From left: Alix Earle and Brooke Shields.
On Saturday night, New York and Bvlgari hosted a dinner in Sag Harbor to celebrate the artists photographed by Martin Schoeller for our inaugural “Hamptons Issue.” The light was particularly lovely at the Church (Eric Fishl and April Gornik’s art space) as guests — including Brooke Shields, Alix and Ashtin Earle, Derek Blasberg, Sarah Ramos, and contributors Candace Bushnell and Rob Franklin — mingled alongside artists such as Joan Semmel, Stanley Whitney, Marina Adams, Peter Schlesinger, Joe Bradley, and Valentina Akerman.
Apologies to the restaurants of the Hamptons, but dinner, courtesy of the Chinatown restaurant Bridges, was likely the best thing being served out east that weekend. It featured chefs Sam Lawrence and Nicolas Mouchel’s cult Comté tart, roasted peppers with anchovy, and grilled ribeye. Laila Gohar of Gohar Wold designed a 20-foot oyster-bar installation for the first course in the venue’s garden and centerpieces from repurposed oyster shells for dinner.
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“We had a lot of fun, exploring and exposing the realities and psychologies of the Hamptons in this issue. It really was, as we said on the cover, a dispatch from the most expensive potato fields on Earth,” editor-in-chief David Haskell said in a toast. But, he added, “we knew from the beginning that the issue would want to anchor itself in the community of artists of the Hamptons, because they — many of you — really are the emotional heart of this place.”
From left: Alix and Ashtin Earle.
From left: Eric Fischl, Joan Semmel, Kim Heirston.
Derek Blasberg and Alix Earle.
Sarah Ramos.
Brooke Shields.
From left: Joe Bradley, Esteban Arboleda, and Valentina Akerman.
Candace Bushnell.
Stanley Whitney.
Brooke Shields, New York editor-in-chief David Haskell, and Peter Schlesinger.
Jim Bankoff and April Gornik.
Sam Lawrence.
From left: Marina Adams and Robin Brown.
Dr. Georgette Grier-Key.
