May 17, 2012  11:47 am

Sally Sohn makes exquisite (and exquisitely expensive) one-of-a-kind jewelry by finding rare heirlooms at auctions in every corner of the globe, then refurbishing them with precious stones and metal. The results of her work are delicate, whimsical pieces encrusted with pearls and diamonds, sold at retailers including Bergdorf Goodman, Ikram, and Lane Crawford.

Recently, Sohn led a group of friends and colleagues (Gilt Groupe vice president Leah Park, video director Cycy Sanders, model agent Agel Raya, photographer Jasper Rischen, and casting director Roger Inniss) on an excursion through her native country of South Korea (she grew up in Seoul). They explored labyrinthine Buddhist temples, the seascape in Busan, local marketplaces, cuisine, and, of course, the zany nightlife in Seoul. Photographer Pieter Henket took snapshots of the ten-day-long trip, which Sohn shares here exclusively with Style.com.

“The beautiful seaside in Busan, and a crazy-in-love couple enjoying the view.”

“While catching some rays, Cycy, Pieter, and Agel were inspired to strip down for the camera.”

“On a karaoke party bus. That’s me with the mic and Jasper Rischen.”

“A group shot of everyone after seeing a Buddhist dance.”

“We signed a roof tile, which is a customary way of making a wish, at the Temple Boolkook. What did mine say? ‘I wish for dance parties all over the world!’ ”

“A little Korean boy smiles for the camera”

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Blair seems to be getting her groove back pictured wearing a cool blue tweed coat by Dries Van Noten and pairing it with tangerine Brian Atwood Maniac Pumps. We like how her coat is classically tied at the waist. Blair finished her outfit with a pair of lace stockings and some oversized statement shades.

Here Blair is pictured wearing another trench coat. This one is cream colored and falls at the knees. Blair teamed her trench with a pair of nude Sergio Rossi peep toe pumps and a mustard color Louis Vuitton Monogram Fascination Lockit handbag.

Serena is looking pretty city chic, wearing a luxe Theodora Callum orange multi diamond scarf and Repetto Zizi oxford flats. Her oversized scarf is going on our must have list for sure. Serena is carrying a woven Jimmy Choo shoulder bag with a Marc by Marc Jacobs Dreamy logo laptop case (another serious most wanted item). Serena may have been consumed with being Gossip Girl, but it looks like things could be turning around for her soon.

Blair is looking super sexy in this Herve Leger Joanne bandage dress, while scheming with Chuck once again. Blair teamed her dress with a shiny metallic Louis Vuitton handbag and a pair of nude Sergio Rossi Peep Toe slingback pumps.

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May 11, 2012  4:19 pm

It’s been a boom week for art in New York, between Frieze, the auctions, and a spate of openings, and it shows no signs of ending quietly. Last night, Jerusalem-born artist Roy Nachum unveiled an exhibition at New York’s Joseph Nahmad Contemporary gallery that was, quite literally, an eye opener. In part, that was courtesy of the big-name guests who had turned out for the occasion. The crush of flashbulbs that followed every step of his longtime friend and collaborator Justin Timberlake (Nachum did the interiors for Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality restaurant) and Russell Simmons’ every smiling exchange with models were blinding experiences.

Exploration of vision and perception, however, were exactly what Nachum had in mind for the project. “I wanted to look at blindness and different ways of seeing things,” said the artist of his new exhibit, Open Your Eyes. Large-scale paintings inspired by color blindness tests and Braille messages floated above an installation piece of a sea of 1,800 golden crowns in the center of the room, each sold to benefit the Lighthouse Foundation. “There’s a kind of metaphorical blindness that comes from taking the world for granted.”

So hectic was the scene that Paz de la Huerta nearly slipped through unnoticed. She revealed that she, too, has been looking at things differently—by taking her place behind the camera, rather than in front of it. “I directed my own version of The Red Shoes, which I’m also starring in,” she said. “It’s part of a series of films I’ve been working on since I was 16.” A bigger surprise, though, is that, unlike with many of her other roles, she plans to remain clothed. “I always have to do what’s unexpected,” she quipped, “so I think next I should play a nun.”

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Tonight, Lincoln Center will once again be filled with stars and socialites dressed to the hilt as the New York City Ballet opens its spring season. But true fashion lovers should look not to the plaza but to the stage for the most exciting designs. In an usually fashion-focused gala, the Rodarte sisters have created the costumes for Benjamin Millepied’s new premiere and Gilles Mendel has supplied the designs for Peter Martins’s latest work. And in perhaps the most significant move, the classic costumes for Balanchine’s “Symphony in C” have been revamped with crystals by Swarovski.

Erin Baiano for The New York TimesCostume sketches for the new costumes for New York City Ballet’s “Symphony in C” by Marc Happel in collaboration with Swarovski.

First created in 1950 by famed City Ballet designer Barbara Karinska, known simply as Karinska, the famous white and black costumes have shown off the dancing of such greats as Patricia McBride and Edward Villella, Suzanne Farrell and Mr. Martins himself, Darci Kistler and Jock Soto, and many others. This year, Mr. Martins asked the designer Marc Happel to start over. His only condition, according to Mr. Happel, was that he wanted a more modern, yet still timeless look.

