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ANAND JON
Indian-Born
Designer
Refashions Mata Hari
Story
By Roger Webster
Photos by Patrick McMullan
 ISIONARY
Indian-born designer Anand Jon, noted for his functional
luxury and modern exotica, had a fashion show in the space that will
become the Buddha Bar at New York’s Chelsea Market.
He
used exquisite Solstiss Bucol lace, double-sided satin silks, sexy
de-stressed lambskin leathers and opulent hand-worked embroidery to
create a collection inspired by the legendary courtesan and spy Mata
Hari.
Among
the notables on the runway were Miss Teen USA Vanessa Semrow,
sultry actress Summer Altice, Samantha Cole, hip-hop artists Vita
and Dani Stevenson, Grace Hightower, Patrick McMullan and his
son Liam McMullan, actor James Ginty, and Marasol
Thomas, whose husband Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas
admired from the front row.
Others
who piled into the show and the after party at nearby restaurant
TanDa were Jaid Barrymore, Sale and Casey Johnson, Marissa
and Cornelia Bregman.
Patty
Hearst’s
daughter Lydia Hearst stopped by on the arm of R. Couri
Hay, the event’s mastermind, as part of her 18th birthday
festivities.
She
wore a sexy ensemble that came straight from the runways of Anand
Jon’s triumphant show, which had occurred earlier in the evening.
Anand,
his sister Sanjana with her fiancé Richard Bernard,
his mother Shashai Abraham with her friend from India,
Parameshwar Godrej, and Vanessa Semrow, Miss Teen USA
accompanied them.
Also
Vanity Fair’s Kristina Stewart, Carmen D’Alessio,
Lilly and John Georgopoulos, Steve Kalcinides, Alice Judelson,
Frank Cilione, Colin Lively, Richard Torrenzano, decorators Lisa
Jackson and Catherine Aaron.
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