New York Fashion Week brought a ripple of parties across the city, where urban cowboys, indie-sleaze-aspiring revelers and stylish, timeworn New Yorkers strutted their stuff. It was not just vamping models and eager spectators pumping out looks. Off the runways, a less curated undercurrent (or at least one carefully chosen to appear so) took over after sundown. See who was out and what they wore.

Tuesday, Sept. 10

Leon Bridges Performs at a Mansion Filled With Jewels

Credit…The actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Ari Parker

“It’s just diamonds and diamonds,” said one partygoer. “Cascading diamonds,” another replied.

It was Tuesday evening, and a crowd in black suits and long, sparkly cocktail dresses wove through the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where Boucheron, the luxury French jewelry brand, was throwing a lavish affair to celebrate its first New York City store.

Guests walked through a maze of small, dark rooms adorned with jewelry once worn by members of America’s high society and into a garden for the party. They peered at a hairpiece turned brooch that Elizabeth Taylor wore to the Oscars in the 1970s; an Art Deco bracelet that belonged to the Wallis Simpson; and replicated pieces from the collections of Caroline Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The actor Colman Domingo was impressed. He was modeling a leopard necklace that he had chosen because his husband calls him “The Cat.”

The New York Times