The Friday Party Report
Vanity Fair and USA Network celebrated the launch of "The Character Project" photo exhibit at Stephen Weiss Studio last night. Editor Graydon Carter, the mag's publisher Edward Menicheschi, and NBC Cable Entertainment president Bonnie Hammer were on hand to welcome Mena Suvari, Christian Siriano (left), Lucy Liu, Donna Karan and daughter Gabby De Felice, Katie Lee Joel, Rachel Roy, Rosie Perez, Jeff Goldblum, Peggy Siegal, Rose McGowan, Sylvia Plachy, Michael Musto, Gigi Stone, Lisa Anastos, Caryn and Jeff Zucker, Paz de la Huerta, Sky Nellor, Jeremy Kost, Josh Bernstein, Yigal Azrouël, Elise Overland, Bettina Prentice, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Kipton Cronkite, Liam McMullan, Izzy Gold, and Gossip Girl's Amanda Setton and Dreama Walker. [PMc, Wireimage, Getty, VF, NYO]
• Real estate mogul Aby Rosen hosted a party at Lever House Wednesday night to celebrate his new development at 350 West Broadway and show off the building's new $26 million penthouse listing. In addition to Aby and his wife, Samantha Boardman Rosen (left), the crowd included John McDonald, Alberto Mugrabi, Larry Gagosian and Shala Monroque, Elizabeth Stribling, Peggy Siegal, Jed Garfield, Barbara and Donald Tober, Michele Oka Doner, Dennis Cusack, Pamela D'Arc, Pamela Nichols, and Melissa Berkelhammer. [PMc, GoaG]
• Vogue and Tod's and joined forces on Wednesday night to sponsor a Save Venice benefit at Tod's Madison Avenue boutique. Guests in attendance included Luigi Tadini and Adelina Wong Ettelson (left), Alina Cho, Antony Todd, Geoffrey Bradfield, Sandra Ripert, Lydia Fenet, Di Petroff, Susan Shin, Bettina Prentice, Mark Gilbertson, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Blair Voltz Clarke, Lara Meiland-Shaw, Carrie Cloud, Meredith Darrow, and everyone's favorite fameseekers, Real Housewives' Simon van Kempen and Alex McCord. [PMc, VF, NYO, GoaG]