Funnily enough the dinner last night was hosted by GRAFF and I accosted King Laurence Graff to get you a new job without much joy

lots of celebrities wore crab bibs with diamonds printed on them thanks to Graff!

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Gallery largesse may have radically dwindled this year as private dinner budgets are slashed but nothing could deter legendary bon vivant media mogul Peter Brant from hosting the most stupendously stellar dinner at his all-time favourite Miami restaurant the venerable Joe’s Stone Crab. If the ostensible cause for celebration was the new Art in America, one of his most respected titles, the gathered great and good seemed more mesmerized by the parade of gigantic rocks sported by some most comely maidens courtesy of co-sponsors Graff. Amongst this power elite were everyone from Chuck Close, the Mugrabi brothers, the Glimchers, Thaddeus Ropac, Adam Lindemann, Barbara Gladstone, Amy Cappellazzo, Stellan Holm, Philip Taaffe, Beth Rudin de Woody and Jeffrey Deitch who even caused the room to break into spontaneous applause. The pleasure of seeing some of America’s top mannequins, all friends of Brant’s super-model wife Stephanie Seymour, strapped by strict staff into special crab bib-aprons culminated with the grand entrance of Naomi elle-même, hailed with enthusiasm by her old London mucker Malcolm McLaren. Guarding all this sparkling meriment were a crack team of Graff’s own in-house heavies and local gun-toting constabulary, mindful of the fact that the evening’s most jovial guest Laurence Graff himself had just bought one of the world’s most important diamonds for over $18m only hours earlier.