Amy Astley, Tory BurchNeil Rasmus\/BFA.com<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say Amy is one of the few people who could get me to stand on a 30-foot ladder holding a pair of garden shears,\u201d Tory Burch<\/a> told us with a laugh last night. \u201cYou work on your home for so long, but to have people see it in a different way in the magazine is so special after all of the layering and storytelling we do over time.\u201d<\/p>\n After nine years at the helm of Architectural Digest, persuading the likes of Burch\u2014and many more\u2014to open the doors to their beautiful homes, Amy Astley has plenty of tales to share. They\u2019ve now come together in a new book, AD at Home,<\/a> celebrated last night at the Tory Burch SoHo boutique. Inside the Rizzoli-published work, readers find a curated selection of greatest hits from Astley\u2019s tenure, including the 2017 cover in which Burch is posed atop a ladder beside the towering hedges of her Hamptons home.<\/p>\n \u201cThis project is really about showing great people at home,\u201d Astley told Vogue before taking a seat to sign copies of the tome for friends and fans including Aerin Lauder, Huma Abedin<\/a>, and Jordan Roth<\/a>. \u201cThere are no anonymous houses, no architectural feats, no museums\u2014just great people in their homes. So it\u2019s a lot of my favorite people and my favorite houses\u2014like Tory Burch, like Margherita Missoni, like Alicia Keys, like Claudia Schiffer. They\u2019re the people who I feel have the life force, and their house is memorable and special and really encapsulates their style, and I\u2019m just proud that so many people let us invade their private space and record it forever for posterity.\u201d<\/p>\n Between the store\u2019s canopy of layered rattan baskets and a dazzling cake adorned with sugared cherries in the shape of the AD logo, guests couldn\u2019t help but feel right at home in a space that took clear cues from Burch\u2019s own interiors. In the back garden, AD\u2019s market director Madeline O\u2019Malley donned a Tory Burch runway confection with mirrored paillettes flashing like a disco ball in the late-evening sun. \u201cI think the book really captures the essence of Amy\u2019s AD,\u201d O\u2019Malley said. \u201cThere\u2019s personality, style, and surprise, and it gives those of us who may or may not be confined to our studio apartments something to dream about!\u201d<\/p>\n Later, partygoers carried on to Genesis House in Manhattan\u2019s Meatpacking District for a celebratory dinner hosted by Alina Cho. While dining on the Michelin-starred Korean menu, the crowd reminisced about photo shoots and stories gone by as they thumbed through the book\u2019s pages\u2014before inevitably plotting the next chapter of showstopping issues to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Astley, Tory BurchNeil Rasmus\/BFA.com \u201cI would say Amy is one of the few people who could get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69,30553],"class_list":{"0":"post-32060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-vogue-parties"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}