Dispatch From Zimmermann's Celeb-Filled Cruise Dinner In NYC

In The Dispatch, Coveteur editors take you inside the buzziest parties and fashion events, reporting on what really goes down inside the hardest-to-get-into rooms.

There’s just something about seeing Uma Thurman glide through Indochine on a random Wednesday that makes you remember why you love New York. I also happened to be there to attend Zimmermann’s Cruise 2027 dinner, where Katie Holmes and her artist boyfriend, Jason Bard Yarmosky, were posing against the giant neon Zimmermann sign and the lychee saketinis were going down too easily. (I had at least three...after that, I honestly stopped counting.) Everywhere I turned, there was someone else: Naomi Watts! Eve Hewson! Pauline Chalamet! Ziwe!

Founders Nicky and Simone Zimmermann opened the dinner with a touching speech about why New York is "the world" and why it means so much to them. The menus were tied with red flowers from Custom Fabric Flowers, which Zimmermann’s chic head of Talent & VIP, Deborah Gjinaj, untied and fastened around her wrist like a corsage. (I copied her soon after.)

Coveteur Closet alum Charlotte Lawrence, in a lacy, witchy Zimmermann dress, sang two of her own songs before covering Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” and encouraging all the guests to sing along. Lawrence is known for her angsty, catchy pop ballads, but I also think she could moonlight as a comedian. Her quips—including namedropping the terrible man who inspired her song, Dog—had all of us laughing, and I loved that she talked copiously about taking multiple tequila shots before her set. Most of us followed her instructions and sang along to "Dreams," though a few of the influencers across from me seemed less familiar with the lyrics (I can't blame them—they were probably born after 2000!). After a delicious dinner of black cod, tuna tartare and crispy rock shrimp, Amrit got behind the decks, and everyone got up to dance to Madonna and Britney. Proof the event was actually fun: Katie Holmes and Uma Thurman stayed longer than I did. Scroll through to see inside celeb-filled, very New York night.