After taping her appearance on Good Morning America yesterday, Isla attended a cocktail party for the opening of a collaborative exhibition project between Catherine Martin and Miuccia Prada of Gatsby themed dresses. Isla looked super chic in a little dress by Prada, and posed at the party with Catherine Martin, Baz Luhrmann, Katy Perry, Jennifer Meyer and Carey Mulligan. The first HQ photos from the party can be seen in our Gallery, and there are more pics to come in the next few days. Scroll on down this post for an article about the party.
It is the world premiere of The Great Gatsby in New York City tonight – so exciting! Isla is scheduled to attended, so we will bring you full coverage right here tomorrow đ
• Catherine Martin And Miuccia Prada Dress Gatsby Opening Cocktail Party x8





Prada Your World – The Great Gatsby Celebration Begins at the SoHo Boutique
Let the Gatsby begin. At the kick-off event for a week of champagne-soaked celebrations for Baz Luhrmannâs new film, the director found himself at Pradaâs SoHo store, hands on hips, amid flapper-era frippery. âMiuccia does the odd good thing every once in a while,â he joked in what was surely the understatement of the evening. Because, as anyone knows by now with Baz, no visual gesture is too grand. Enter Miuccia Prada, Luhrmannâs friend since a cameo collaboration on 1996âs Romeo + Juliet, and her cadre of drop-waisted, fringed, pailletted, rhinestone-encrusted costumes culled from her archives and tweaked for Luhrmannâs retool of F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs classic. âWhat interested me most about the collaboration was that here were two incredibly creative people who both used references from the past, but in completely different ways,â Catherine Martin, Luhrmannâs wife, costume designer, and co-visionary, confided: âWith Baz, more literally, because heâs trying to tell a story, and with Miuccia, itâs more of an oblique, lateral perspective on how that happens.â She paused, eyes scanning the installation that will ultimately travel to Prada epicenters worldwide. âOne of Bazâs first tenets to me was, âI do not want a nostalgic, sepia-toned New York. I want it to feel as visceral and modern and as exciting as it would have felt to Scott Fitzgerald. I want the clothes to feel unexpected.â â
As per anything Prada, the evening itself was delightfully unpredictable. Guests wended their way through a sloping display steeper than, say, the stock market drop in â29 (those spindly, sculptural heels didnât help). Then suddenly, a coterie of faces known to the fashion set by their first names: Katy, Florence, Alexa, Shala, Hanneli, Harley, and Anya appeared. âWhat does Gatsby make me think of?â Katy Perry, in a floral-print Prada frock, pondered. âGasping! It makes me think of gasping. Like,ââsharp intake of breathââthat seems so twenties! Personally, I go for more of a forties vibe, but I prefer anything that Baz does.â Now wedged between a crush of onlookers, Perry gestured towards Florence Welch, channeling the seventies in a wide-brimmed black hat and pantsuit. âSheâs my spokesperson,â Perry teased, turning away to take a picture with improbably Prada-clad children. Welch laughed, eyeing what had become the chicest of mosh pits. âBeing lost in a throng of noise and lightsâthis entire environment sums up that Gatsby feeling pretty wellâjust look around. Look around!â
If one took Welchâs advice, one would have seenâor rather, attempted to seeâMiuccia herself, head barely bobbing above the tangle of flashbulbs and iPhone-wielding guests, generating the kind of hysteria usually reserved for that other revered Italian icon: the Pope. But perhaps Shala Monroque summed up the appeal most succinctly: âSheâs a great mind, and itâs a great story. They just go together.â