Inside Tiffany, Gatsby, Polo and Collette Dinnigan parties

FROM the polo in Broome to The Great Gatsby premiere, David Jones' birthday and Tiffany & Co's dinner, Melissa Hoyer inspects the A-list events of the week.  

Dessert

FROM the polo in Broome to The Great Gatsby premiere, David Jones' birthday and Tiffany & Co's dinner, Melissa Hoyer inspects the A-list events of the week.

Tiffany & Co Great Gatsby dinner

This really was the most glamorous, indulgent and simply elegant dinner the Australian social set has seen in a very long time.

When Tiffany & Co got together with Vogue magazine’s Edwina McCann to recreate a Gatsby-themed V-VIP dinner, where else would you choose to do it but within the magnificent surrounds of Neil Perry’s Rockpool Bar and Grill?

Decked with extra-ordinary flowers and a guest list that rivaled The Great Gatsby cast list, the attention to detail was totally flawless.

The Great Gatsby and Tiffany & Co. Dinner

Tiffany boss Glenn Schlehuber was joined by names like Baz Luhrmann, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki and Carey Mulligan while models cruised the room in Johanna Johnson and Collette Dinnigan gowns and heavenly Tiffany & Co jewels. The Gatsby-Tiffany gems feature heavily in the fanciful film and can be seen at the Sydney store from Monday.

The Voice's Ricky Martin said his two four-year-old twins were loving Australia so much, they had taken to pin-pointing on a map each time they come back. Bless them. And what a genuine, charming and good man Ricky is.

The Great Gatsby and Tiffany & Co. Dinner

Pinctada Cable Beach Polo tournament

Social media was working overtime in Broome with bikini-clad spectators and international visitors descending on Cable Beach for the VIP event hosted by Marilynne Paspaley of Paspaley Pearls. There was even an appearance by A-grade polo player and new squeeze to Demi Moore, Will Hanigan.

Will Hanigan

Even a flash storm that drenched players in the opening game didn’t dampen the mood,with the Veuve Clicquot flowing like the water in the famed Kimberley Horizontal Falls.

The sun returned for the International Beach Polo Match, which went down to the wire with Matt Welsh, captain of the Pinctada Cable Beach Australia team, clinching a 4-3 victory for the home side.

Cable Beach broome

The ‘best dressed’ winner took home some Paspaley pearls and Bunnamagoo 1827 Cab Sav. While Broome’s famed Roey pub, Matso’s, the Kool café, The Aarly, the Pinctada hotel and a string of famous pearl stores did a great weekend of business. It was good to see the Kimberley rocking.

David Jones 175th birthday cocktail party

David Jones marked its 175th birthday with a black tie party celebrating the milestone and launching a commemorative exhibition which brings to life the story of one of the oldest department stores in the world.

Over 350 guests were greeted by David Jones’ renowned doormen who led them down a dramatic black carpet before greeting David Jones CEO and Managing Director, Paul Zahra, Chairman Peter Mason AM and Brand Ambassador Megan Gale. 

David Jones 175th Anniversary

Guests like Jessica Gomes, Jason Dundas, Montana Cox, Emma Freedman, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, Delta Goodrem, Rachael Finch, Jesinta Campbell Collette Dinnigan, Kit Willow, Carla Zampatti, Dion Lee and Josh Goot and Skye Leckie sipped Charles Heidsieck champagne.

David Jones 175th Anniversary

Collette Dinnigan bridal collection

The Watson’s Bay Hotel has been around forever but the killer makeover it has just received will now make it one of the most desired beach clubs in Sydney. 

Bridal Show

Famed hotelier Fraser Short had designer Collette Dinnigan show a collection of exquisite bridal gowns to open his new Sunset Room.

With simple and chic interiors, 32 hotel rooms and an event space that has Peter Evans as culinary master we can;t wait to see this become a hot space.

Dessert

The Great Gatsby Australian premiere 

We all know it was an extravagant night but what you might not know is these behind the scenes facts:

Joel Edgerton

- 1,500 guests attended the star-studded premiere and after party

- Guests sipped through more than 700 magnums of Moët & Chandon equating to over 8,500 flutes

- Guests at the after party were treated to live theatre and pyrotechnics as flapper dancers brandishing flaming Moët magnums danced through the audience and on the bar

- An enormous 10m high tiered Moët & Chandon champagne glass tower made of champagne flutes and magnum bottles was at the centre of the opulent after party.