“I’m a little nervous about it, but trying to keep it together,” laughed actress Amanda Peet at last night’s Chanel Fine Jewelry dinner at the New York Public Library. The Togetherness star had good reason, as her lobes were dripping with white diamond earrings punctuating her simple black dress. “My stylist saw this dress in Tokyo and was looking for an excuse for me to wear it,” added the actress with a laugh. Peet’s sentiment over her blingy baubles seemed to be echoed among the starlets at last night’s cocktail and dinner, where Girls’s Jemima Kirke thought her diamond Première watch was more suited for her costar and fellow guest. “I feel like Allison Williams should be wearing this and not me!” she exclaimed. However, Williams admitted that she, along with her glam team, had lost 10 minutes of prep time because they were gawking at her own jewels. “When they arrived, a big man arrived probably with a gun, and everything stopped,” said Williams in a minimal shell top and cream leather skirt, adding, “Everyone stopped to go look at the earrings.”
But as guests including Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, Wendi Murdoch, Alessandra and Jon Neidich, and countless others took in the treasures in the atrium, others including Lauren Santo Domingo and Kate Young mingled with Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Phoebe Tonkin, and more over cocktails. However, the evening was still all about the subtle shimmer. “It’s very comfortable,” said Leelee Sobieski, dressed in a futuristic take on a Chanel suit in silver, on her diamond collar. “I was wearing it earlier, lounging around, lengthening the opportunity to wear it in my bathrobe in my bathroom, and it felt equally great,” she said, chuckling. And as the night progressed, the air filled with warm familiarity as chic young things Indre Rockefeller, Laura de Gunzburg, and Barbara Pierce Bush entered the grandly lit room with dinner tables filled with Chanel favorite camellia flowers, which drew audible gasps from the guests. Nearby, actress Dakota Fanning was sporting a major bracelet and ring combination. “I think I’m pretty lucky to be wearing these pieces tonight,” said the 22-year-old, pawing at her oversize diamond cuff. But with such a vast wardrobe—including quite a few pieces from Chanel—does the actress ever play favorites? “I have a lot of beautiful Chanel bags, and I always wanted a pink one, and I finally got a pink one, and so I was very excited about that.”
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