TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Elizabeth Snead THAT'S A WRAP: The guest list for Diane von Furstenberg's intimate luncheon in her elegant, new all-white Melrose Avenue Melrose Avenue is a well-known Los Angeles street that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Hoover Street in Silver Lake. Melrose runs north of Beverly Boulevard and south of Santa Monica Boulevard. boutique was filled with stylish young stars who love her new clothing, accessories and jewelry lines. But von Furstenberg is used to that. Back in the '70s, her wrap jersey dresses were sold by Fred Hayman on Rodeo Drive Rodeo Drive (IPA: /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/) generally refers to a famous three-block long stretch of boutiques and shops in Beverly Hills, California, United States, although the street stretches further north and south. and worn by then- trendsetters Ali MacGraw Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress. Biography Youth Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" and Candice Bergen. Von Furstenberg's new lunch bunch included Rita Wilson, Jessica Capshaw, ``Vegas'' star Marsha Thomason, actresses Kelly Lynch, Melissa George, Natasha Henstridge, Sarah Wynter, Julie Delpy, Julie Bowen, Taryn Manning and Teri Polo, most wearing her reintroduced classic wrap dress. Reality TV star Janice Dickinson, always louder than life, mugged it up for pictures. Nia Vardalos caught up with her pal, Rita Wilson. Lisa Rinna remarked that DVF DVF Dansk Vægtløftnings-Forbund DVF Digital Video Format DVF Divide Floating DVF Device Features DVF Dv Graphics File is a such a hot seller in her Sherman Oaks and Calabasas Belle Gray boutiques that ``I can barely keep them in stock!'' No ``Desperate Housewives'' at von Furstenberg's intimate lunch (only Teri Hatcher's stylist, Vincent Boucher, was there) but Andrea Bowen, Teri's daughter on the show, showed up for von Furstenberg's evening cocktail party later that day, along with ``Nip/Tuck'' star Joely Richardson, ``Gilmore Girls' '' Alexis Bledel, star stylist Rachel Zoe and famed foodie Wolfgang Puck. One Desperate Housewife was seen out on the town. Emmy winner Felicity Huffman and hubby William H. Macy hit the Williams-Sonoma Home Store's swanky swank·y adj. swank·i·er, swank·i·est Swank. swank  i·ly adv.swank soiree soi·ree also soi·rée n. An evening party or reception. [French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin in West Hollywood. Seen petting suede sofas, testing chairs, cooing over crystal, nibbling nibbling Nutrition The consumption of multiple–up to 17–'mini-meals' per day, as opposed to the usual 3 meals/day. Cf Bingeing, Gorging. on caviar and sipping bubbly: Minnie Driver, in a miniskirt miniskirt skirts hemmed at mid-thigh or higher; heyday of the leg in fashion world (1960s). [Am. Hist.: Sann, 255–263] See : Fads and boots, Bonnie Hunt, Kelly Lynch and Ashley Scott, as well as socialites Anna Getty and Nancy Davis. Huffman was surprised by the lack of kitchen appliances in the ultra-elegant new store. ``I really came to find a blender,'' she confessed. ``But hey, maybe I'll buy a couch instead.'' BASIC AUCTIONEERING INSTINCT: If Sharon Stone ever tires of acting, she'd be a great auctioneer. At the Macy's Passport '05 Gala AIDS benefit, Sharon turned one auction item, a half-hour lesson with tennis champ Pete Sampras, into a bidding war. First she brought Pete on stage at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and then she upped the ante, stretching his court time to an hour, tossing in lunch and a tour of his trophy room. The result: two packages for a total of $35,000. ``I'd pay that much to see his trophies,'' she quipped. When the clasp CLASP - Computer Language for AeronauticS and Programming on her backless Elsie Katz denim gown opened, Sharon joked, ``You know how it is. You take your clothes off for a movie, and they just keep coming off!'' But she turned her wardrobe malfunction into an auction bonus item. And a man actually paid $500 to come on stage and fasten Sharon's dress. Stone's auction tally? $166,000 for the evening, which raised over $1.4 million total. Watching the fund-raising fun: Venus Williams, Wilmer Valderrama, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, whose Sweetface line was modeled during the fashion segment. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) WILSON, VON FURSTENBERG: Embracing the classics. Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com (2) STONE: Who's got her back? Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com |
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