SUPER MARKET
“The early bird gets the Tuleh,” said Helen Schifter, who arrived at noon to scoop up a handful of frilly numbers and beat the ferris wheel line at “Super Saturday,” a kids’ carnival and Moroccan-style souk stocked high with discounted designer clothing.
Schifter and the other hungry shoppers who visited the fairground at Nova’s Ark Project in Water Mill raised $830,000 for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
“Everything vintage, one dollar,” Donna Karan announced from her booth. The folks at LVMH, which owns a majority stake in her business, needn’t be alarmed: Karan was simply selling the thrift-store stuff she accumulated all over the world this year for inspiration. “I’ve got no storage space left,” she explained.
Shoshanna Lonstein, who manned her own booth, laughed at the shoppers’ sample-sale attack approach.
“One woman stripped down to her underwear for 10 minutes,” she marveled. “Right behind me.”
Later that night, Chanel threw a party at Villa Maria in Water Mill for Group for the South Fork, which included a treat for attendant Chanel fans like Nina Griscom, Tory Burch and Sloan Barnett: an exact recreation of the house’s 2001 fall show.
“I should have added another ticket to the roster,” said co-host Marjorie Gubelmann, joking about the number of men in the crowd. “$10,000 for a backstage seat with the models.”
Over in Southampton, “Dinner with Friends” stars Andie MacDowell and Dennis Quaid celebrated their premiere with a dinner party at Club Colette. As several younger guests streamed in from the dance party that the Chanel show had morphed into, Kathy Hilton and Cecile Zilkha craned their necks but didn’t find who they were scouting.
“We’re here, and our daughters are still there,” Zilkha laughed.