Vanity Fair hosts cocktail party to mark the opening of Tribeca Film Festival 2015

Last night saw New York’s power players converge on the New York State Supreme Courthouse for a Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival cocktail party, hosted by Graydon Carter, Ronald Perelman, and the festival’s co-founder Robert De Niro. This year marks a significant year in the history of the festival, which was founded by De Niro together with Jane Rosenthal, as an antidote to the atrocity of 9/11, with the aim of injecting some economic and social buoyancy back into the battered lower Manhattan. Now in its 14th year, the festival opening party looks on at the newly operational rebuilt Freedom World Trade Tower. 

De Niro did his host duties impeccably, greeting guests at the top of the grand venue's imposing stair case, which had been clad in red carpet and flooded with spotlights for the occasion. Stars including; Harvey Keitel, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Ivanka Trump, Diane von Furstenberg, Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls, and Constance Jablonski flowed through the doors to celebrate this jovial year in the festival’s history.

Joan Smalls and Derek Blasberg

Irina Shayk

Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower

Ivanka Trump

Constance Jablonski

Diane Von Furstenberg and Barry Diller

Andy Cohen

Lindsay Ellingson

Katie Lee Joel

Damani Baker and model Cameron Russell 

Debi Mazar

Amy Fine Collins