Roberto Cavalli’s 40th Anniversary Party

After 40 years in fashion, Roberto Cavalli’s designs have become synonymous with decadence and the daring, and last night the Florence-born designer was honoured with a star-studded party, which saw some of the industry’s best loved models and music stars rocking his designs.

Kylie Minogue performed, the walls were lined with Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott’s images of models in Cavalli, and Heidi Klum introduced the designer as a four-tier, 10-foot birthday cake covered in sparklers was wheeled onto the stage. But even through all that, Cavalli, almost 70, admitted he’s not the party animal he used to be: “Don’t say it, don’t say it, please, because the people should still dream with me,” he said. “The young should think that, instead of sparkling water, I drink Krug, or that I still smoke 10 Cuban cigars every day.”