FIR BALL Leave it to Celine designer Michael Kors to show those Fren..
Ethan Hayes
Updated on March 20, 2026
FIR BALL
Leave it to Celine designer Michael Kors to show those French how to trim a Christmas tree. At a party at the Carrousel du Louvre last week hosted by French television personality Marie Christiane Marek, Kors decorated the traditional towering evergreen with fox fur poufs, gray cashmere flannel bows and a gray cashmere hat on top. Sonia Rykiel, Cristina Ortiz from Lanvin and Claude Montana — whose contribution was an ultraminimalist gray cone — were among the other designers on hand.
The day before, Doris Brynner hosted a lunch at the Christian Dior flagship on Avenue Montaigne to promote the gift department she has established there and will soon be taking to Dior boutiques in America. Not that the hand-picked selection of glass, linens and trays hasn’t been moving on its own.
“It’s great,” said the straight-talking Brynner when asked how sales were going, “but now I’m worrying about how to keep the shelves and tables filled with stuff for January, once the holidays are over.”
Across the world in Los Angeles, Max Evans’s steamy western novel of male bonding, “The Hi-Lo Country,” came to the screen — 38 years after it was written. But at least the author was there for the movie’s premiere, along with its stars, Woody Harrelson, Billy Crudup and Patricia Arquette, and director, Stephen Frears.
Arquette plays the femme fatale Mona, who slinks around the movie in sexy Forties garb and becomes the object of a love triangle that tests the friendship between Harrelson and Crudup. In real life, the friends have much less in common.
“We’re totally different from each other,” said Harrelson about his co-star. “He wakes up to bacon and pancakes, and I wake up to spirulina fruit smoothies.”
At a party after the screening, a buxom representative from Harrelson’s new O2 bar circulated through the Geffen Playhouse offering guests — including Edward Norton, Rebecca Broussard, Wesley Snipes, Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Carla Gugino — hits of oxygen through a plastic nose piece.
