PETER DAVIS by pyts
City
of
Dreams
A month of celebrating everything from operatic legends to haute couture
Manhattan is about the mix. I love that I can fly from a black-tie dinner, seated across from legendary
Plácido Domingo, to a bohemian
fashion launch to the CFDA Awards, the
Oscars of fashion—all in less than two
weeks. Beat that social schedule!
My seat across from the divine Mr.
Domingo is at the El Museo del Barrio
Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. Domingo is
given a lifetime artistic achievement
award by my table’s host, Oscar de la
Renta. One of the night’s chairs, beautiful
Yaz Hernandez (in a silk and gold metal
Brian Reyes dress) tells me, “We have
guests from every Spanish-speaking
country, besides our friends from New
York. It is such an international evening.
I adore watching everyone dress to
the nines—they know we Latinas love to
dress up. Una nocha fantastica!” Also in
the room is star stylist PJ Pascual, Carlos
Campos, Moises de la Renta, Narciso
Rodriguez, Candy Pratts Price and
Gillian Miniter in a Gustavo Cadile dress.
“Plácido Domingo’s speech is the high-
light of the night,” Miniter gushes like a
true fan. “He is so sincere and such an
icon.” Rising design star Christian Cota
also meets a role model: Mr. de la Renta.
“I’ve always looked up to him,” Cota says.
“We chatted about my vest, a mint laser-
cut embroidered and beaded piece from
one of my past collections.”
From black tie to boho-chic for N.Y.C.
girl Emilie Ghilaga’s launch of her
fashion label: With Love, Emilie Ghilaga.
The young designer took a five-month
jaunt to Jaipur, India, and came back with
a line of dresses. Ghilaga’s gig is held at the
photography studio of Fadil Berisha. A
platoon of PYTs shows up, most in
Ghilaga’s bold dresses. “Seeing all my
friends wearing the dresses and looking
like goddesses, watching something like
this unfold at this point in my life is
bewildering, reassuring and truly lovely,”
Ghilaga says. Hannah Bronfman, who
dates rapper Asher Roth and is about to
launch her own line called Green Owl,
which will be 100 percent organic and
sustainable, tells me, “I love seeing all the
girls in the dresses, but each girl really
Carlos Campos, Nazira Handal-Poffel
and Rodner Figueroa
Moises de la Renta
Christian Cota
Alexandra Lebenthal
Yaz Hernandez
Narciso Rodiguez and Candy
Pratts Price
Plácido Domingo and Oscar de la Renta
