Lisa Perry Style launch party
The tents that will showcase New York City fashion week are barely up, and the runway shows won't start for another few days, but NYC is already steaming up with fashion fever. Tuesday night, a full four days before Fashion Week commences, saw the Soho launch of new designer and Manhattan socialite Lisa Perry’s mod Sixties-inspired first collection. Actually, according to Ms. Perry, not just the debut, but all her future collections will be riffs of the swinging style, as it’s the only trend she herself has worn since, well, the Age of Aquarius. Accordingly, her party and mini-dresses were splashed with Day-Glo colours, polka dots and whimsy. Waiters wandered among the dresses — which were displayed on mannequins arranged shoulder-to-shoulder like a platoon of Edie Sedgwicks — with trays of ironic Sixties canapés. The coin-sized cheese burgers and matchstick slivers of grilled-cheese sandwiches dunked in shot glasses of tomato soup were a wink at antiquated ideas of high-style hostessing. Or maybe, with several Vogue editors in attendance, the microscopic food was tailored to the fashion guest-list’s eating habits?
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