With his recently launched eponymous vodka to promote, not to mention his numerous clothing, home, and fragrance lines to sell, Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has been an especially busy party host as of late. (He could also be celebrating the fact that he hasn't yet had to serve a 14-month jail sentence for tax evasion, delivered from a court in Florence in March.) Here's a sampling of his events in the busy month of May.Photos: John Sciulli/Wireimage (L.A.), Heidi Brill (Chicago)
Posted 08.17.06
Posted 08.17.06
The designer's young, urban clothing line, Just Cavalli, was the product-du-jour on May 3 when Teen Vogue cohosted a crowd of twentysomething actors, designers, and reality stars. Cavalli's signature "Bora Bora" zebra print was splashed on benches and pillows and draped throughout the Manor.
Animal-print-covered lounges and white leather martini bars filled West Loop Studio for the launch of Roberto Cavalli Vodka in Chicago. Produced by XA, the Experiential Agency, the May 8 event hosted approximately 250 guests who sipped lychee martinis and mingled amid cocktail tables decorated with bottles of the vodka and strewn with Swarovski crystals.
Cavalli headed to sunny Los Angeles on May 11 to launch his vodka at a private mansion in Holmby Hills. J. Ben Bourgeois Productions and the Patton Group furnished a V.I.P. area with geometric white banquettes and plexiglass boxes illuminated from inside with LED lighting.
Cavalli's wife, Eva, joined her husband to cohost Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Vegas-style fund-raiser in New York on May 17. The Cavallis turned Sotheby's seventh-floor auction space into an opulent dining room, with signature fabrics from the fall/winter 2006 collection.
