AT ITS HEADQUARTERS in London last week, Net-a-Porter toasted the latest addition to its e-commerce empire—the Net Set, the retailer’s new social-media shopping app. The launch party included a Steve Jobs-style presentation of the Instagram-like shopping tool from the Net-a-Porter Group’s founder and executive chairman, Natalie Massenet (who was also celebrating her 50th birthday) and a live performance by a gospel choir. Trendsetting London gals such as Poppy Delevingne and Laura Bailey enjoyed tacos and margaritas with designers Christopher Kane, Roland Mouret and Alice Temperley. “It’s the perfect thing for any nosy fashion person,” said Ms. Delevingne of the Net Set app, which allows women to view profiles of prominent style-setters detailing their favorite fashion pieces.
In New York, another big name in fashion had reason to celebrate. The New School’s 67th annual Parsons Fashion Benefit, a runway show and dinner that raises scholarship funds for the design college, feted the class of 2015. The seniors presented their collections in the Javits Center to a crowd of over 900 guests including Anna Wintour, Donna Karan and new Saks Fifth Avenue president Marc Metrick.
The gala also honored LVMH and Marc Jacobs, a Parsons alumnus, who showed his graduate collection at the same gala 31 years ago. “I worked during school, after school, on weekends, and when I wasn’t doing that, I was buying art supplies,” said Mr. Jacobs of his student days. When 28-year-old designer Wes Gordon, in a Tom Ford tux, was asked if he had any advice for this year’s seniors, he responded with a smile: “Um, law school?”
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