Mario Testino’s 60th Birthday Party in London — vogue.com

Mario Testino’s birthday dress code injunction to wear red, black, and white in evocation of Havana in the forties had the fashionable world in a tizzy. In one of the cozily elegant suites at the Chiltern Firehouse, where André Balazs was hosting the 60th birthday festivities, Kate Moss was dithering between a choice of seventeen dresses (she opted for scarlet dotted net over Stella McCartney’s leopard swimsuit). Meanwhile, across town, in her glamorous dressing room in Notting Hill, Stella McCartney herself was panicking that she hadn’t arranged a hairdresser to give her period-appropriate finger waves, and was improvising a high-couture turban with a length of silver lamé and what looked like a black show cap (the result, it has to be said, was spectacular, worn with the designer’s dramatic caped black gown).

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