2024-05-31 00:00:002024-06-06 00:00:00https://avenuemagazine.comAvenue MagazineThe Week in Events: The Starry Premiere of Ezra, a Birthday Bash and loads of Art and Fashion
The Week in Events: The Starry Premiere of Ezra, a Birthday Bash and loads of Art and Fashion
May 31, 2024
The New York Premiere of Bleecker Street and director Tony Goldwyn’s gripping, heartfelt father/son drama Ezra screened at the DGA Theater with the film’s stars Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and newcomer William A. Fitzgerald in the audience.
Ezra stars (and real-life couple) Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale who play the titular character’s parents in the film.Robert De Niro with first-time actor William A. Fitzgerald, who blew the audience away with his performance of a child with autism.Bryan Cranston with Ezra director Tony GoldwynClaire Danes and Hugh DancyComic sensation Matt Friend with Hollywood power-player Jason WeinbergRae Isla and Adrienne Ackerman, the duo behind the film’s title song “Ezra”Kathy Najimy and Dan FinnertyRichard Kind and Tom McCarthyCinema Society founder Andrew Saffir, designer Cynthia Rowley, Daniel Benedict and Ashley SherrardRae Isla on stage performing the title song “Ezra” after the film’s premiere
Drumroll please…Saks, the CFDA and Vogue announced the 2024 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists (and celebrated two decades of the fund) at Le Chalet at L’Avenue.
Meet the finalists: Spencer Phipps, Kate Barton, Presley Oldhan, Jane Wade, Connor McKnight, Grace Ling, Dynasty Ogun, Marianne Amisial, Sebastian Amisial, Soul Ogun, Jackson WiederhoeftThom Browne, Marc Metrick and Steven KolbPresley Oldhan, Jonathan Cohen and Sarah LeffPaloma ElsesserHenry ZankovEva Chen, Jennifer Fisher and Lisa AikenFletcher Kasell and Tanner RichieDynasty Ogun, Rento Soria and Soul OgunDanielle Sirianni
More fashionable fun: the LaPointe Resort /25 collection held a preview, with champagne (and live tattooing by Jon Boy!) at designer Sally LaPointe’s sleek downtown showroom.
Editor Joseph Errico with designer Sally LaPointeTattoo You: writer Freya Drohan getting inked by Jon BoyCoco BasseyThe First Lady of Fashion Fern Mallis and Amanda SmithElizabeth KurpisReese Pozgay, Jilly Hendrix and Mary Blanket Peffer
Tasty! Guests celebrated the art of food at the Parrish Art Museum’s “Canvas & Cuisine” opening and seated dinner in Watermill.
Joey WölfferAliya LeeKongCatherine HolsteinMary SnowChef Angie Mar
The dinner at the Parrish Art Museum was held under a canopy of lights
At Bernie’s in Brooklyn, Cultured and Away celebrated Pride Month and the new Air Willie Pride collection with a wild dinner party that included some serious sashaying.
Marco Ovando, Willie Norris and Willy ChavarriaPhotographer Hunter Abrams, Serena Tea and West DakotaJosh Sacks, Alice Chen and Cameron SackettAudrey HilfigerSerena Tea sashaying for guests.
Digital invitation game-changer Paperless Post (“click to RSVP”) celebrated their 15th birthday with a seated dinner at Café Sabarsky at the Neue Gallerie.
Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour with James Hirschfeld and sister Alexa Hirschfeld who founded Paperless Post in 2008 while James was a student at Harvard.Isabel Wilkinson, Allie Michler Kopelman and Elizabeth KurpisMadeline O’Malley and Tori MellottLeandra Medine Cohen, who founded the now-defunct blog “Man Repeller” and now writes a newsletter “about how to get dressed.”Alexa Hirschfeld and author Bob Colacello
Musical entertainment at the Paperless Post anniversary dinner.
Popular influencer Igee Okafor, the Editor in Chief of the men’s style and culture website Bond Official, celebrated his 30th birthday at David Rabin’s new hotspot The Bronze Owl.
Igee Okafor and Lauren MaxwellDoe Dusty and Amy Juliette LeFevreDelanique Millwood and GreivyKwali Liggons
