SCHMOOZE : FASHIONABLE TRIBUTE TO MAGAZINE MAVEN.What: MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) (Museum of Contemporary Art) Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts luncheon Wednesday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , featuring a stylin' fashion show that transported models down the runway on a conveyor belt conveyor belt One of various devices that provide mechanized movement of material, as in a factory. Conveyor belts are used in industrial applications and also on large farms, in warehousing and freight-handling, and in movement of raw materials. . Starring: Tina Brown Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, a personal friend. , editor of the New Yorker magazine, dressed, of course, in a Chanel suit. Author/journalist (``The Two Mrs. Grenvilles'' and the O.J. Simpson trial) Dominick Dunne presented the award, describing Brown as not only his friend, but the editor who gave him back the writing confidence that he thought he'd lost forever after a series of bad book reviews. Brown talked about the thrills of remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling the witty magazine and hiring lots of women, explaining, ``Women tell you what really happened.'' She added that she was ``proud to be the first woman editor of the magazine and prouder still to accept the award.'' Who was there: It was a Chanel fashion-fest, with about 530 women wearing lots of Chanel items, including plenty of boucle bou·clé or bou·cle n. 1. A type of yarn, usually three-ply and having one thread looser than the others, that produces a rough-textured cloth. 2. Fabric woven or knitted from this yarn. jackets (Coco's trademark) with pearls and vintage-looking brooches (they're new again). Also there were a few stars such as Steve Martin, wearing a Romeo Gigli suit, and rock star Rod Stewart and ex-wife Alana, who were there to see their 17-year-old daughter Kimberly open the Chanel show in a black-and-white ensemble with a vintage Connie Stevens-inspired wig and a big hat with black feathers. The Santa Monica-area high school student was making her third runway appearance, along with 25 models from L.A. and London. The eats: Guests gathered at tables decorated with dainty bowls of pastel cabbage roses and tulips accented with ivy for a salmon lunch that was upstaged by a dessert of creme brulee and a mound of dark chocolate pate with raspberries and cream. The bottom line: MOCA president Ellie Goldman and event chairwomen Mandy Einstein and Fran Graysen helped raise more than $100,000 for the museum. CAPTION(S): 5 Photos Photo: (1) Kimberly Stewart, 17, daughter of singer Rod Stewart, opened the Chanel fashion-show fund-raiser Wednesday in Beverly Hills. (2) Chanel makeup director Guy Lento len·to Music adv. & adj. In a slow tempo. Used chiefly as a direction. n. pl. len·tos A lento passage or movement. talked about the new, pale look for spring as he penciled in the brows of model Sarah Jane Wilde. (3) Actor/comedian Steve Martin shows off a Romeo Gigli suit with a striped tie by Margaret Howard. (4) Dressed to the nines were MOCA members Lee Tishkoff of Beverly Hills, left, and Laurie Rubin of Marina del Rey with Amanda Henry of Asprey of London, the royal family's official jeweler. (5) Honoree Tina Brown, second from left, chats with event chairwomen Fran Graysen of Los Angeles, Mandy Einstein of West Los Angeles
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