Media-Whore D'Oevres



"For someone who prefers to retire early with a book, Karl Lagerfeld stayed until well after midnight at the private dinner he hosted at Nobu Berkeley in the Mayfair district Wednesday night. The lavish sit-down affair was thrown on the eve of his Paris-Londres Maison d'Art collection fashion show--to be presented this evening at Phillips de Pury--a high-end pre-collection in honor of the Paris couture ateliers that make Chanel's clothing and accessories. 'I'm not a party animal, you know,' Lagerfeld quipped. The cavernous, futuristic setting of the restaurant, decorated with lacquered black vases and white roses and fragrant with the scents of Les Exclusifs de Chanel, proved to be the best backdrop for the flow of the exquisite LBDs--all Chanel, natch--that guests sported in every shape and color ... As the champagne flowed and guests including Rupert Everett, who cooed, 'Oh, I love Karl,' Lucy Ferry, Thandie Newton, Eugenie Niarchos, Irina Lazareanu (who arrived with Sean Lennon in lieu of Pete Doherty), Daphne Guinness, Tom Ford, David and Serena Linley, Natalie Imbruglia, Camilla Rutherford, Jemma Kidd, Jefferson Hack, Élodie Bouchez, and Bay Garnett mingled and enjoyed a steady stream of mojitos and saketinis." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Senate Republicans on Thursday elevated Lamar Alexander to the third highest-ranking position within their caucus, handing the first-term Tennessee senator the task of massaging their message during the 2008 election season. In secret balloting, Alexander defeated Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.) for chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the No. 3 spot in leadership that spearheads the communications of the caucus. Alexander garnered the support of 31 Senate Republicans while Burr received 16 votes." (TheHill)

"Bobby Peru, the wildest 'thing' about David Lynch’s 1990 movie Wild at Heart will always be how I picture Willem Dafoe. And last night, all I had to say was 'Bobby' for him to turn around and give up that insanely lop-sided, sexy grin. He and Ennio Capasa celebrated the 21st anniversary of the Costume National with a luxuriously appointed dinner party held at M Studio, the white on white on white on white space in the far West Village. It was a memorable night -- it is not, after all, every party that Rufus Albermarle puts me in a taxy and Phillip Bloch gives me his goodie bag that containted a bottle of sexsational Costume National parfum." (Papermag)

"Obama’s Iowa challenge echoes one the Illinois senator faces nationally — translating the power of his celebrity and the genuine enthusiasm for his historic candidacy into success in the more mundane world of political tactics. He is aggressively pursuing groups that have not traditionally caucused for Democrats in Iowa, including high school students like Butterfield. But will that translate into actual support for Obama? Some old Iowa hands aren’t so sure." (Politico)