The worlds of art and fashion collided at **Antonio Homem’**s Sonnabend Gallery to celebrate **Anh Duong’**s show of compelling self-portraits—her first with this distinguished dealer.
Francisco Costa and Phillip Lim joined Amanda Brooks and Lauren duPont and their artist husbands, who mingled with Duong’s fellow art-world friends, including the collaborative painter-photographers Peter McGough and David McDermott, and Jack Pierson. “So many people kissed me, my cheeks were on fire!” said Duong with a laugh.
Many of us had seen some of these works in progress—a wide-eyed Anh staring at the viewer, curled up on the floor in the exquisite wedding gown that Christian Lacroix created for her; cycling through the tree-lined lanes of Amagansett (where she has a country house and studio); staring down her own image in a bathroom mirror; alone in a Manhattan cityscape—but it was dramatic to see them massed together for the first time.
The festivities continued into the night with a supremely convivial dinner in the atmospheric high-ceiling space at the back of the Waverly Inn, which, with its brick walls, shutters, and explosions of tropical greenery, seems like a New Orleans courtyard—a perfect setting for a Tennessee Williams heroine, or indeed the ebony-eyed Anh herself, striking in a sleek Tom Ford pantsuit.