TOD’S hosted a cocktail event to celebrate the launch of Claiborne Swanson Frank’s Assouline photography book “American Beauty”, featuring portraits shot by Claiborne of various fashionable American women editors, socials, models, designers, musicians, and artists. 

TOD’s represents everyday modern women, having dressed many of the women featured in the book and TOD’s heritage and products match these women’s fashionable and elegant taste. To evoke the book’s message of “American Beauty”, TOD’s displayed their iconic products such as the Gommino and the D bag in a color array of red, white and blue throughout the event space. 

“I will never forget that TOD’s shoot in a charming little beach town outside of Rome.  It was one of those days where life seems to be in Technicolor and everything feels very much like a dream. I like the strong sense of structure and shape of the products. It’s something you can wear for years,” Claiborne says about TOD’s.

About 250 people attended the event at the grand space in Park Avenue, uptown New York, including many of the women featured in the book and guest list included Anna Wintour, Elettra Wiedemann, Lilly Aldridge, Jessica Stam, Solange Knowles, Lauren Bush, Lauren Santo Domingo, Maggie Betts, Valerie Boster, John Dempsey, Amanda Hearst, Vanessa Getty, Kelly Rutherford, Olivia Chantecaille, Lily Kwong, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Monique Pean, Alina Cho, Georgina Bloomberg amongst others.