(Apparently there was a filming conflict, although according to her Instagram Story feed Ms. Alba did find time to throw a 40th birthday party for her husband over the weekend.)
By Sunday night, however, the foundation had managed to recruit a ragtag band of celebrities including Nicky Hilton Rothschild, a socialite and handbag designer; Kenan Thompson, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member; and Matthew Morrison, a former star of “Glee.”
At the pre-dinner reception, where waiters served bacon-wrapped scallops, the mood was like a birthday party in a hospital ward. “Retail died, and I like malls,” Mr. Thompson said of his reason for being there.
“Retail is not bad,” Ms. Rothschild said. “Far from it.”
Mr. Morrison recalled working at the Gap in 1997, while he was a student at New York University. “I was in charge of the denim wall,” he said. “I still fold my denim really well. Marie Kondo has nothing on me.”
Among the two dozen retail executives honored that night was Jennifer Rubio, a founder of the luggage brand Away. “I was fired from retail,” Ms. Rubio said of her brief stint at the Hollister store in the Bridgewater Commons mall in New Jersey. “I just wasn’t very good at folding T-shirts and didn’t show up on time — the two things that were essential to the job.”
She said her advice to her own young employees is: “Don’t do anything I did.”
Snoop Dogg, arguably the biggest celebrity of the night, presented an award to Chip Bergh, the chief executive of Levi Strauss Co.
Turns out, Snoop Dogg once toiled in retail, too. “At a Lucky’s in North Long Beach,” he said, referring to a supermarket in his California hometown. “I loved it. I could steal food and steal groceries every night.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/style/eve-babitz-book-party-graydon-carter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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