12/01/2015
LA Times
Why Waste Elegance on the Guests?
October 22, 1995
We were intrigued by the opening-night party for the Lalique boutique on Rodeo Drive on Friday. According to the invitation, the elegant event, a fund-raiser for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Fashion Circle, was to be held in a tented parking lot behind the shop and hosted by Madame Marie-Claude Lalique herself. We wondered if any Lalique crystal was involved in the formal dinner for the 120 guests--after all, Lalique's most serviceable product is, undoubtedly, its stemware.....
* Security With Class: Now that Sotheby's has relocated to bigger, better offices on Wilshire Boulevard (across from Saks), employees must wear security badges. We hear that just about everyone who toils at the auction house has opted to suspend their IDs with designer ribbon. The No. 1 ribbon choice is Barneys followed by Hermes and Chez Simone. Chez Simone? That's Simone de Cesare who makes the handmade chocolate truffles wrapped in exquisite ribbons.
