Gabriela Hearst Hosts Mark Ronson, Lykke Li, Cat Power and More for Holiday Cocktail

Leigh Nordstrom
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Is it even a holiday party if it doesn’t include multiple people proclaiming their drunkenness from onstage and by the end of the night the entire room is on their feet dancing?

Such was the scene Monday evening inside Café Carlyle, where Gabriela Hearst and Yola Mezcal cohosted a party in support of Save the Children. Guests including Katie Couric, Justin Theroux, Grace and Mamie Gummer, Simon Rex, Sam Fragoso, Tremaine Emory, Alex Tieghi-Walker, Dustin Yellin, Austin Hearst and Brooke Garber Neidich were treated to an open bar of mezcal cocktails before performances began. Taking the stage were Cat Power, Lykke Li, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Monika and Marion Raw.

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Ronson was on the guitar throughout everyone’s set, breaking only to take videos on his phone of Wyatt’s performance of his Miike Snow song “Animal.” Cat Power performed “Georgia on My Mind,” Otis Redding’s “These Arms of Mine,” and James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s World,” as well as Eartha Kitt’s “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love,” around which she copped to sneaking into Café Carlyle when she was 20 years old to hear Kitt sound check.

Lykke Li performed her song with Ronson, “Late Night Feelings,” as well as “I Follow Rivers,” while Ronson and Wyatt brought their freshly Golden Globe-nominated song “I’m Just Ken,” from the “Barbie” movie, to The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel.

Hearst took to the stage, “dressed like a meringue” in a dress of her own design, to tell the room about Save the Children, which she’s been on the board of since 2018.

“The suffering out there is great as we all know. And so we have to bring it in because we are the lucky ones. And just to celebrate how lucky we all are that we’re here, the most punk thing to do is to show joy, right? And to show awareness,” Hearst said to cheers. “So in this Christmas [season], maybe don’t buy something that’s an object and [instead] help another human. And if you’re here, you can help through money. So just think of the suffering, because a lack of not thinking of that is apathy, which means you’re dead. So what do you want to be, dead or alive?”

Launch Gallery: Inside the Yola Mezcal & Gabriela Hearst's Holiday Soiree

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