Entirely Dresses

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You’d think the long haul out to Brooklyn, in the rain no less, would have dampened the fashion set’s enthusiasm for Thursday night’s Prospect Park Summer Soiree. But as host and junior committee chair Sally Singer pointed out, a hefty piece of that set is local now. “It used to be that people thought they couldn’t live in Brooklyn because they wouldn’t get messengers. But since we started doing this party five years ago, the number of editors, contributors, models, and fashion designers that are here—I mean, ‘quadrupled’ would be to sell it short,” the Vogue editor said. She ticked off a list of colleagues—Kathryn Neale Shaffer, Chris Knutsen, Valerie Steiker, for starters—to prove her point. Held in the park’s two-story boathouse, the fundraiser had a thirties dance hall theme (there were rompers, feather headbands, and even a turban) and music by Chris Taylor of Williamsburg indie band Grizzly Bear. In the silent-auction area, Philip Crangi was eyeing a signed copy of Mark Borthwick’s Not in Fashion. What, the Manhattanite wasn’t tempted to bid on an evening of ten-pin at Brooklyn Bowl? “I’m not really an athlete,” Crangi sighed. “I’m a card player, and I tan as a sport. It’s a lot of effort to throw that heavy ball.” On the tented terrace, Cobble Hill resident Maria Cornejo was kibitzing with MObama fashion adviser Ikram Goldman and looking totally at ease in black wellies. “The quality of life is much better here than in Manhattan,” the Chilean-born designer told us. “I like to ride my bike to Red Hook and sit by the water. Actually, one of the prints I did for my Resort collection was from a photo I took there, of the sunset. It looks very glam, but it’s Red Hook.”—Darrell Hartman—
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