Inside Chanel’s Dinner With Gracie Abrams, Lily Allen and Connor Storrie

Directly throughout from Chateau Marmont, looming massive above Sunset Boulevard, is a billboard with the face of Gracie Abrams for a brand new Chanel marketing campaign that includes the home’s superb jewellery line Coco Crush.

It was no coincidence that Chanel chosen the famed Hollywood lodge for a starry marketing campaign celebration Wednesday night time. It was clearly deliberate months prematurely, identical to the professional Chanel touches in so lots of the Chateau’s corners. Like, within the storage with a neon Coco Crush signal or a classic convertible with Chanel license plates. Or the various rooms that hosted a revelers throughout a cocktail hour or for picture shoots and gossip periods between buzzy stars, singers, artists, actors, designers and stylists.

A crush of moments from the larger-than-life to the intimate might be felt from the cobblestone driveway to the velvet curtain-draped eating room that hosted a dinner and piano-side efficiency by Lily Allen. Even Abrams had some expertise to share from the awe to the small. “Oh my god, the billboard. Holy shit, I know,” she stated, trying over towards the sky. “That is a big picture of my face right there.” She was recent from a quiet and reflective New Year’s Eve. “We did a burning of wishes for the new year. Secret resolutions and hopes for loved ones.”

Abrams, in Chanel threads and items from Coco Crush, stated she was honored to be the trigger for celebration. “I’ve enjoyed this campaign process so much and wearing these pieces because whether it’s on stage or at home in my day-to-day life, it’s very comfortable and just feels like me,” she defined. ““I appreciate so much what Chanel is doing in this very moment and they people they are inviting in.”

Chanel welcomed previous the velvet ropes an extended listing of stars and a sure phenomenon from Heated Rivalry who occurred to be thee crush of the night time: Connor Storrie. “We met upstairs. Everyone wants to meet you,” Tessa Thompson stated in addressing dinner friends earlier than dessert (and following plates of branzino and rib-eye) as she eyed Storrie on the important desk within the middle of the room. “Here’s your chance.”

Plenty of individuals took that likelihood as Storrie, recent from saying the Actor Award nominations earlier within the day, fielded a gentle stream of selfie requests and compliments for his work as Ilya Rozanov reverse Hudson Williams’ Shane Hollander within the Jacob Tierney-created sequence, which turned a licensed phenomenon over the vacation break. While Williams was experiencing Harry Styles-like pandemonium outdoors New York’s 30 Rock for a taping of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Storrie was tucked away contained in the movie star hideout catching up with Abrams (who positioned their picture because the No. 1 slide in her Instagram carousel), Maggie Rogers, Conan Gray and others like “the most famous person in the room,” whispered one attendee.

Other than eyeing Storrie, Thompson had official duties she accepted solely moments earlier than by toasting Abrams and introducing Allen. And she nailed it.

“Tonight you have the chance to meet people that you probably have a little Coco Crush on or that you admire and I love that. I had the chance to do that many times over tonight. One of those people is the extraordinary Gracie Abrams. We should raise a glass and toast her for being the new face of Coco Crush. She is indeed most crush worthy,” she stated earlier than turning her consideration to Allen and her critically acclaimed new album West End Girl. “I recently slid into someone’s DMs, which I hadn’t done in a while. It’s cool to do it. Everyone’s making their in-and-out lists in 2026 so slide into more DMs. I did so because I listened to this record and I listened to it in the way that I used to listen to records, which is front to back, dedicated. I didn’t do anything else. I was late to the party and I listened to this record in bed alone and I was so transported into the world of her experiences into her amazing, beautiful, brilliant, brave mind.”

Those experiences have been splashed throughout the globe as fodder for numerous articles as Allen reportedly wrote the album impressed by the dissolution of her marriage (in very NSFW methods) to actor David Harbour. Even with, once more, the larger-than-life narrative, Allen delivered a most intimate and at occasions cheeky efficiency of such songs as “Pussy Palace,” “Madeline” and “Tennis.”

Before the latter, she stated, “Luckily, they are not based on real life experiences and these things definitely did not happen at this hotel.”

When it was over, one of many night time’s boldfaced names stated, “It felt like watching a therapy session. I was mesmerized.”

Many individuals have been, whether or not it was the music, the second, the story or the Storrie of all of it. Speaking of a great story, Thompson had the perfect one for a way she was going to finish her night by ducking into a comfy lodge suite to look at her new Netflix present, His & Hers, reverse Jon Bernthal. “I have friends coming here to watch it with me upstairs at midnight and I’m so excited. I’ve never watched something in real time that I’m on and I’m nervous,” admitted the Hedda star. “I have seen it because I produced the show, so of course I saw the cuts, but it’ll be very special tonight to watch at midnight with some friends.”