Sub was the prefix of the eve as stars headed from a screening of Submarine hosted by The Cinema Society, Altoids and The Weinstein Company at Landmark Sunshine Cinema, to an intimate soirée at The Vault at Pfaff’s last night.  Ben Stiller, executive producer of the sweetly off-kilter coming-of-age tale, was on hand for the occasion along with director Richard Ayoade, avec a stellar smattering of guests including Noah Baumbach, Jason Schwartzman, Griffin Dunne, Shenae Grimes, Bettina Zilkha, Peter Davis, Albert Hammond, Jr., Genevieve Jones and Russell Simmons.

While Stiller made the rounds and posed for a plethora of pics, his polka dot-bedecked beau Chrsitine Taylor took a moment to chat about summertime plans for the fam, which include a jaunt to Hawaii sandwiched between some courtside fandom. “I’m a huge tennis junkie, so Wimbledon bookends the beginning of the summer, and the U.S. Open winds things down!” 

The British gem of a dramedy’s protagonist Oliver Tate wasn’t quite an on-screen interpretation of Ayoade’s own teenhood. “I wasn’t precocious, because that has an implication of intelligence and stature.” But Ayoade, who was particularly adept with fixing video recorders during his formative years, says that neither intellect nor stature rose with age. “Those qualities never arrived, so by now I’ve just given up.”  

After the screening, the chic set of filmgoers ventured a few blocks northwest to the recently reopened Vault at Pfaff’s, a speakeasy-esque libation lair dating back to 1855. Additional chicettes like Anna Sui, John Demsey and Grace Coddington ventured below ground to sip Moet from coupe stemware and nibble on gorgonzola and chorizo-stuffed arancini and truffled disks of mushroom pate. What useful theories of life did Theory’s Olivier Theyskens were dispensed as advice during his adolescence?  ”Use condoms!” Theyskens exclaimed with a flip of his long raven locks. The designer got out of the teen years somewhat scot-free– he couldn’t recall a single misguided nugget of wisdom. “I never really had bad advice.” If only we were all that lucky!
ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV

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