k.d. lang at hammer museum's "gala in the garden" event fundraiser

k.d. lang at Hammer Museum Gala Fundraiser


Miuccia Prada's Pedestal
Designer honored at Hammer Museum's "Gala in the Garden"
Monday, October 15, 2007

(LOS ANGELES) Miuccia Prada needs a good excuse to come to Los Angeles--and she got one by being honored at the Hammer Museum's annual "Gala in the Garden" Sunday night. The only member of the Prada team to accompany her was Verde Visconti, who flew in with her for the event. Miuccia was on the bill with Mike Kelley, who was given a tribute by John Waters. "John is my only celebrity friend--my only Hollywood friend--and he lives in Baltimore! So whenever I get one of these things, I have to drag him out,"Kelley laughed in response to Waters. Prada's tribute, meanwhile, came from perhaps the art world's best-known morphing fashionista, Cindy Sherman.

It was a chilly night in L.A., and much of the event was outdoors--cocktails on the museum's terrace, while dinner and the awards gala were set in an atrium garden--but the predicted rain never fell, thank goodness, so Mrs. Prada, who declined to give interviews at the event, didn't have to get her blue and red checked voluminous skirt and black top (looking like items from the spring collection) wet. While Randolph Duke was showing at L.A. Fashion Week in Culver City, this was the fête with the heavy hitters: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Vanessa Getty, Diane Keaton, k.d. lang, Katherine Ross and Michael Govan, Benedict Taschen, Ann Philbin, Alejandro González Iñárritu much of the cast of Showtime's The L Word, and Gregory Parkinson were all at the event, better dressed than any fashion week crowd could ever aspire to be. And apparently they dress this well always--Lauren Hutton, in a man's blazer and black leather leggings, was overheard asking Dana Delaney, "Is there a dress code for this event?"





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