Confessions from the Velvet Ropes: Kelly Cutrone & Diane Pernet on MTV, Michael Musto's Anniversary Party with Joan Rivers, and the Scope Cocktail hosted by People's Revolution at Quality Meats in NYC. Photos by Glenn Belverio

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March 11, 2010

Kelly Cutrone & Diane Pernet on MTV, Michael Musto's Anniversary Party with Joan Rivers, and the Scope Cocktail hosted by People's Revolution at Quality Meats in NYC. Photos by Glenn Belverio

Above: Diane at the SCOPE cocktail at Quality Meats

Dear Readers,

My friend Diane Pernet was in town last week for SCOPE and we had a very Warholian afternoon at Kelly Cutrone's loft where MTV interviewed Diane & Kelly about the Oscars and Lady Gaga's new "Telephone" video.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! Diane & I ready ourselves for our next victim.

At the cocktail, I was delighted to meet fellow Shaded View contributor Dustin Pittman. We chatted for a long time and of course he had the best stories about photographing Mick Jagger at a show in the early '70s and really that was just the tip of the Chanel iceberg. After the cocktail he took me to a party for Michael Musto...it was just like the old days again.

Joan Rivers hosted Michael Musto's 125th anniversary as a scribe at the Village Voice. By the way, did you hear about Joan's date dropping dead in front of her during dinner at Le Cirque recently? Seriously. She made a joke about how it was the first time he saw her in the light so it was too much of a shock for his heart. But really, having a date drop dead at Le Cirque? That is SO glamorous. I am jalouse.

Dirty Martini came out to do a little dance to commemorate Musto's 225 years in the nightlife biz. At one point during the night I rested my champagne flute on what I thought was a nifty end table made out of faux-petrified wood. I later learned that it was Cindy Adams.

Earlier on the evening Diane & I had tea with our friend Pierrot Carrilero at the Tribeca Grand Hotel

On Monday, I had breakfast with Diane at Pain Quotidien before popping in at Kelly Cutrone's. We thought it would be a short visit but we ended up staying for 4 hours.