PHOTO BY JAN MELKA

It was a gathering of the well-heeled at Jean Cocteau's entresol flat on rue de Montpensier overlooking Paris's Palais Royal gardens last night where Jimmy Choo and Jane Cattani threw a party to celebrate its new 24:7 collection.  Launched last fall, 24:7 features a best-of selection of about 30 Choo styles including the brand's famous Gladiator stilettos, in new colors and finishes that's recently hit the stores. Cocteau, the French poet, novelist, designer and filmmaker lived in the apartment from the early 40s which is when he made his film classic  "La Belle et la Bête," starring his lover Jean Marais, until his death in 1963.  And it is very much his place, from the muscle-bound gods imbedded in the walls to the trompe l'oeil drawings by artist Pierre Le-Tan covering the narrow staircase.  Choo wanted to highlight its French side," said Cattani and  that it did with naughty couturier Alexis Mabille on hand with his muse Katell Le Bourhis,  design gallerist Clémence Krzentowsky, jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac and Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre whose book Fourrure is on the short list for France's Prix Goncourt. They all packed into Cocteau's jewel-like apartment sipping champagne and nibbling caviar on toast surrounded by shoe boxes-mountains of shoe boxes—and ladies oohing and ahhing saying, "Oh non, I can't go home without this pair."  As Cocteau once said "Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."