Last evening, the art and fashion world gathered in style to celebrate Frieze London, with a dinner at Mayfair’s favorite private club, 5 Hertford Street. Upstairs, on the top floor, a woman read the tarot cards of various party guests. “She knew things she couldn’t have known!” said the evening’s host, Lauren Santo Domingo, in a glittering Alessandro Michele-designed Gucci dress. Her cohosts, London based art advisors Hugo Nathan and Wentworth Beaumont declined the opportunity, but good fortune, it seemed rained on all who attended—from Santo Domingo’s Moda Operandi colleague Hayley Bloomingdale, celebrating the end of Paris Fashion Week, to Alexander and Mollie Acquavella, whose booth at Frieze Masters featured Lucian Freud, Brice Marden, and Cy Twombly.
After cocktails, guests, who were mingling upstairs, were led one floor down, to a room where the windowsills were lined with dahlias and where each of the tables were named after famous artistic movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. “Do you think we can take these?” asked one guest of the Salvador Dalí-inspired cocktail napkins. “I’ve already put mine in my purse!” said another. As the night wore on, the colorful wax candles dripping onto the table, talk ranged from whimsical to political—someone had been at a baby shower with Kate Moss, another guest bemoaned the reality of the impending Brexit. After dessert was served—large, chocolate lobsters, croquembouches made of lipstick red gummy candy—Poppy Delevingne put on her striped-pink fur coat to leave, Caroline Sieber hugged her friends farewell. Espresso martinis were available for those who wanted to keep the night going, as partygoers packed the downstairs of the club. Tomorrow, perhaps, some would make their way to Regent’s Park to see the art on display under the tents, and by Sunday the city would breathe a sigh of quiet satisfaction as another successful Frieze comes to a close.
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