The Week In Parties
♦ The opening of Elizabeth Peyton's New Museum exhibition on Tuesday was full of her friends and fans like Marc Jacobs (with boyfriend Lorenzo Martone, left), Glenn O'Brien, Amy Astley, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, Hope Atherton, Cecily Brown, Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Gavin Brown, Barbara Gladstone, Debbie Harry, and Thelma Golden. [The Daily, PMc]
♦ Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer teamed up with Vogue on Tuesday night to host the launch of Lacoste Pink at Lacoste on Fifth Avenue and shoppers got a first look at the company's pink-themed collection with 10% of the profits going to Evelyn Lauder's Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Co-hosts Rose Byrne, Marisa Brown, Gigi Mortimer, and Cynthia Lufkin were joined by Gillian Miniter, Nicole Miller, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Philip Bloch, Anisha Lakhani, Zani Gugelmann, Emma Snowdon Jones, Melissa Berkelhammer, and Alexandra Lebenthal. [The Daily, Park Ave Peerage, Wireimage]
♦ On Thursday night, Francisco Costa, Kim Hastreiter and Hunter Hill hosted a dinner to celebrate Paper magazine's art issue with covergirl Julianne Moore, photographed by Marilyn Minter. Moore and Minter were toasted by Matthew Modine, Christopher and Amanda Cutter Brooks, Allison Sarofim and Stuart Parr, Anh Duong, and Sally Singer and Joseph O' Neill. [The Daily]
♦ At Monday's Max Out for Obama event at the Gregory Colbert Studio in the East Village, Alec Baldwin, E.L. Doctorow, Calvin Trillin, Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Peter Carey, Jonathan Lethem, Aubrey O'Day, Victor Navasky, Marc Ecko, and MC Alan Cumming helped swell Barack's coffers. [PMc]
♦ At the Monday night launch party for Lucky magazine's Kim France and Andrea Linett's new book, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style, Joy Bryant, Charlotte Ronson, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Rebecca Taylor, 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer, Dana Foley, and Anna Corinna mingled on the terrace of the Bowery Hotel. [GoaG, The Daily]
♦ On Tuesday night, at the party for Domino: The Book of Decorating, Domino editor Deborah Needleman was joined by interior designer Jonathan Adler, Celerie Kemble, and Thom Felicia as well as by her husband Jacob Weisberg, Allison Sarofim, Arianna Huffington, Jane Mayle, David Rosenthal, Malcolm Gladwell, Lela Rose, and Meghan O'Rourke. [PMc]