"9.30 p.m., cocktail candlelight in the Palazzo Coccina-Papadopoli garden, a building from the 15th century that faces the Canal Grande at San Polo, home of Giberto and Bianca Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga. Following, in the rooms and noble portego of the residence, a seated dinner for 150. Visconti atmospheres, candles, velvet dévoré polychrome tablecloths with rose petals, moldings and neo-rocaille gildings from the eighteen hundreds, frescos and mirrors, big sculptural fireplaces in white marble. All enriched by Moët & Chandon's beading, sponsor of the evening with Jaeger LeCoultre that, for the event, made a special personalized watch as a gift from L'Uomo Vogue and Jaeger LeCoultre to Quentin Tarantino.
A five-star parterre of guests that mixed cinema, culture, celebrities, fashion and society, especially from Venice. Other than an amused and particularly communicative Quentin Tarantino, seated next to Franca Sozzani, there were other beautiful people like Jessica Alba, Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Jasmine Trinca, Naomi Campbell,, Stefania Rocca,Lapo Elkann and Bianca Brandolini d'Adda, Renzo Rosso, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Giovanni Volpi di Misurata, Alberta Ferretti, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli from Valentino,Isabella Ragonese, Stephen Dorff, Rinko Kikuchi, Teresa and Francesco Maccapani Missoni, Silvia Fendi, Luca Guadagnino, Delfina Delettrez, Piergiorgio Bellocchio, who has a striking resemblance to his father the director Marco, Sabrina Impacciatore, Vittoria Puccini and Alessandro Preziosi.
Also in attendance super producers like Aurelio de Laurentiis and Pietro Valsecchi and Camilla Nesbitt, accompanied by their daughter Virginia. Very admired were Afef Tronchetti Provera, the mysterious and very sweet Shirin Neshat, Beatrice Bulgari, with her husband Nicola, that wore fabulous emerald earrings, Eva Riccobono, next to Matteo Ceccarini.
Among the Venetians, Brandino and Marie Brandolini d'Adda, Fabrizio and Carla Plessi, Luigino and Roberta Rossi. The last guests left Palazzo Papapadopoli late at night, then merged to an after-party at the champagne store Krug of Palazzina Grassi, were the dancing went on until dawn".
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