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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
New York
To the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue, natch, for the Costume Institute's annual ball at $3,500 smackers per person. My hostess, the great designer Carolina Herrera, has taken a table for ten, which if my arithmetic is correct, makes it a mere bagatelle of 35,000 greenbacks.
Mind you, it's all worth it. Never have I seen so many pretty girls in such a grand setting. The Met is a hell of a place for a party, with the Temple of Dandur set up as a disco, the great hall for cocktails, and the Petrie room for dining. (Or is it the other way round? I got too drunk too early to find out for sure.) The mood was 1960 White...
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