From Fran Lebowitz To Eva Longoria, Victoria Beckham’s Dinner Party Pals Are Every Bit As Eclectic As You’d Hope

To ask someone their fantasy dinner party lineup is perhaps a little trite, but one look around Victoria Beckham’s table on Wednesday evening gave some hints. Think: Fran Leibowitz, Jenna Lyons, Andy Cohen, David Schwimmer, perfumer Ben Gorham and Helena Christensen, to name a few.

The designer opened her rolodex to assemble an eclectic only-in-New-York guest list for a night at Indochine to toast the arrival of her latest vision board manifestation – her namesake brand’s ultra-luxe boutique, now sitting pretty at 150 Mercer Street. “We opened on September 2nd and we’re off to an amazing start,” Beckham told Vogue, calling it a “homecoming” to the city where she first showed her designs back in 2008.

Earlier in the day, Beckham sat for an in-conversation event with Marc Jacobs at the LNP-designed store. “Marc is someone that I’ve known for a long time and someone who I’ve always really respected,” she said. “He’s supported me right from the beginning and has been a huge inspiration.” (Both fashion and pop culture fans will, of course, recall Jacobs’s seminal adverts starring Beckham in an oversized shopping bag almost 20 years ago.)

It’s been exactly a year since the three-part docuseries chronicling Beckham’s trajectory from Spice Girl to mainstay on the Paris Fashion Week calendar aired on Netflix. Not only did it allow audiences to peek behind the curtain, she feels the project was transformative for the business, too – which recently reported its first year of profitability and double digital growth. “I love the fact that the documentary really shone a light on the industry,” Beckham added. “I think it showed my involvement with the brand and what I do as creative director of both fashion and beauty. I was very transparent about what the business has been through. And we’ve come out the other end. To be able to say we’re profitable in fashion, that’s something very rare at the moment – and something I’m very, very proud of.”