Inside the Best Celebrity Parties, Galas, and Events of Winter 2025

We’re just two months into 2025, and already the social events calendar for the year is stacked. Fashion month looms large with February on the horizon—and that means plenty of parties, dinners, and late nights at the style set’s favorite haunts and legendary venues in New York, London, Milan, and Paris. But before all that, Paris Couture Week arrives on Monday, January 27—which will come with it numerous fêtes. Back in New York City, the Whitney Museum is throwing its annual art party on January 28; this year, it’s disco-themed. On the gala front, the New York Philharmonic will host a Lunar New Year extravaganza on Tuesday, February 11. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood is plotting its own starry gala for springtime in April. But for the moment, the stars are burrowing down in snowy, far-flung locales, like Aspen, Colorado, where celebs flock to venues like The Snow Lodge, a club-slash-bar-slash-restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel. Keep checking back here as we follow all the biggest parties of the year—and the celebs who attended them.

On Thursday, Feb. 6, guests joined Jimmy Choo creative director Sandra Choi and Chloë Sevigny for an intimate dinner to celebrate the brand’s spring 2025 campaign—in which Sevigny stars—at downtown hotspot Jean’s.

Legendary musician Patti Smith, a longtime friend of the brand, performed alongside her daughter Jesse Paris Smith for a crowd that included Justin Theroux, Jack Harlow, Dree Hemingway, Brit Lower, Cole Escola, Amanda Lepore, Lisa Rinna, Japanese Breakfast, and Jemima Kirke.

Martha Stewart was also in attendance for the exclusive evening, which ended with a special DJ set by Grammy-nominated artist The Dare.

New York Fashion Week got off to a quintessential start on the evening of February 5, courtesy of Saks Fifth Avenue. The retailer hosted its annual pre-NYFW fete at the newly opened Crane Club Restaurant in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Per usual, the event drew a mix of industry insiders and front-row regulars who enjoyed Saks-branded treats and their signature Champagne tower throughout the evening. Alex Consani, dressed in a sheer white dress, preferred a martini over the bubbles, however.

Indie-pop darling Caroline Polachek delighted the crowd with a performance of her songs “Bunny Is a Rider,” “Sunset,” and “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.” A sheer Kiki de Montparnasse slipdress and Gucci undergarments made up Polachek’s look for the evening.

Laura Harrier, dressed to the nines in ruched velvet, joined Charli XCX collaborator The Dare and actors Thomas Doherty and Louisa Jacobson for the event. Also in attendance were designers like Rachel Scott of Diotima and Prabal Gurung, who got some deserved R&R before presenting the brand’s fall 2025 collections in the coming days.

On Monday, February 3, designer Phillip Lim held his annual Lunar New Year party at the restaurant Coqodaq in New York City’s Flatiron District. The fete was thrown in collaboration with Hennessy, which kitted out the chic, dimly lit space with cognac-based cocktails of all kinds, including The Snake, a take on the classic Manhattan. Guests were treated to a Korean fried chicken dinner, replete with Hennessy pairings for each course.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins was in attendance, along with partner (and fellow filmmaker) Lulu Wang. The starry evening was filled with AAPI luminaries of the moment, like Prabal Gurung, Laura Kim, Eva Chen, and DJ/model Mona Matsuoka.

Kim Shui (left), who will reveal her latest fall 2025 collection at New York Fashion Week, poses for a photo with Beverly Nguyen.

Laura Jung was one of the many celebs of the evening who plucked red envelopes containing $2 bills from a faux maple tree that had been installed in the venue.

What’s a Lunar New Year celebration without a dragon dance? Here, Hennessy’s Antoine Varlet gets a taste of the annual tradition for the first time. Xin nian kuai le!

Michael Kors convened a VIP crowd at Bemelman’s Bar on February 3 to celebrate the opening of his new boutique just down the street on Madison Avenue—but the guest list culled heavily from Broadway. While he may be best known at the moment for hosting the fiendishly addictive reality show The Traitors, Cumming reminded everyone why he’s a Tony winner with a powerhouse three-song set that included “Mein Herr” and “The Ladies Who Lunch.” Very likely future Tony nominee (if not eventual winner) Nicole Scherzinger, currently starring in Sunset Boulevard, took a seat front and center to cheer on Cumming. A little to her left stood Tony winner Jane Krakowski.

Of course, the event served as an unofficial kick-off to New York Fashion Week as well, and the fashion world was well-represented. Iman and Patti Hanson, both supermodels and longtime Kors friends (not to mention both the wives of rock royalty) had a sweet reunion.

Katie Holmes, fresh off her own run on the Great White Way, turned up in a black gown that showed off her shoulders.

Jane Krakowski.

Of all the galas, fetes, and parties held in New York’s many art museums, the Whitney’s annual Art Party is undoubtedly the wildest. This year the museum really let loose, turning its lobby into the Studio 54-inspired “Studio 99” for the night. DJs The Muses and Jenny Albright spun a steady procession of disco classics. Guests were invited to peruse the museum’s exhibitions upstairs, and could report back to the dance floor in an elevator outfitted with a bar serving Maestro Dobel tequila.

Above, Housewife Jessel Taank, party co-chair Micaela Erlanger, Andrew Taylor, and Julie Beynon hold court.

While Bianca Jagger and her white horse did not manage to swing through, Mischa Barton, wearing a glossy black mini-dress, did.

Designer Cynthia Rowley, who served on the host committee, and her daughter, the reality and social media star Kit Keenan, lightly coordinated with pink florals.

Nightlife icon Dianne Brill, meanwhile, proved she can still demand attention in any room.

Kendall, Kylie, Hailey, and Justin may have been in Aspen this past weekend—but so were a gang of NYC party legends like Susanne Bartsch and Amanda Lepore, pictured here. The two had flown to the snowy location for Gay Ski Week, and stopped at Revolve x The Snow Lodge’s party at the Jade Room in the St. Regis Hotel on Friday night. Together with Joey Arias, they sat to dinner in The Snow Lodge’s impressive dining room—replete with a giant fireplace and DJ Nyjah Huston spinning tunes all night.

Caroline Vreeland and model Maryna Linchuk, shown here, were also in attendance for the lavish weekend in Aspen.

Lola Von Rox, Annartist, Vera Westwood, and many more friends joined Arias, Bartsch, and Lepore for a night of dinner and clubbing at Snow Lodge.

The next evening, the jet set took the party outside, braving the frigid temps for a DJ set with Bedouin during the Revolve x The Snow Lodge Aprés Ski party at the St. Regis.

Guests included Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse (Snow Lodge regulars), who paused grooving on the outdoor dance floor to snap a photo.

Palvin seemed to channel Kendall Jenner’s Aspen style with a vintage-inspired blazer, black leggings, and black boots.