It’s onerous to call only one noteworthy visitor who attended the Fourth of July White Occasion hosted by the enterprise mogul Michael Rubin and his fiancé, the mannequin Camille Fishel, this 12 months. Tom Brady, Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Megan Fox, Drake and Emily Ratajkowski have been solely a few of the celebrities in brilliant white outfits who flitted concerning the couple’s sprawling Lengthy Island property on Thursday, rubbing elbows and producing content material galore.
It was the fourth version of Mr. Rubin and Ms. Fishel’s annual Independence Day bash within the Hamptons the place bodycon attire reign supreme. Paparazzi had lined up exterior their property’s manicured hedges to catch a glimpse of the black SUVs ferrying A-listers who got here to fraternize on the tennis courtroom, which had been reworked into an ultraexclusive nightclub for the occasion. Reporters, together with from The New York Instances, weren’t permitted to attend, and organizers employed their very own photographer.
“Think about strolling into Liv Miami,” Ms. Fishel, 33, mentioned in an interview. “You don’t even know you’re on a tennis courtroom.”
The Gatsby-esque soiree was held on the 2-acre, 8,000-square-foot oceanfront mansion in Water Mill, N.Y., that Mr. Rubin purchased for $50 million in 2021, in keeping with the Actual Deal. The property is flanked by views of Mecox Bay on one aspect, and ocean vistas on the opposite.
Some 400 individuals made the reduce for this 12 months’s visitor checklist, 300 of whom acquired invites within the type of lithographs designed by the visible artist George Condominium. (Ms. Fishel met Mr. Condominium in 2013 as a hostess at a West Village restaurant the place Mr. Condominium was a daily.) A a lot smaller group acquired invites that have been framed, personally painted and addressed by identify by Mr. Condominium.
Those that RSVP-ed acquired a crisp, customized pair of white Air Jordan 1 Low colorway sneakers, a collaboration between Nike and the rapper Travis Scott, produced particularly for social gathering visitors. Mr. Rubin, 51, is the previous co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and the founder and chief govt of Fanatics, the Amazon-like attire firm and one-stop store for sports activities merchandise.
“Don’t puke on these,” a observe contained in the footwear’ field learn. “Not for resale … I do know who you’re.”
White events have earned a popularity for lavish extravagance for the reason that late Nineteen Nineties, when Sean Combs started throwing his personal annual bash — together with one to which he introduced an genuine copy of the Declaration of Independence as his date. He hasn’t hosted a white social gathering since 2009.
Mr. Rubin is a uncommon determine who can corral the richest and most well-known of the wealthy and well-known into one place. Representatives for Mr. Rubin and Ms. Fishel mentioned that a number of individuals supplied $1 million to purchase their method into their white social gathering this 12 months, including that one individual supplied $5 million. Sadly for determined partygoers, nobody should buy their method in.
“We make a joke that it’s 400 of our closest associates coming over to catch up,” Ms. Fishel mentioned.
The visitor checklist is a part of what has fueled curiosity within the non-public social gathering, which attracts well-known individuals from numerous industries — wonderful arts, sports activities, enterprise, movie, style and music — none of whom are allowed to carry entourages. It’s the sort of setting the place Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake may casually sing alongside to Usher, one in all final 12 months’s performers.
This 12 months, visitors watched performances by Shaboozey, Mary J. Blige and Lil Wayne. Festivities started on Wednesday night, with a seaside soccer sport between groups led by Mr. Brady and. C.J. Stroud, the quarterback for the Houston Texans. (Mr. Brady’s staff misplaced to Mr. Stroud’s.)
On Thursday, the social gathering began with 5 p.m. cocktails on the deck, however there was no signature cocktail. “This isn’t a marriage,” Ms. Fishel mentioned.
Company posed for photographs and snacked on king salmon, fatty tuna and blue crab from Nobu; slices of Lucali’s margherita pizza; and meatballs from Rao’s, the Italian restaurant in East Harlem, amongst one of many hardest reservations within the nation.
“It’s messy and enjoyable, and these artists are there they usually don’t actually ever get this setting the place they’ll sort of like, let unfastened,” mentioned Ms. Fishel, who, like a bride on her marriage ceremony day, had a number of white outfits for the social gathering. Because the night wore on, she modified from a sheer Laquan Smith ensemble right into a corset and For Love & Lemons skirt.
As partygoers left — whether or not at 2 a.m. or 6 a.m. — they have been handed a bag of bagels from Goldberg’s, the Hamptons breakfast mainstay.
There was one elusive visitor — and occasional neighbor — particularly that Ms. Fishel had needed to see: A humpback whale that made a particular, fleeting look final 12 months.
Although the whale didn’t obtain an official invitation, Ms. Fishel hoped it would return, however no quantity of unique merchandise may courtroom an encore efficiency.
“He didn’t come,” she mentioned in a cellphone name on Friday morning, as preparations for subsequent 12 months’s social gathering had already begun.
