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Believe it or not, these two cultural events have a robust intersection. At the center of this venn diagram is Teyana Taylor, an avid Knicks fan and certified Chanel girl who arrived at the dinner to pose for a photo—and for a sitting at Vanity Fair’s portrait studio with illustrator Pepe Muñoz—before swiftly departing to catch the game: “I might even take the train, girl,” she told me as she posed for Muñoz, “it’s really that serious.”
The Los Angeles-born New Yorker Molly Gordon, of The Bear and Oh, Hi! fame, wore a Knicks leather bomber jacket to sit alongside Owen Thiele and across from Whitney Peak, who will soon be seen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Further down that very same table was stylist Kate Young, who could not take her eyes away from the screen. Yes, dear reader, the Knicks game was playing at the Chanel dinner—fashion people contain multitudes!
For dessert, Chanel offered blue and orange cookies—in lieu of black and white ones—which were passed around alongside fabric napkins with embroidered Chanel interlocking Cs in the same hues. As co-hosts, De Niro and Rosenthal, alongside the brand, offered Knicks hats as part of the evening’s goodie bags.
Last night marked the soft return of the Tribeca Grill, which, owned by De Niro, was an icon of the downtown culinary scene before closing in March of last year after 35 years in business. In 2027, De Niro and Ira Drukier, alongside Chef Rich Torrisi and Major Food Group will bring a new restaurant to the storied destination.
The dinner celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel’s Tribeca Festival Artists Program, which for more than 20 years has brought together the film and art worlds by way of working with artists to donate original works to be presented to the festival’s winning filmmakers.
In that same spirit, VF worked with Muñoz to create artistic portraits in pencil, watercolor, and acrylic at the dinner. VF’s portrait studio was one of the key hangout spots of the evening: Ayo Edebiri took selfies with Peak and Elsesser, and Coppola and Louis-Dreyfus caught up while they waited for their turn to be drawn by Muñoz, who instructed these major stars in the art of a portrait sitting: “I’ve never seen this done at a party!” Coppola said.
Taylor joked that her pose in the illustration will always remind her excitement about the Knicks game. Cole Escola quipped that their waist should actually be much smaller than it was drawn, and Consani, Elsesser, and Yai, supermodels that they are, schooled all attendees in the art of holding a sickening pose—though De Niro, really, held his own.
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