Galarama!



 

 



Kate Mulleavy, Little Missy, Laura Mulleavy, Elle and Dakota Fanning at the Met Gala

 

 

 

What a world wind week it has been! Why can't Galas happen every other month instead of three in four days in three cities on two coasts?  Galarama began for me in San Francisco on May 3rd, when I was still a blond!

 

Blond Little Missy, with Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and patron of the evening Denise Littlefield Sobel

 

 

What a pleasure to be with my old friend Denise Sobel, who brought Cinderella to San Francisco!  Christopher Wheeldon's spectacular choreography and Julian Couch's production was ethereal and I had to pinch myself several times to realise this was really happening in my city!  It was like a Haute Couture show the way I wish Haute Couture would be.  In other words, I loved it!  I have never seen anything like this!  Congratulations to Christopher, Julian, the San Francisco Ballet and especially to Denise and her family for this magical ballet in our town!  And Riccardo Benavides is certainly the events designer de jour in San Francisco with the most exquisite tented dinner in recent memory.  Topiaries like Julian's production masks!  Chandeliers like the ones on stage!  Over the top! But Little Missy did not stay for the after party!  No, she went home before her carriage turned into a pumpkin, before the stroke of midnight!  It's even OK that a server spilt something on my Rodarte gown during dinner.  Even though Kate Mulleavy once joked (not) that if you spill something on a Rodarte gown, just throw the gown away!  But we accentuate the positive in these Chronicles!  And Little Missy always has spot removal tips!  Which involve sending your gowns to Madame Paulette in New York!  Tips I picked up from Geoffrey Beene, my beloved and America's beloved late "Couturier  of Seventh Avenue", a non sequitor if I ever heard one.  I miss Mr. Beene so much.  But now there's Kate and Laura Mulleavy, so the world still spins for Little Missy.

 

Then there was the Party of the Year, the Met Gala

Rocking the brunette with Solange, Beyoncé's little sister

 

 

There is very little I can say about this event that hasn't been said, except Gwyneth,  REALLY? You are never coming to another Gala because it is such a hyped over-produced event?  Well, let's all have the pleasure of watching Anna Wintour talk Miss Paltrow into coming to another tedious Met Gala again! Never say never!  A Little Missy tenet!  You should have watched Little Missy rocking it in the front during Kanye West's  performance!  A little trick I learnt a million and a half years ago, growing up quickly during weekends at Fillmore Auditorium in my beloved City by the Bay!  Move to the front fast! Teaching Dakota and Elle Fanning how to rock it at a show and not be all serious!  Mentoring!  Little Missy style!  Plus I got to debut my new look, a dark flapper bob and a gown Vivienne Westwood created for the night.  A tribute to Punk and to The Great Gatsby, the picture of the moment!  A million different things and sensations and people.  And afterwards, a lot of envy, which produces bad feelings...  An invitation to this party is difficult to obtain. So people deride it.  Until they get invited...maybe the Met Gala is like a drug and Gwyneth wants to de-tox.  So, Little Missy wagers that even if Gwyneth, my fellow blogger, skips out next year, she'll be back the year after!  She'll have to!  It's the Party of the Year!  Even Gwyneth isn't above it! 

 

 

 

 

 Photographer Frederic Aranda was a hit with the Fanning sisters 

 

 

My companion for the Gala, Frederic Aranda and I are certainly not above the Met Gala! We had fun!  We had the opportunities to greet our idols, Freddie to greet the incomparable Bill Cunningham and I to greet the well, incomparable Vivienne Westwood. What else are you supposed to do at a Gala?  Stay home if you don't like it!  That is if you are lucky enough to get invited!  Be in the moment, my friends! Because the moments go fast...

 

 

 

 Small world---I sat with this girl at the Met Gala and then at the Hillary Gala in LA two nights later! 











 

Now we are in Los Angeles, and it is a brisk overcast afternoon, and Joni Binder and I are getting our makeup done for the Pacific Council on International Policy Gala, honoring Hillary Clinton!  Joni, my powerhouse friend, is a member!  I am her guest!  Tone it down, Little Missy!  so...I wore a Rodarte gown, to show the California colors!  And a girl I sat next to at the Met Gala sat at my table at this Gala!  How random is that?  Galas galore!  Kind of a small world!  But kind of not!  Hillary was inspiring.  She spoke graciously about Warren Christopher and his career and his impact on her.

 

This is the gown I wore, except this shot is from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Auction

 

 The Council's Warren Christopher Public Service Award went to my beloved Hillary, and who else should it have gone to?  Hello!  No pictures allowed, as it was a Secret Service kind of event.  Very special and very powerful.  I love Los Angeles political events--because LA is such an entertainment town, it makes politics feel special, imbued with a kind of crystalline glamour.  I hope Little Missy isn't rocking the precious language too much here...what I am trying to say is that Los Angeles just knows how to do events.  It's more laid back than New York because of the Weather!  And don't Los Angelenos know it!  Little Missy does not like cold weather, so let the people in LA talk all they want about their  beautiful weather.  Just as long as they keep supporting Hillary Clinton!

 

Well, that's Galarama!  Little Missy will have to work hard to come up with something to top this week!  Galarama all weekend my friends.  Rock it dressy or rock it casual!  But rock it while you can!  In the moment, my friends.  In the moment.