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Balmain Had an Intimate Party at Saks

Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth Avenue

If you’re traveling to New York from Europe just for the weekend, you’ve got to make the most of your time. Maybe that’s why Oliver Rousteing brought his waist-cinched, shoulder-padded, very alluring “Balmain Army” with him when he touched down at Saks Fifth Avenue this past Friday night.

Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, was in town to host a private cocktail party at Le Chalet at L’Avenue at Saks. As the fall winds blasted down Fifth Avenue, things were heating up at the cozy après-ski style bar. The brand was celebrating the launch of the BBuzz Bag and its first women’s ready-to-wear shop at a luxury retailer in New York.

While shaggy-haired model and DJ Mona Matsuoka spun groovy disco tracks, guests in full Balmain and stilettos liberally sipped “Ipanema spritzes” and helped themselves to king crab. One observant man approached a particularly vampy girl in awe, gasping, “You’re so modelesque,” to which she replied, “Because I’m a model.” Among all of the beautiful people in beautiful clothing were Coco Rocha, Justine Skye, and Olivia Palermo. Take a look at photos from the cocktail party below.

From left: Samile Bermannelli, Riley Montana, Tami Williams, Valery Kaufman. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueOlivia Palermo and Olivier Rousteing. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth Avenue
From top: Samile Bermannelli, Riley Montana, Tami Williams, Valery Kaufman. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueOlivia... From top: Samile Bermannelli, Riley Montana, Tami Williams, Valery Kaufman. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueOlivia Palermo and Olivier Rousteing. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth Avenue
From left: Coco Rocha. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueRiley Montana and Justine Skye. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/ Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth Avenue
From left: Coco Rocha. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueRiley Montana and Justine Skye. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.... From left: Coco Rocha. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth AvenueRiley Montana and Justine Skye. Photo: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/ Courtesy of BFA for Saks Fifth Avenue
Balmain Had an Intimate Party at Saks