Lifestyle | Fashion “No one walks like Naomi,” the Director of the V&A Tristram Hunt bellowed into a microphone to the well plucked and polished masses, all pinned inside the museum’s John Madejski Garden to celebrate the supermodel. On Wednesday evening, at the museum’s annual summer party, Naomi Campbell was the main event. Her retrospective exhibition opened in conjunction with the do, and such the usually starry bash was on sequined steroids.
There was Kate Moss , in an ivory slip and tuxedo jacket, cuddling up to Daphne Guinness , who committed in a full–mirrored catsuit complete with lashings of sparkling accessories and Avatar-blue eyeshadow. Boxer Anthony Joshua turned out in support, as did actor Jodie Turner-Smith. The ever-elusive fashion designer Phoebe Philo ducked away from cameras, while Burberry’s creative director Daniel Lee and Alexander McQueen’s former head Sarah Burton both congratulated Campbell.
Ex Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful was later personally thanked by Campbell for his help in curating the show, titled NAOMI: In Fashion. Elizabeth Hurley, who earlier that day could have been found at Ascot’s Royal Enclosure , swapped out her daytime lace frock for a plunging, printed Roberto Cavalli gown, as she joined her son Damian Hurley at the party. He was a vision in white tailoring, staying obediently by his mother’s side.
As for less expected partnerships, Grace Jones took home the prize when she was spotted arm-in-arm.