Finn Wittrock, who attended with his wife, Sarah Roberts, had performed the final matinee of The Glass Menagerie only a few hours earlier, and Cynthia Erivo came to dinner in between shooting the new Steve McQueen project in Chicago. (Nottage’s Sweat, her long-overdue Broadway debut, is nominated for Best Play, a category that for the first time includes two plays written by women.) Nearby were Dear Evan Hansen (and La La Land) composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, whom Shaffer described as “the Lerner and Loewe for millennials,” and at the other end of the dinner table Ben Platt, the Broadway nerd turned star who requested a fog machine for his eighth birthday, the better to stage his backyard production of Cats. (“It was certainly a good year for Tolstoy,” Shaffer said archly, “and for the Russians.”) There was Andy Karl, who has persisted with the groundbreaking Groundhog Day despite a devastating knee injury Jenn Colella, the standout ensemble cast member of Come From Away and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. On hand were Rachel Chavkin, director of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, with the show’s stars Josh Groban, the divine Denée Benton, and Lucas Steele. Tonight our attention is on all of you,” Wintour said, addressing her guests, “and the many extraordinary shows we have to celebrate.”Īnd celebrate they did. She called Mario Testino, who happily popped over from London to set up his tripod.“I have to say that it is wonderful to have more than one conversation going on again. When she decided she wanted a pretty portrait of herself, she didn't have to bother with a cheapo digital camera. When she attended the Costume Institute Ball at the Met in 2006, Karl Lagerfeld personally designed her lovely little Chanel number. So what's it like to be the daughter of the fashion world's most powerful figure? Not half bad. Thanks to her mother's place in the media/fashion/social universe, Bee has become a fixture on the social scene in recent years, much like fellow fashion scion Julia Restoin Roitfeld. She used to live in the Village before announcing in March of 2011 that she would be moving to LA to work with Ryan Murphy, the creator of "Glee," on the concert film "Glee Live! 3D!" Bee's reported boyfriend these days is Jake Hurwitz, a comedy writer who does work for College Humor. She graduated Columbia in the spring of 2009 and took a job that fall at College Humor-the fratboy website now owned by Barry Diller's IAC media conglomerate-as College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen's assistant. She continued to follow in her famous mom's footsteps while enrolled as a student at Columbia, writing a semi-regular column for London's Daily Telegraph called "New York Notebook" in 2006, and interning at New York magazine during the summer of 2007. ![]() She hadn't even graduated high school when she landed her first media job: At 17, her mom named her a contributing editor at Teen Vogue. She now divides her time between her mom's townhouse on Sullivan Street and her dad's townhouse on Downing Street. So why Bee? She says she couldn't pronounce her name as a kid, but she could say "Bee," which is what everyone soon started calling her.īee's parents divorced when she was 12 following the revelation that her mom was cheating on her dad she spent her high school years dividing her time between her parents' respective townhouses while attending Spence. (Her dad is David Shaffer, who is currently chair of the child psychology department at New York-Presbyterian.) For the record, her real name is Katherine. as a baby when her mom landed the plum job of Vogue editor. Born in London, Shaffer moved to the U.S. The daughter of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, Bee Shaffer is as close to fashion royalty as you can get.
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