Chanel and Tribeca’s Through Her Lens Luncheon Was Worth Dancing About

Katie Holmes, Meg Ryan, and Jodie Foster were among the stars who gathered to celebrate women filmmakers at the annual event.

Over in Europe, Chanel stores were mobbed this week as Matthieu Blazy fans lined up to get their hands on the designer’s first Métiers d’Art collection. But at the Greenwich Hotel Courtyard in New York, a much more subdued, yet equally Chanel-clad, group gathered. On Friday, June 5, Chanel hosted its annual lunch in celebration of Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program. There, the brand and Tribeca Film Festival toasted eleven years of an initiative that highlights and connects bold, visionary female filmmakers.

The guest list was a cross-generational mix of stars from film, television, art, and music with Katie Holmes, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Myha’la, Bethann Hardison, and filmmakers Patty Jenkins and Mira Nair (aka the First Mother of New York) all in attendance. Ryan, in a tonal cream look featuring oversized pants, found some much-coveted shade in the restaurant’s courtyard where she chatted with Foster (casual in a Chanel Charvet shirt) and nibbled on passed hors d'oeuvres. Meanwhile, Francesca Scorsese, who arrived fashionably late, took a moment to connect with Tommy Dorfman.

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By Carolyn Twersky Winkler