Dinner was prepared by L.A. chef Courtney Storer, the culinary director of “The Bear.”
, a 3,000-square-foot, residential-feeling Kelly Wearstler-designed store on Beverly Boulevard, after making a mark in Manhattan and Amagansett, N.Y. Naturally, the new space — with its back parking lot transformed into an outdoor garden for the occasion — served as the perfect setting for a celebratory dinner Thursday night.
“I didn’t know how to drive. I failed my driver test,” Johnson laughed, reminiscing. “I did love it, and ever since then I’ve had a piece of L.A. in my heart. It was a long time coming to open our home here. We really see it as a home.” She gathered longtime friends of the brand, actresses and their respective stylists — Gabrielle Union and Cynthia Erivo with Jason Bolden; Dakota Fanning with Samantha McMillen; Rachel Bilson with Nicole Chavez, and Melanie Lynskey with Misha Rudolph, all dressed in Johnson’s color- and print-filled designs.Dinner was prepared by L.A. chef Courtney Storer, the culinary director of FX’s “The Bear” . Guests were served a colorful beet salad, sea bass and a passion fruit pavlova.
Ukrainian artist Yelena Yemchuk, married to “The Bear” actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach, was among the bunch, as were actresses Gillian Jacobs, Lily Rabe, Jessica Williams, Nia Jervier and April Hughes; stylists Kate Foley, Erin Walsh, Brit and Kara Smith;and colleague Zuzanna Ciolek, director of the UTA Artist Space; producer Julie Darmody, and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures director and president Jacqueline Stewart.The women caught up, chitchatting about life in L.A.
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