Sadly, those friendship bracelets you made at summer camp all those years ago aren’t really appropriate for the office. But Sunday’s Best has come up with an alternative that you can wear anywhere: gold vermeil and oxidized silver versions that are cast from the real thing. Minus the fraying edges and loose threads, of course.—Elizabeth Monson

“I’m in uniform tonight,” laughed pro-surfer Jennifer Smith of her head-to-toe Roxy look last night. Which was fitting, since she was at the launch of “Surf Girl Roxy” (Chronicle), a new collection of the best photos of the Roxy Girls surf team over the past decade. Veronica Kay Baker, who’s been on the Roxy team for the past 15 years, gave us some insight into the brand: “Roxy gave us the clothes that really helped define women’s surfing. Before Roxy there were no board shorts for women—they had to wear guys’ trunks. Roxy came out with their own board shorts and the sport really took off. Once we had our uniforms we were ready to go!” The West Coast vibe even got to Bronx-born co-host Joy Bryant, who, when asked about her affiliation with the brand, started dropping slang like a native: “Well, aside from being a really killer shredder…I’m joking.” The actress/surfer/snowboarder grinned and added enthusiastically, “I just love that is a girls’ company, girls that just rip it up!”—Kelley Hoffman

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Glamorous fantasy reigned at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering spring ball last night. “My daughter saw me and said, ‘Mommy, you look so beautiful. You look like a princess,’ ” said Muffie Potter Aston, the event chair. “I said, ‘Remember that story of Cinderella?’ She said yes. I said, ‘At midnight, these jewels disappear.’ ” She wore a necklace by Bulgari, the evening’s corporate sponsor, of cabochon rubies, sapphires, and emeralds with diamonds. Elsewhere, chat centered on what else but “SATC.” “I loved the ‘Sex and the City’ movie. It was really real. In the Vogue magazine shoot, there was André [Leon Talley] and there was Plum [Sykes]. They really strove for authenticity,” said Andrew Saffir. Tory Burch countered that the fashion industry “has never been depicted in the right way. It’d be interesting to take ‘24,’ and look at it from a fashion standpoint.” But who would play Jack?—Blythe Sheldon

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My secret source for good book recommendations is “The World of Interiors.” Intentionally or not, they’ve really had their finger on the pulse of late: Two of their recent picks—”The English House” and “Ancient Egyptian Design”—called to mind, respectively, Zac Posen’s tennis-and-tea-inflected collection and Marchesa’s barge on the Nile-inspired cruise outing.—Laird Borrelli-Persson

Are diamonds really a girl’s best friend? “Oh absolutely, yes!” insisted Rashida Jones at a luncheon Thursday afternoon at the Chateau Marmont celebrating two of her favorite things: diamonds and designers. “My mom even believes they have some kind of special energy that omits a frenzy around you when you wear them.” The occasion was the unveiling of the A Diamond Is Forever exhibit, which pairs gems and red-carpet looks—a Van Cleef & Arpels butterfly brooch echoed the vibe of a Rodarte ensemble, Art Deco Neil Lane shapes adorned a Libertine look, and vintage Cartier pins complemented 3.1 Phillip Lim evening gowns. The jaw-dropper of the lot was Indian jeweler Munnu/The Gem Palace’s Bird ring, which was paired with Alabama Chanin. “I could never wear that,” squealed Jones of the three-carat design of a fair-sized bird perched upon a diamond band. “As much as I really love it, I’d be afraid I’d knock someone in the face with that thing!”—Linlee Allen

Photo: Linlee Allen

What with the recently opened Gucci flagship on Fifth Avenue, the just-opened Karen Millen boutique, and the soon-to-open Juicy Couture and Lilly Pulitzer stores, new retail locations are sprouting up all over New York this spring. At last night’s opening for TSE’s Soho outpost, host Julianne Moore told us, “I’ve lived here 20 years and I’ve never seen this level of commerce and real estate.” The upscale cashmere label has supported the flame-haired actress in a scholarship fund she began with other parents at her son’s school. We asked her if there any current trends she dislikes. “There’s always stuff you can’t wear, that I’m too old for,” she replied. Julianne Moore, too old? “Oh, hell, yeah. I tried on something from TSE. It was really, really cute but really, really short. At a certain point, you know, it’s just too short.” Times have changed. Where was her first New York apartment? “A tenement right by the Midtown Tunnel. Everyone thought I was a flight attendant.”—Blythe Sheldon

