The Friday Party Report
• Andrew Saffir's Cinema Society hosted a screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Tribeca Grand last night. Attendees at the Pamella Roland and Svedka-sponsored screening and after-party at the Soho Grand included Kanye West, Spike Jonze, Olivia Palermo, Richard Meier, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Lauren Bush and David Lauren, Moby, Amy Sacco, Sandy Brant and Ingrid Sischy, Stefano Tonchi, Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo, Bettina Zilkha, Charlotte Ronson, Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers, Chace Crawford, Debbie Harry, Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy, Judith Light, Kelly Bensimon, Karen Duffy, Liya Kebede, Rachel Roy, Liam McMullan, Ciara, and Danny Masterson. [PMc, Wireimage, The Daily]
• Violinist Joshua Bell performed in front of a private audience inside his own newly-renovated apartment on Wednesday night. The KiptonART-hosted concert attracted the likes of George Soros, Glenn Close and David Shaw, Moby, Renée Fleming, Phil Ramone, Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebel, Adam Weinberg, Sessa von Richthofen and Richard Johnson, Ally Hilfiger, David Patrick Columbia, Lawrence Robbins, and Catherine Sexton. [PMc, NYSD, VF]
• Miuccia Prada didn't manage to show up to an opening night cocktail party at the new Miu Miu store on East 57th Street on Wednesday, but plenty of other notables turned out, like Valentino CEO Graziano de Boni, Claire Danes, Amy Astley, Ciara, Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol, Peaches Geldof, Jeremy Kost, Jessica Joffe, models Sasha Pivovarova and Hana Soukupova, Derek Blasberg, and Stephanie LaCava. [PMc, Style.com]
• Amanda Hearst and Luigi Tadini hosted a Riverkeeper benefit at Ralph Lauren's West Broadway store on Wednesday night. Some of the folks on hand: Annie Churchill, David Lauren and Lauren Bush, Bobby Kennedy III, Mickey Boardman, Tatiana Platt, Anisha Lakhani, Dalia Oberlander, Melissa Berkelhammer, Rich Thomas, Devorah Rose, Susan Shin, Jamie Korey, and Joey Jalleo. [PMc, GoaG]
