What Is It With Junkets in Turkey?
Despite other instances of lamery (new word!), Radar reports (with major research on PatrickMcMullan.com) on quite the swagfest: last week, eighty of the city's most important arbiters of snobbery were invited on an all-expense-paid trip to Istanbul to celebrate a Turkish department store's collaboration with fashion darling Zac Posen. Guests included Rufus Albemarle, Paz de la Huerta, Isabella Blow, Padma Lakshmi, Amy Sacco — you know, the usual Saturday night board-game crew. The gang enjoyed the requisite yacht time, black-tie dining, performance from Dita von Teese, and perhaps some skinny-dipping and swinging.
Above, some of the lucky ones enjoy a cruise on the world's second largest yacht, the Savrona. And who's that dapper fellow on the left? It's former gossip fluffer-cum-Men's Voguebot (and Tabloid Wars breakout star) Hud Morgan. Good to see he's still wearing pink so well...though when sporting a bow-tie, he bears an undeniable resemblance to Tucker Carlson. Which is fitting, we suppose. Dance with those stars, Hud! Dance like nobody's watching!
