The program for last night’s Guggenheim International Gala made no exaggerations when noting that the evening had been “made possible by Dior”—the house seemed to have dressed every woman in the room. Olympia Scarry showed off her new pixie cut (more Robin Wright than Tinker Bell) in a silver jacquard tunic; Caroline Issa was all tied up in a selection from Dior’s fall collection; one of the evening’s honorees, Carrie Mae Weems, looked majestic in a double-breasted suit jacket. Zoë Kravitz and _Vogue’_s Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, both in Raf Simons’ designs (the latter accessorizing with a pair of cerulean gloves), made repeat appearances in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fifth Avenue rotunda after attending the museum’s pre-party the night before. Simons himself arrived with**Anna Wintour,** who could not be missed in a capelet of brilliant vermillion.
After addressing the dinner crowd with poignant anecdotes of Simons’s loyalty to the Guggenheim both in New York and abroad, Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano also suggested that over the course of the week he had become “an expert in the eeks eeks,” referencing The xx, who had performed at the gala pre-party and attended last night, as well. Toledano’s consummately French pronunciation induced what was perhaps the first public laugh out of Jamie xx.
The gala came at the end of a very busy fundraising week for the art world—one gentleman at my table opined that he’d simply run out of tuxedo shirts—but with auction week on the horizon, curators and collectors have no hope of slowing down soon.
