On Wednesday night, Chloé's Creative Director Chemena Kamali hosted an intimate gathering tucked away at a private residence in Hollywood Hills. The scene transported guests back in time to 1960s Los Angeles, a party set to the backdrop of the city’s skyline as the sun set over the candlelit home, guests sat poolside and listened to the musings of singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt.
Starlets and creatives mingled while wearing a delicate mix of pieces from Kamali’s romantic collections. Juliette Lewis looked radiant in a rose colored blouse featuring a delicate capelet, a match made in heaven with brown leather trousers and a bracelet bag. Styled in a muted mix of blush hues and earth tones amid the ambient glow, Gal Gadot wore a whisper-thin peach dress tucked into brown thigh-high leather boots from the Spring 2025 runway. Dree Hemingway lounged in a tan chiffon gown with scalloped trim.
“Chemena threw a classic LA house party, effectively paying homage to the casual gatherings that would come to define an era, like Byrds at Jane Fonda’s in 1965,” Pratt said. “We tried to bring the shadows and sunshine to the hills.”
While Kamali has given editors, creatives and It-girls a special glimpse into her bohemian paradise through her collections, the evening allowed Chloé girls to step into another echelon of Kamali’s world. Watching Kamali’s fluid chiffon confections, blouson sleeve blouses and sweeping hemlines ebb and flow on the runway, they capture a musicality all their own. So, it comes as no surprise that the sprawling music scene that melted over the Golden Coast in the 1960s and 1970s inspires Kamali in her work.
“The magic and spontaneous creativity of the California music scene from the 70s has always been an essential source of my inspiration and creative process,” Kamali said. “Jessica’s music embodies this sound today and celebrates the freedom, self-expression and poetry that is so much part of the Chloé spirit.”
Since her groundbreaking Paris Fashion Week debut at the helm of Chloé in February, Kamali has drawn a bevy of creatives and stars to her whimsical brand. Each piece offers a salve from the mundane and a gateway to pure bliss. Accessories, jewelry and shoes inspire palpable joy—just one glimpse at the gold clamshell bag worn by Kaia Gerber could boost anyone's dopamine levels.
The coalition of talents from different facets of entertainment, fashion and art illustrated the burgeoning community fostered by Kamali's sublime vision. Garments promise a free flowing escape, moving with the figures they frame, unencumbered by any restrictive construction. Brother Vellies creative director and CFDA Vice Chair, Aurora James, attended in a sweeping layered bell sleeve blouse, and rising star Madelaine Petsch glowed in an apricot gown tinged by the room's warm amber glow.
And at the end of the day, who doesn’t want to live in a world of soft, waif thin gowns, gold encrusted banana shaped bags, and kitten heeled jelly sandals? In Kamali’s dreamscapes, luxury, novelty and weightlessness harmonize in perfect synchronicity, singing a tune that we want to play again and again.
