Dinner With Muckety-Mucks

'I had tears in my eyes!' exclaimed Doutzen Kroes at Chloé's Hamptons pop-up this weekend. No, she wasn't welling with motherly joy about her much publicized pregnancy—it was her native Holland's crushing defeat in the World Cup. "I was there, in South Africa," said the glowing super, now back in the U.S.A. to co-host the South Fork store's opening bash. "It was so sad…I really thought Holland was going to win." Well, better luck in 2014—and until then, there is that maternal bliss to look forward to. "I feel amazing," she continued. "I've had no nauseousness, nothing. Now I'm getting a little bump, so I know I'm pregnant." If she had one, you couldn't see it—but perhaps she had her flowing Chloé dress to thank for that. Behind her, a crush of socials milled about, ogling items from Chloé's main line and See by Chloé; East Hampton is the first standalone Chloé store in the U.S. to offer the secondary collection. According to chief executive Ralph Toledano, it won't be the last.

After Chloé's cocktail hour, it was time for dinner: Dinner for Schmucks, to be exact. The Cinema Society, Hugo Boss, and Vanity Fair were hosting an East End screening of the new comedy. Had star Paul Rudd had any real-life run-ins with lousy tablemates? Reflecting on a less-than-successful dinner party he'd once hosted, the actor was all comic self-deprecation: 'I thought everybody was pretty cool, so if that's the case, clearly it would make me a schmuck.' In his defense, sometimes a few good schmucks can liven up the mood. 'Usually they're the most fun dinner parties,' co-star Lucy Punch said of evenings spent opposite utter boors. 'It makes for fun conversation afterwards.' Even the litigious can set down their swords for the duration of a meal. 'We had a dinner party once where we invited two people who were in the process of suing each other,' recalled Reed Krakoff, his wife Delphine at his side. 'We didn't know it at the time. They were actually sitting across from each other.' No such hazardous seating at legendary adman Jerry Della Femina's beachside manse, where the assembled—including Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Christie Brinkley, and Katie Couric—adjourned following the film for partying and dinner. Sans schmucks, of course.

—Matthew Schneier