Source: John Currin, Rachel Feinstein, and Marina Abramović
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Rachel Chandler Guinness
White Glove Gone Wild - Rachel Chandler Guinness
Source: Rachel Chandler Guinness
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - SofÃa Sanchez Barrenechea
White Glove Gone Wild - SofÃa Sanchez Barrenechea
Source: SofÃa Sanchez Barrenechea
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - The White gloves
White Glove Gone Wild - The White gloves
Source: The White gloves
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Jessica Joffe
White Glove Gone Wild - Jessica Joffe
Source: Jessica Joffe
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Wangechi Mutu tattoo
White Glove Gone Wild - Wangechi Mutu tattoo
Source: Wangechi Mutu temporary tattoo
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Cindy Sherman
White Glove Gone Wild - Cindy Sherman
Source: Cindy Sherman
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Marilyn Minter
White Glove Gone Wild - Marilyn Minter
Source: Marilyn Minter
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Zani Gugelmann
White Glove Gone Wild - Zani Gugelmann
Source: Zani Gugelmann
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Reinaldo and Dita
White Glove Gone Wild - Reinaldo and Dita
Source: Reinaldo Herrera and Dita Von Teese
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Thelma Golden
White Glove Gone Wild - Thelma Golden
Source: Thelma Golden
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Carolina and Bob
White Glove Gone Wild - Carolina and Bob
Source: Carolina Herrera and Bob Colacello
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Jeffrey Deitch
White Glove Gone Wild - Jeffrey Deitch
Source: Jeffrey Deitch
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Duffy, Aaron, and Lucy
White Glove Gone Wild - Duffy, Aaron, and Lucy
Source: Duffy, Aaron Young, and Lucy Chadwick
White Glove Gone Wild
White Glove Gone Wild - Fabiola and Allison
White Glove Gone Wild - Fabiola and Allison
Source: Fabiola Beracasa and Allison Sarofim
Despite the pre-spring temperatures, almost everyone attending the Art Production Fund’s annual gala was wearing gloves. After all, the theme of the evening, held at a tony private club on Upper Park Avenue.
Despite the pre-spring temperatures, almost everyone attending the Art Production Fund’s annual gala was wearing gloves. After all, the theme of the evening, held at a tony private club on Upper Park Avenue, was White Glove Gone Wild and there is nothing like an art crowd to heed a theme. Cindy Sherman paired her fuchsia evening gown with an elbow-length black leather fingerless variety while APF cofounder Yvonne Force Villareal wore a graphic black-and-white arm-length pair that matched her halter-neck Carolina Herrera frock.
Mrs. Herrera, along with Linda Yablonsky, were honorees for the evening, so flowing Herrera frocks were as plentiful as gloved fingers. Dianna Agron, Dita Von Teese, and Emmy Rossum were guests of Mrs. Herrera, Von Teese was right at home with the glove theme, donning the black leather pair that is a steady staple of her wardrobe.
Karlie Kloss wore a tea green silk Herrera dress and caught up with La Marque’s Valerie Boster. On the second floor of the Neo-Georgian building artist Vanessa Beecroft staged a performance piece with models, who in a derivation from her typical style, were fully clothed. A very ladylike, grown-up performance perfectly suited for the grand drawing room it was staged in.
During dinner, Beecroft confessed that she had a frantic time finding the costumes, combining some recycled from previous performances and others purchased last-minute on Hollywood Boulevard before heading to New York. No photographs were allowed and when Amy Phelan pulled out her iPhone to snap a clandestine photo, one of the model, Amy Sacco, also an APF board member; broke character to chastise her.
Downstairs Marilyn Minter was taking portraits of guests, positioning a glass parition between lens and subject and then continually spraying and squeegeeing it with water; Bill Bratton would not have been happy. Lauren du Pont sat in front of the camera and dutifully followed Minter’s instructions to put her ruby ring in her mouth and make a jeweled pout (Jamie Tisch was asked to chomp on her freshwater pearls).
In another corner of the first floor, people applied temporary tattoos designed by Wangechi Mutu. MaxMara’s Maria Giulia Maramotti, who applied one on her forearm, said happily, “I wish they were permanent!” Villareal came over to thank and congratulate Beecroft on her performance, “It was so moving, it was transcendent.” Beecroft nodded gratefully before returning to her shredded fennel salad. “Yvonne, you belong in this place, you look perfect!” said Tara Subkoff who was seated with Beecroft. Villareal smiled, indeed, the whole evening was perfect.