Autumn Dinner

Tonight, we hosted a very intimate dinner, at one of our favorite restaurants in NYC, in honor of our friends, the always regal and intellectual Princess Alessandra Borghese and iconic german Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. The Waverly Inn, in the West Village, couldn't be a better place to celebrate Autumn in NYC, with it's old charm, the big fire place, the cozy atmosphere, the always fashionable crowd (spotted at other tables were Monica Lewinski, fashion designer Haider Ackermann, and Miramax founder, Harvey Weinstein).
The list of friends who joined us to welcome back Alessandra and Gloria to NYC, was a fun mix of notable newyorkers: our Muse Olivia Chantecaille with her "very-GQ" hubby Ren Grady, BergdorfGoodman's Fashion Director Linda Fargo, author Pamela Fiori, the gorgeous Shirin von Wulffen (Mrs Frederik Fekkai), Andrew Saffir ( founder of Cinema Society) and Daniel Benedict, W's Giovanna Battaglia with her cute sister Sara, Reza Raein with Patricia Suarez de Sola, Vogue's Hamish Bowels, and Vanity Fair's James Reginato who stopped by for drinks and to kiss Gloria and Alessandra.
Princess Gloria (aka "Gloria TNT") is not new to NYC, of course: In the 1980s she became a true, unwilling Fashion Icon, for her pure german blue blood lineage, the "HSH" (Her Serene Highness) title by marriage to Prince Johannes, and the innate revolutionary sense of style and passion for contemporary art, of which she is today a savvy collector.
Alessandra ("Donna Alessandra, dei Principi Borghese") is not only one the most media-exposed and outspoken representatives of Rome's "black aristocracy" (the few princely families loyal to the Pope), but a brilliant journalist and a best-selling author: Her latest book, "La Padrona", is about to be published in Italy and already making the lines!
The dinner went by in a very festive mood, like an old friends' reunion; and there is nothing more rewarding than connecting new friends to old ones, and see them all enjoying a fun evening together.
Thank you, Gloria and Alessandra: you gave us all an elegant fresh breath of air with your (regal) presence! Ciao!