SOPHIA KOKOSALAKI and Renzo Rosso kept it small and intimate last night as they celebrated the Diesel Black Gold autumn/winter 2010-11 collection with an elegant dinner at Claridge's.
"I just want to say thank you all for coming," a semi-shy Rosso welcomed his guests before toasting to the label's relatively new womenswear creative director, Kokosalaki - who took the helm of the brand last year and debuted her autumn/winter collection for it during New York Fashion Week in February. "She's so talented and we are so pleased to be working with her," enthused a hat-clad Rosso.
An equally shy and reluctant speech-maker, Kokosalaki returned the praise - "It's great to be working with Diesel, it's already like family," she said - and was keen to make sure her guests - who included models-of-the-moment Daisy Lowe and David Gandy as well as actor Luke Evans - had enjoyed their evening. "Did you have a nice time?" she thoughtfully asked.
And while praise and modesty circulated in the centre of the table, at one end talk turned to that of David Gandy's mother's top notch fruit cake, while at the other it was rumours of whether or not some of the SATC cast may or may not have been spotted in the building.
