Go Inside The Lunchbox Fund's Celebrity-Packed 10th Anniversary Celebration
Observer
Zachary Weiss"This is a wonderful New York crowd," Olivia Wilde said last night at the Prada-sponsored benefit dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of Topaz Page-Green's Lunchbox Fund. "I get to see a lot of old friends. It's a really nice vibe here." Ms. Wilde's "old friends" included directors Spike Jonze and Paul Haggis, and Marchesa
designer Georgina Chapman.
"What Topaz has done is amazing," Ms. Chapman said of Ms. Page-Green, who started the charity to help townships in her native South Africa. "It takes a lot of courage and a lot of hard work to launch a charity. She's such an amazing person, and such a great girl with a wonderful spirit, and a passionate energy about what she does. She's good at scheduling too, but doesn't make it feel like that." Ms. Chapman was just one of a storm of notable guests who arrived in rapid succession for cocktails and dinner at the newly opened eponymous eatery by Chef Gabriel Kreuther.
Along with preparing the evening's meal for 75 guests, Chef Kreuther served as a co-chair for the evening too. He was joined on the board by Aimee Mullins, Jordan Wolfson, Joaquin Phoenix, who was unable to attend thanks to a last minute cold, and Ms. Page-Green's longtime friend, Liv Tyler.
"Topaz is one of my oldest girlfriends, and I love her very much," Liv Tyler cooed. "It's like going to high school with someone, and them saying, 'I want to build schools for children in South Africa where I grew up, and make sure they all have healthy meals.' To hear them say that, and then they actually do it, you're like 'Wow!' Then
they have all of these incredible people show up and support them. It's beautiful." The two met when they were in their early twenties, though Ms. Tyler declined to say how or where they first intersected. "We met when we were probably 22 or 23," she said with a smirk, "Now I'm much older than that."