Stefano Tonchi

Last night Salvatore Ferragamo premiered the full-length version of their 30 minute short film, Walking Stories, directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and starring Kaya Scodelario. The brand had previously been releasing the film in segments on their website. The flick follows the adventures of a Ferragamo-clad heroine as she makes her way through Florence, Los Angeles, and Shanghai, and stars other up-and-coming actors like Nathalie Buscombe, Lee Roy Kunz, and Billy Magnussen alongside the iconic Lauren Hutton.

Giancarlo Giammetti week continues…Last night Soho’s not-yet-open Sant Ambroeus hosted a cocktail party with W and Stefano Tonchi to celebrate Giammetti’s new book, Private: Giancarlo Giammetti and some major names came down to pay homage to him. Hugh Jackman, Giovanna Battaglia, Olivier Theyskens, Constance Jablonski, Hamish Bowles all showed up to enjoy the jams of Marjorie Gublemann aka DJ Mad Marj.

Kicking off her hosting duties at the American Magazine Media Conference, Diane von Furstenberg admitted that she’d been out very late last night along with her panel of all-star EICs, although none of them even hinted at a touch of fatigue. The early morning conference was a refresher course on how successful fashion glossies achieved newsstand success and how they aim to maintain that position. Every corner of the fashion media spectrum was covered as DvF picked the brains of Teen Vogue’s Amy Astley, Harper’s Bazaar’s Glenda Bailey, InStyle’s Ariel Foxman, ELLE’s Robbie Myers, and W Magazine’s Stefano Tonchi.

Stefano Tonchi weighed in from the front row on the direction of fashion for Spring ’14 and beyond. Behold, trend predictions from W’s main man! “I think everything that is preppy is over. I would say preppy is done, in a certain way. A European rock-and-roll look— a little bit dirty, a little bit French, not put together—is in.

Last night the fashion set braved the rain for Clinique’s Dramatically Different party at 620 Rockefeller’s rooftop in celebration of the beauty brands remake of their iconic yellow moisturizer. The product has been reformulated by dermatologists 45 years after its initial launch. Who braved the rain for the bash? Well, Anna Wintour for starters. You know its a true fashion fête when even Anna deigns to grace it with her presence.

It ain’t easy putting out a fashion magazine for the richest people on the planet, but if anyone knows how, it’s Stefano Tonchi. His super-luxe readership loves what he’s doing, and if you’re honest with yourself, you know you do, too. He invited us up to his art-filled aerie to talk twins, reinvention, and the importance of aspiration.
BY CHRISTOPHER TENNANT