Photo: PatrickMcMullan.com

Although most of us are passingly familiar with "The Twilight Zone," it takes a real Rod Serling fanatic to name-drop "Night Gallery," the impresario’s seventies follow-up to his iconic TV hit. Artist Megan Pflug is that fanatic. "None of the images I used are taken from the show, but you know, I was Netflixing ‘Night Gallery’ for a while and stuff kind of filters in," explains Pflug of the oblique inspiration behind her new work, which goes on view today at the V&A gallery (her second solo show at the space) in Chinatown. Pflug’s works on paper and sculpture combine "disparate-seeming" types of art in order to create an opening for viewers to come up with their own interpretations of her references. "What I really like are images that can send people in a variety of directions, like a digital capture I made of a still from Roman Polanski’s ‘Repulsion.’ It’s just two hands, one young and one old, grasping together across the sky. And you might think, oh, Catherine Deneuve. Or you might think, Sistine Chapel, or you might think, cheesy religious greeting card. But really, who knows?"

—Maya SingerPhoto: Megan Pflug, courtesy of V&A

Blame this one on Marilyn. “Last fall I was watching a lot of Marilyn Monroe movies, especially “The Misfits,” and I’d been wearing a lot of twin sets and tight pencil skirts, which really is the inspiration behind this project,” says West Coast accessory doyenne Liz Goldwyn. The project in question is a collaboration with Opening Ceremony titled “Springtime Romance” and consists of an assortment of vintage hats, head bands, and sweater guards curated by Goldwyn. Yes, you read that correctly: sweater guards. “They’re so convenient! I used to wear them in high school, and they really are such a cute and easy accessory to have,” says Goldwyn, who spent the last six months sourcing the forties and fifties finds. The pieces are slated to hit the sales floor at Easter, and, according to Goldwyn, have “a delicate, sentimental spirit that perfectly matches what designers have done this season.” Speaking of those old MM films, any chance Goldwyn will be returning to the movie business? “I have a lot of top secrets, which I can’t really talk about yet, but let’s just say I’m heading back to Hollywood.” Watch this space.—Linlee Allen

Photo: Courtesy of Liz Goldwyn/Opening Ceremony

The buzz for Toni Garrn, the Hamburg-born beauty who was signed for not one, but two exclusive runway seasons at Calvin Klein, is really starting to build—she’s been snapped by both Marios—Testino and Sorrenti—as well as by supermodel-maker Steven Meisel.) Still, following in the footsteps of Natalia Vodianova means this 16-year-old (who’s currently enrolled in school and continues to live with her parents) has some pretty big shoes to fill. “I never really thought about modeling before,” Garrn, who was discovered on the street, told us when we checked in with her recently. “But I decided to try it out. So far everything has turned out well, so let’s see where it leads.” Nonchalance can be a plus in this industry, but Garrn does have a general idea of what she’s dealing with (see also: Kate Moss and Christy Turlington). “It would be great to follow such amazing models. I have been looking back at all the old campaign images—and I just cannot believe that I am in the campaign now! I would be happy to have even half the success of those other superstars.”—Derek
Blasberg

Photo: Marcio Madeira

I wasn’t sure if it was a Uniqlo casting or an art opening, but the cool-looking kids were out in force at photographer Ryan McGinley’s opening last night at Soho’s Team Gallery (in fact, for much of the night, the crowd spilled out onto the sidewalk—on both sides of the street). Men in really, really skinny pants; women with really, really messy hair; and a slew of familiar faces—Michael Stipe, John Waters, Dan Colen, photographer David Armstrong—all crammed in to get their first look at “I Know Where the Summer Goes,” McGinley’s scruffy, romantic (think sixties and seventies Playboy) images of beautiful young people prancing in fields, on cliffs and beaches, and in convertibles. The artist—who for the record looked handsome in a blue suit jacket—took the photos last summer when he trekked through the United States with a posse of 16 male and female models, three assistants, and a whopping 4,000 rolls of film. He came home with 150,000 photographs, and spent the next few months whittling them down to his favorite 50. “It’s making me want the warmer months to come back now,” McGinley said as he was swarmed by his legions of fans and admirers. “It was just getting warm this week until tonight. It figures that the last night of winter is my opening.”—Derek Blasberg

Photo: Ryan McGinley, courtesy of Team Gallery.