A small dinner party is held on Monday night, hosted by designer Gabriela Hearst and her husband Austin, honoring the actress Gillian Anderson. The dinner party, held at Hearst’s West Village town house to celebrate
her six-week run as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar
Named Desire” at St. Ann’s Warehouse (opened April 23).
“She is one of the most complex characters I have ever read on any page,
in any text or literature,” said Anderson, wearing a dress from
Hearst’s fall collection. “She’s so complicated and tragic. I think her journey is
understandable and shows just how tortured she is.…She just has so many
layers that work simultaneously, obviously it’s going to be a
challenge.”
Hearst is a major fan of her role as Stella Gibson in the BBC serial killer series
“The Fall.” “She is very much the woman you dream of dressing, very
sexy and so different from her ‘X Files’ character,” said Hearst. “Gillian’s character in ‘The Fall’ and the way she portrays
her was such a big inspiration for me. I knew that behind such a talent
had to be a deep intelligence.”
