On Thursday afternoon, a group of well-known starlets gathered at the famous Colony Club on Park Avenue.
It made sense for Dakota Fanning, Allison Williams, Hailee Steinfeld, Ciara and Emily Ratajkowski to swan about what was once New York’s elite women’s social club. They were all part of an elite club themselves — they had all been anointed “It” girls by W magazine.
Every year, W’s editor at large Lynn Hirschberg convenes what Sue Mengers might have termed her “sparklies” — young starlets who’ve been featured in the magazine — for a lunch and it just so happened that this year it coincided with the first day of New York Fashion Week.
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“Just this today,” said Fanning of her fashion week plans. She’s taking off soon to shoot her latest film, “American Pastoral.” “I gotta go home and pack.”
W’s October cover girl, Williams, is also looking at a week away from the fashion mayhem. “I don’t think I’ve ever not gone to a single show before,” she said. The actress wore a dress by Antonio Marras, and even though many are itching at the first chance to pull out their autumn looks, she said, “It feels like a mouth outside, and I was looking at all the fall and pre-fall, but putting pants on just feels morally wrong at this point.”
Steinfeld also isn’t planning too many fashion week outings, though she will be popping up in promotion of her first album, whose lead single “Love Myself” came out in August. “I just found out on the way here the video hit 7 million views,” she said, sounding surprised. And what does she make of the “It” girl distinction? “I think everyone has different qualities, and it’s a fun title.”
Tara Subkoff, who makes her directorial debut later this year with the release of her film “#Horror,” is no stranger to the concept. The movie brings together other Nineties “It” girls like Natasha Lyonne and her “Last Days of Disco” costar Chloë Sevigny with “unknown faces that are new, young and fresh and are so gorgeous and so talented,” she said, running out of adjectives.
In other words, future ‘It’ girls.