After a chaotic week of running between shows and parties, the Boucheron cocktail party Tuesday evening — held in the garden at the Cooper Hewitt museum with a lullaby of a performance by Leon Bridges — felt like a much-needed balm. That is, once you actually made it up to 91st Street.
The jewelry brand was celebrating the opening of its first New York boutique, and installed an immersive exhibit in the museum called “From Paris to New York: A Cutting-edge Journey Since 1858,” which shows off the brand’s 166-year history of pieces. The exhibition deposited guests out into the garden, where sparkling rosé was passed, couches had been arranged and mingling commenced.
The night was attended by many a Hollywood star, each more glittering in jewels than the next. Gwyneth Paltrow, Colman Domingo, Hailee Steinfeld, Cole Sprouse and girlfriend Ari Fournier, Mina, Alexa Chung, and Anja Rubik were each outfitted in Boucheron gems. Other guests included Nicole Ari Parker, Aly Raisman, Bambi Northwood-Blyth, Camila Coelho, Leni Klum, Pritika Swarup and Tina Leung.
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Paltrow posed for photos alongside François-Henri Pinault before finding her husband, Brad Falchuk, in the crowd. The two found a seat on one of the couches and held hands as cameras lit up Steinfeld, who was posing nearby. Sprouse made a show of smoking a cigarette for a photo op, as Fournier looked on. Chung, fresh from the Tory Burch runway the night before, chatted with Boucheron creative director Claire Choisne. Domingo, ever the charmer, indulged requests for selfies.
As the sun had fully set, Bridges took to the stage alongside his band, opening into his hit with Khruangbin, “Texas Sun,” before played songs like “River” and “Beyond.” Bridges had the crowd clinging to his every word — even the BFA photographer was singing along in the front row.
“That was so nice,” a seemingly weathered fashion week attendee sighed contently.
