Elodie, Johan, and Lulu at Edi and the Wolf

ELODIE BOUCHEZ. PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH HYMAN/BFANYC.COM



Last night at the Alphabet City Austrian joint Edi & the Wolf, Club Monaco and Dazed & Confused gathered an impressive roster of friends to celebrate their new collaboration. French stylist Aleksandra Woroniecki and Club Monaco's Caroline Belhumeur hosted the dinner, which drew notables including Trish Goff, Rachel Chandler, Laure Heriard Dubreuil, Nate Lowman, Carlos Quirarte, Lulu Gainsbourg, Tom Guinness, and many more. Model Abbey Lee Kershaw even delighted guests by sitting in on a surprise acoustic performance by her boyfriend Matthew Hutchinson's band, Our Mountain.

Between sips of sparkling rosé and, later, bites of wiener schnitzel, we chatted with Lulu Gainsbourg, who was discussing his mother Bambou's recent foot injury with a friend—he had a dinner in Paris later in the month that, he joked, he'd have to carry Bambou into. "The closest person in the world, for life, is my mom. I wish the same relationship I have with my mom to everyone," Gainsbourg said. He, of course, is quite a family man: he's putting out a tribute album with a team of gifted collaborators in France in November, in honor of the 20th anniversary of his father's death. When we asked about the pendant he was wearing, the answer was familial, too: "The heart is a sapphire, and my mom gave it to me on my 24th birthday. A lot of people think that it's my dad's, because he had the same one—but my mom told me that this one's actually bigger," he said, laughing. "And the chain is from my dad."

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Actress Elodie Bouchez was in from France, as well; she made an appearance earlier in the week at the fashion brand Co's presentation of its new spring/summer 2012 video, which was directed by her boyfriend of 12 years, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter; Bouchez stars in the film. "I don't go to shows; I'm just enjoying New York," Bouchez, who next heads back to France to film a feature by Mélanie Delloye. "I've been shopping!"

Is there anywhere in New York she always makes a point of going? "Yeah—his store!" Bouchez replied, gesturing to Johan Lindeberg, who was standing nearby.

Lindeberg, too, said he was taking Fashion Week easy. "I'm not going to any shows. The only one I like to go to sometimes is Maria Cornejo, because I love her, she's a friend. Or Cynthia Rowley. I stay in my own world. I like it."

After the success of BLK DNM, we were curious as to what Lindeberg's doing next; his answer surprised us. "I'm doing a perfume that I'm launching in mid-October and developing in France. It's going to be called Perfume 11," he said. "I don't think there's any advantage to being a hundred years old—we want to be a brand of today. This year, there's been shootings in Norway, riots in England, revolutions in the Middle East, earthquakes in New York and Japan, catastrophe, the whole financial equation. It's been a really emotional year, and that's why I wanted to call it Perfume 11."

We nodded. "I like to create new things. I like to create a brand of this era, with new values," Lindeberg continued—which, for those who know his work, doesn't come as much of a surprise.

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