Paul Kolnik/New York City BalletMegan Fairchild and Benjamin Millepied in the New York City Ballet production of “Symphony in C.”

“I was very nervous,” Mr. Happel said recently at City Ballet’s costume shop, “because you’re following in the footsteps of a famous designer.” He spent more than a year on the designs — agreeing to keep the black and white palette in homage to both Karinska and Balanchine — and he said he took inspiration for the geometry of the crystals on the tutus from a Dior dress, known as Junon, which features a skirt made of petals with the crystals changing in gradation from pale to dark at the edges.

Mr. Happel made other changes, too. The original “Symphony in C” costumes were the first to feature the powder puff tutu, a softer, less severe tutu and very different from what was previously seen in Russia. For this version, the tutus have 14 layers, which are scalloped, giving it an even lighter look.

A touch of blue is another new element that Mr. Happel introduced. “I remember when I saw it, the scrim in the back is a beautiful blue, so we decided with the crystals on the tutus we’d use a little blue.” Hundreds of thousands of crystals were used in the making of the more than 40 tutus and costumes for the men. New headpieces were also created by Robert Sorrell and the earrings are by a former City Ballet dancer, Jamie Wolf.

Like so much in ballet, what appears on stage masks all the hard work that goes on underneath the surface and the process for getting those crystal patterns on the tutus was no easy feat. Mr. Happel first created a prototype of the pattern with each crystal set by hand. These were then sent to a company in Rhode Island, which created a computer generated version of the pattern to be sent to Austria. There the individual plates were built, and the layer of pattern was then transferred by heat onto the individual tutu skirt. Mr. Happel hopes all his hard work will have a lasting effect. “These will now take on a life of their own at City Ballet,” he said, “and they will be what we think of as ‘Symphony in C.’”

New York City Ballet’s season runs through June 10.

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The film tells the tale of an international flotilla of military ships at sea together for naval war exercises that suddenly encounter an alien fleet, one that attacks without warning. Rihanna plays an American naval petty officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, in the film directed by Peter Berg. He marshaled his acting troops into downtown Los Angeles for the massive premiere and after party at the Nokia Theatre, where screaming fans packed bleachers and hoped for a moment with Rihanna or her co-stars. Those included Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Decker, Hamish Linklater, Tadanobu Asano, Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch, who commented earlier about accepting the leading-man role in the film.

“Pete Berg, he’s the sole reason why I took it on,” Kitsch said. “We go back to the “Friday Night Lights” days together,” the television show that Berg produced and that launched Kitsch’s career. The actor admitted that for a moment, neither one of them was sure they should test their relationship with such a massive cinematic project.

“We have an incredible friendship,” Kitsch explained. “So that was a huge thing, are we willing to sacrifice that, or put that up and go to work? But we’re both very demanding of ourselves, and on set we’re demanding of each other. And that made it better because the trust is there.”

Connie Britton, another friend from the “Friday Night Lights” years, joined the guys for the premiere and after party, which included Malin Akerman, Apollo Ohno, Crystal Allen, Kristin Bauer van Straten and Molly Sims.

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May 10, 2012  8:33 am

To bedazzle or not to bedazzle: That’s the question for Fall, with designers building bling directly into their clothes. Oscar de la Renta showed trompe l’oeil bijoux, printing photos of precious stones on his cocktail dresses, while Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz and Miuccia Prada encrusted their respective looks with luxe crystals—some of which made their red-carpet debuts at this week’s Met gala. ANDAM nominee Vika Gazinskaya, for her part, gave the look a daytime spin with the novelty sweatshirt she sported in the Tuileries. The best part of these bedecked numbers? While still pricey, they’ll make a significantly smaller dent in your wallet than real-deal platinum and diamonds.

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“Can I touch it?” I asked.

“Sure, go ahead,” Ms. Stone said without hesitation.

I squeezed the plastic hem.

“It’s rainproof,” Mr. Elbaz said, unnecessarily.

Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesEmma Stone Alber Elbaz.

Everyone was tucked into his or her seat at the long dining tables. There was little elbow room — it was almost economy-class seating —m and I wondered where the women with trains had stowed them. They would surely have to sit with their feet planted in several yards of tulle or feathers. Some of the trains were so wide and stiff that during the crowded cocktail period you had to work up a plan of retreat if blocked by one. Crossing these hedges was not an option.

Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesCate Blanchett in Alexander McQueen.

The clothes were not more elaborate this year, but the Surrealist spirit of the Schiaparelli-Prada exhibition had seemingly encouraged a great deal more sequins, beads, embroidery and shapes verging to sculpture. Here and there, in dark suits, were the tall spikes of athletes, and the thin sliver of Cate Blanchett in a black feathered McQueen dress, with tiny, elongating pencil lines at the corners of her eyes. Once or twice the actress contently patted her flat tummy, and then headed toward dinner with the sureness of a woman whose dress or Spanx will never be in her way.

A number of women — Miuccia Prada, Stella McCartney, Phyllis Posnick of Vogue — wore pants. This was a nice change. But for sheer comfort and ventilation, there was Marc Jacobs’s black lace shirt dress (Comme des Garçons), worn with white boxers and his own pilgrim-buckle shoes.

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