Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Lindsay Lohan in Their Fashion Week Best
At a gala and auction in Midtown, the Kering Foundation drew one of the starriest crowds of New York Fashion Week.
Hollywood met fashion in force at a gala and auction on Monday night in Midtown Manhattan, where Kim Kardashian bid on Balenciaga couture, a ɴuᴅᴇ pH๏τograph of Madonna sold for $70,000, and “How do you know Jeff and Lauren?” (Bezos and Sanchez) was a common refrain over cocktails.
At one of the starriest gatherings during New York Fashion Week a crowd turned out for the annual Caring for Women Dinner hosted by the Kering Foundation, to benefit organizations working to end gender-based violence.
Held at The Pool, a restaurant in the Seagram Building, the night was hosted by Salma Hayek Pinault, a Kering Foundation board member, and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, the chairman and chief executive of Kering, which owns Gucci, Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent among others. (Artémis, Mr. Pinault’s family investment company, last year bought a majority stake in one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies, Creative Artists Agency.)
The philanthropic couple can draw a crowd. Matthew McConaughey, Donatella Versace, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Naomi Watts, Leonardo DiCaprio and Julianne Moore were just some of the high-wattage attendees on the guest list.
An affable — and surprisingly energized — Gayle King, who had been up since 3:25 a.m. to co-host “CBS Mornings,” was the M.C. of the event.
“Gender-based violence is not a women’s issue,” she said, “it’s an everybody issue.”
After posing for high-flash pH๏τographs in a corner of the carpeted stairwell and sipping flutes of Champagne at cocktail hour, guests, including the models Karlie Kloss and Alessandra Ambrosio, the singer Ricky Martin, and the basketball player Carmelo Anthony, funneled into the main hall beneath origami-like paper cranes to the sounds of birds chirping.
The square pool at the center of the room, typically filled with water, was instead dry, spilling over with artificial roses and hydrangeas and faux moss. Its marble perimeter was dotted with LED candles as if it were an altar, and later became a resting spot for YSL clutches and dessert plates.
After the first course of ricotta tortellini with shaved black truffle, guests swapped seats to greet friends — Salma Hayek hugged Julianne Moore; Kerry Washington crouched down to talk to Julia Garner; Ms. King greeted Dakota Johnson — and floated around the room before the entrees arrived.
Outside the dining room, with the women’s restroom suddenly closed, a few guests lined up for the men’s room and, after making it past the urinals, smoked cigarettes in stalls without toilet paper.
Inside, Katy Perry and Lindsay Lohan clinked their glᴀsses to several cheers of “woo!” as plates of filet mignon were served alongside Dover sole meunière.
In a sobering speech, Viola Davis spoke of her mother, who faced domestic violence and was “catapulted into poverty.”
“I want a world that doesn’t make it so hard to love ourselves,” she said.
That message seemed to resonate as the bids for a V.I.P. Cannes experience, luxury H๏τel stays and a six-and-a-half-foot Murano glᴀss cactus rolled in, with a little coaxing from the room.
Ms. Fenet asked if anyone would bid $80,000 for a diamond and rubellite cocktail ring.
“A bargain!” Orlando Bloom shouted.
Penetrative stares from Ms. Perry and the offer of selfies from Ms. Hayek helped advance the auction by tens of thousands of dollars. In the end, the event raised close to $3 million for Girl Effect, It’s On Us and the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
“A round of applause for Gayle King, who has to wake up in 30 minutes,” Ms. Perry joked in closing remarks.
“I did take a beta blocker,” Ms. Perry added, before introducing Raye, the British singer-songwriter, “but I think it’s wearing off.”
Raye, whose belting sound has been compared to Amy Winehouse and Adele, opened with a rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” and later performed her own song “Ice Cream Man,” a vulnerable recount of ᴀssault.
“It’s not too late to get deep, is it?” the singer asked the room, her voice wobbly. The remaining guests replied in unison: “No!”
A correction was made on Sept. 12, 2024:
An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the source of the proceeds from the Kering event. The $3 million came from both table sales and the auction, not just the auction.
