“Color me impressed,” rising actress Diana Silvers said to the gentleman next to her Thursday evening ahead of Ralph Lauren’s spring 2025 show, as she took in the scene around her. After many hours in the car — or a short few in a chopper, if you’re lucky, famous or both — guests were deposited onto a meticulously curated equestrian scene in Bridgehampton, N.Y., where the night began with an outdoor cocktail hour next to a pasture of horses.
Adding to the impression was the night’s big VIP: none other than First Lady Jill Biden, who attended with granddaughter Finnegan Biden.
Other celebrity guests included Jude Law, Usher, Kacey Musgraves, Naomi Watts, Colman Domingo, Tom Hiddleston, Cole Spouse, Joey King, Laura Dern and daughter Jaya Harper, Demi Singleton, H.E.R., Justin Theroux and Rufus Wainwright.
Biden was approached by one celebrity after the next. Hiddleston themed his questions around their surroundings.
“Do you ride horses?” he asked her. “No,” she replied.
It was Jude Law’s first Ralph Lauren show, despite having worn the brand personally for years.
“This kind of a relationship started today. So far so good. It’s the honeymoon period,” Law joked of his relationship with the brand.
“I have not been to a show of any kind for many years. I don’t know why,” he added. “It’s usually because of my work, or I find myself in some unusual country in the middle of nowhere.”
As luck would have it, he’s been in New York since March shooting “Black Rabbit” for Netflix. The project wraps at the end of the month but he’ll stay in town until December.
The long shoot did allow him and his family some trips out to the Hamptons over the summer.
“The family were up here for a couple of weeks and I could come up on the weekends; a little bit of Fire Island, a little bit of Bellport. I’ve now seen the light of that beautiful combination of city life and country life that New Yorkers have for the summer, and it makes a lot of sense,” he said. “It’s a very good life. The leaving is always beautiful, the air clears and you get this tranquility, and then there’s nothing better and driving back in and you get that skyline and back to the hustle.”
Domingo opted for a gray suit, turtleneck and coordinating trenchcoat.
“We’re doing 50 shades or gray, or maybe 51. Because I have to add my own spice to it,” he said. “I loved this immediately. It feels classic American, it feels like you could wear it in the 1940s or the 1980s or 2024.”
Domingo was one of the red carpet breakouts of last award season. With several projects on the horizon, he’s due back on the carpet this fall.
“I think I’m going to go more classic. I wanted to play with architectural cuts and color last season, and I feel like maybe my spirit is saying I want to be more classic, more effortless,” he said. “The moment guys catch onto your style, and they start emulating it in a beautiful way, it’s time to start switching it up.”
Nearby, Usher was parting the crowd in head-to-toe butter yellow linen.
“I mean, it’s a vibrant color, as the season is changing I figured it would be one last chance to wear it. We’re moving into fall,” he said.
For him, that means “heavier clothes.”
“I’m spending the majority of my time onstage,” he said of his fall sartorial plans. “I mean, I’ve even worn furs onstage now — faux furs.”
As for how Ralph Lauren makes him feel?
“Chic.”
