{"id":245424,"date":"2026-05-27T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:49:10","slug":"inside-the-comite-colbert-new-york-opening-cocktail-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245424\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Comit\u00e9 Colbert New York Opening Cocktail Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tComit\u00e9 Colbert <\/a>has touched down in New York<\/a>, and celebrated on Tuesday evening with a cocktail party to kick off the opening of an exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLocated at The Shed, \u201cHidden Treasures, 250 Years of Franco-American Luxury Stories\u201d features items from 65 French luxury brands that highlight the centuries-long special relationship between France and the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGuests including Pat Cleveland, J.Crew\u2019s Olympia Gayot, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Maye Musk, Olivier Bron and Pierre-Yves Roussel gathered on the top floor of The Shed for a glass of Veuve Clicquot, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a chance to walk through the exhibition on its first day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tComit\u00e9 Colbert<\/a> \u201cHidden Treasures\u201d exhibition.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarsha Bernstein\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBoth excited and exhausted\u201d was how B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte \u00c9pinay, president and chief executive officer of Comit\u00e9 Colbert, was feeling. \u201cI\u2019m so proud to be here in New York<\/a> to host that exhibition we worked on for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exhibition contains many high value items, including a pink Givenchy coat worn by U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and a piece by Karl Lagerfeld for Chlo\u00e9<\/a>, not to mention jewels and objets from Boucheron, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEverything was difficult,\u201d \u00c9pinay said of the process of getting the pieces to New York. \u201cYou have all these pieces, to transport them with the insurance, with the security, with the temperature, so many difficulties to solve. Some artifacts need a certain light, some others need humidity, some others no humidity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Pat<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tPat Cleveland<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarsha Bernstein\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat strikes me most probably is not really what we\u2019re celebrating tonight. It\u2019s what we\u2019re continuing to build here in the U.S. again, as we have in the past,\u201d said Laurent Bili, the ambassador of France to the U.S., in his opening remarks ahead of the ribbon cutting. \u201cIt\u2019s creating a living bridge between heritage and modernity, but as well as between our two nations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe summarized his sentiments for the evening with a message he saw earlier in the evening \u201con one of the crates in the back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt said, \u2018created in France, loved in America,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I love that a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comit\u00e9 Colbert has touched down in New York, and celebrated on Tuesday evening with a cocktail party to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55425,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-245424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-comitu00e9-colbert","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}