In Paris, Wardrobe.NYC Fetes its Collab With Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at (Where Else but) Caviar Kaspia

Christine Centenera, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh GootPhoto: German Larkin

An invitation to a Wardrobe.NYC dinner guarantees a good time. Thursday, the brand’s founders, Josh Goot and Christine Centenera, celebrated their collaboration with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in serious style. The industry’s top tastemakers ascended the stairs of the iconic Caviar Kaspia to celebrate a collection as sophisticated and elegant as Huntington-Whiteley herself.

Unsurprisingly, given the brand’s signature palette and the rain that showered Paris all day, nearly everyone wore black. The crowd looked like mourners at a stylish funeral imagined by Helmut Newton: all fishnets, shoulder pads, leather, and dark glasses. In rare flashes of color, Derek Blasberg wore a navy blue shirt and Daniel Lee, whose creations for Bottega Veneta and later Burberry Huntington-Whiteley helped make viral sensations, sported a coat in deep forest green. The air soon filled with the scent of cigarette smoke and exotic perfume. Models, designers, artists, and stylists sipped Belvedere martinis and swapped gossip.

The partnership is a natural one. Goot and Centenera founded the label in 2017 as the antithesis of fast fashion: luxury essentials, distilled into their most desirable form. Throughout her years as a model, actress, and entrepreneur, the British-born Huntington-Whiteley captured global attention for her personal style, which is at once paired back and very glamorous.

Actress Abbey Lee embodied a 1980s glamazon in her padded suit. Amina Muaddi, whose eponymous shoe line is beloved by the world’s most photographed women, shimmered in dark leather. Lena Perminova, Russian beauty and wife of billionaire Alexander Lebedev, strutted around in fishnets. Famed photographer German Larkin flashed his camera around the wood-paneled rooms. Even surrounded by so many beautiful people, all eyes were on Huntington-Whiteley. With her glossy blonde hair falling over her face, she recalled early screen idols like Veronica Lake and Lana Turner.

“Unveiling the Wardrobe NYC x RHW collection at Caviar Kaspia was a match made in heaven,”  Huntington-Whiteley said. “To be surrounded by so many friends, family, and special collaborators and supporters was incredibly special.”