline
6- “I Was Made For You” - Zooey Deschanels’ She & Him
7- “Runaround Sue”- Dion
8- “Dancin’ Party” - Chubby Checker
9- “Mr. Postman”- The Marvelette’s
10- “You Never Can Tell” – Chuck Berry
11- “King Size Papa”- Julia and her Boyfriends
12- “A Message to You Rudy”, The Specials
13- “Loaded”, Primal Scream

Read more on the event at Fashion Week Daily / Let Them Eat Cake.

All Step & Repeat photos by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images North America

All other photos by Jauretsi

AP + Vienna + LIFEBALL

I don’t even know where to begin…LIFE BALL 2008…what a ride…

Tara at check-in at the Double Tree Hotel where we received our boarding passes. Our wild trip started Thursday, May 15th at the Double Tree Hotel before we boarded the Austrian Airlines private plane to Vienna for the 16th Annual LIFE BALL 2008.

This year’s theme: Landing on Planet Life Ball. Gery Kreszler, organizer of LIFE BALL, chose the theme to represent outsiders and aliens in society and of course, the guests dressed accordingly as extraterrestrials and some form of alien or robot. Two things I saw a lot of this weekend:

Make-up and actually, not “no smoking” but smoking. In my mind, I thought, please, no smoking but even though the signs may say it, it surely wasn’t followed.Tara and I met the ever so talented Aubrey Chung, make-up stylist and fellow New Yorker. A frequent attendee of Life Ball, Aubrey guided us throughout the event and was always looking after us. We HEART Aubrey!

Aubrey in the middle

And ironically, we found out Aubrey did Costello Tagliapietra’s make-up during their last two fashion shows - small world…Aubrey performed his magic on our Agent Provocateur Testimonial for LIFE BALL, EVE and she looked gorgeous. An Austrian reporter asked EVE what she thought of LIFE BALL and she responded saying how much she supported the cause and that in her “past life, I was a hippy so I am all about love.”

But I’m completely jumping ahead of myself. The day we landed, Friday, Tara and I were greeted off of the plane by a long red carpet and the paparazzi.

Of course, it wasn’t for us so sweeping by wasn’t all that difficult! We were quickly shuttled off to the hotel where we got ready to head over to the MINI COOPER photo shoot with Joe Corre.Some place on the top floor of a warehouse and parking facility, we found them…them meaning, the biker models, cuffed inside the MINI COOPER …and Joe happily being cuffed next to them!

After the photoshoot, Tara and I headed to City Hall where the big extravaganza was taking place. The preparation for such a huge production was insane. I’ve never seen anything like it - imagine 40,000 people coming to City Hall to watch this performance and the make-up artists told me that they were doing over 200 models for the entire performance. The infamous celebrity stylist Danilo, was in charge of all hair for the show and Bobby B oversaw all make-up. It was truly wondrous to watch them all in action…

A glimpse of the theme for the Agent Provocateur show on Saturday…

Friday night was the welcoming cocktail party where I had the honor of meeting Mick Jones from the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite. He was excited to be performing on stage with Joe Corre on Saturday. Also, attending was Debbie Harry sitting in a corner with Jody Watley. Both Debbie Harry and Jody Watley performed on Saturday and were powerhouses on stage.

On Saturday, it was preparation. We had the press conference where Linda Evangelista and Kim Catrall spoke with Joe Corre and Gery Krezsler and Kevin Frost of amfAR. Linda will always look like the supermodel she is and Kim shocked us all when she broke out in German causing applause and admiration with her grace and kind words. Kevin Frost, President of Global Initiative for amfAR commented that when they asked Kim Catrall to attend they almost didn’t expect she would be able to attend since she was touring with her new movie Sex and the City however, she only asked one question about attending, “What time should I be there?”Saturday night was intense…to give you an idea of the size of this event, here is an image of the red carpet leading to the stage. With about 40 thousand people watching outside and television crews airing this internationally.

One of my favorite parts of the show was watching Chicks on Speed, I saw them last at the MOMA in New York City during a POP RALLY event and saddened to see only two of them perform their energy with Amanda Lepore was phenomenal.

Here are more images from the night…

Signing off…from Planet Life Ball…

Tulips and Pansies

SW2 Casting Director Lisa Duckworth lent her talents to an excellent cause last night, casting models to walk the runway at Village Care of New York’s Tulips and Pansies event to raise money for older adults living with HIV/AIDS.

(Catherine Malandrino in Collaboration with Daily Blossom)

Co-Chaired by Lydia Hearst and Heatherette’s Richie Rich and Traver Rains, the show featured headpieces made entirely of flowers paired with fashions from designers such as Alvin Valley, Catherine Malandrino, Shoshanna, Alixis Bittar, b. michael, Cynthia Steffe and Betsey Johnson.

(Hunter Dixon in collaboration with Rountree Flowers, FORM New York in collaboration with Verde Custom Flowers, Inc.)

Village Care of New York

C Mag + DVF + Nicole

Shop For A Cause
by Lauren Perinchief (Starworks LA)
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(Entourage’s Perry Reeves and Monique Lhuillier)

Last Tuesday, C Magazine teamed up with Nicole Richie to host “Shop for a Cause” at Diane von Furstenberg’s Melrose store. Richie pals and DVF devotees including Teen Vogue’s Carlos Lopez, Samantha Traina, Entourage’s Perry Reeves, Nancy Davis, Loree Rodkin, and Monique Lhuillier. They shopped to the tunes of DJ Michael Smith while mingling with C Mag founder Jennifer Smith Hale. In addition to the lady shoppers, Joel Madden got into the shopping spirit by pointing out some pieces he liked to his fashionista girlfriend, Nicole!

(Nicole Richie)

Proceeds from the event benefited the Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation, a non-profit organization formed by the couple to help children in need.

Richie-Madden Foundation Official Site