By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com
04:27 15 May 2023, updated 04:27 15 May 2023
Nineties It Girl Chloë Sevigny was blown away when whistleblower and transgender trailblazer Chelsea Manning attended her closet ‘Sale of the Century’ event in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood on Sunday.
The 48-year-old Oscar nominee planted a kiss on the cheek of the 35-year-old security consultant as she clutched a pink garment beside a rack of clothing from her storage unit.
Chelsea (born Bradley) was working as a US Army intelligence analyst when she shared nearly 750K classified/sensitive military and diplomatic documents with WikiLeaks, which led to her receiving a 35-year prison sentence in 2010.
President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence to seven years in 2013, but she was imprisoned again from 2019-2020 for contempt of court for refusing to testify in the US government’s case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Chloë – who boasts 1M Instagram followers – Instastoried a snap of the pair captioned: ‘Just wow.’
Vogue.com senior fashion writer Liana Satenstein helped organize Sevigny’s massive sale featuring everything from ‘#neverworns to everyday staples, Victorian to indie sleaze, designer and tons of denim.’
The New Englander showcased her eccentric style at the sale in a black puff-sleeved T-shirt dress featuring a sporty No. 5 with a matching purse and sandals.
Chloë – who designed the costumes in her ex-boyfriend Harmony Korine’s 1997 film Gummo – wore her highlighted blonde locks down for the fashion festivities and kept her make-up minimal behind her nude-frame shades.
And as it was Mother’s Day, Sevigny made sure to bring along her Gummy Bear-loving three-year-old son Vanja from her three-year marriage to Karma Art Gallery director Siniša Mackovic.
The Poker Face guest star’s stylist Haley Wollens Instastoried a video of the long line wrapped ‘twice around the block’ full of people desperate to get on the second floor of 676 Broadway before 5pm.
‘So much joy and love! Will post more highlights when I recover and land in France Tuesday,’ Chloë wrote via Instastory.
‘Thanks to all the staff and people who came for the craziness, apologies about the line, we had no idea it would be so bonkers.’
One lucky fan got Sevigny to autograph a pair of her Chloë x Opening Ceremony clogs.
Fans can next catch the Proenza Schouler FW/23 catwalker as real-life fashion icon C. Z. Guest in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s decade-hopping Feud: Capote and the Women, which premieres later this year on FX.
The socialite (born Lucy Douglas Cochrane) was a muse to many having been painted by Diego Rivera, Salvador Dalí, Kenneth Paul Block, and Andy Warhol.
Legendary author Ernest Hemingway was best man at C. Z.’s 1947 wedding to polo champ Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were godparents of their two children.
Guest – who died, age 83, in 2003 – also happened to be friends with novelist and playwright Truman Capote.
‘Finally! I’ve been wanting to play a glamorous character since The Last Days of Disco and she was only like halfway glamorous. This was so much fun,’ Chloë told W Magazine last Thursday.
‘I read George Plimpton’s Truman Capote book. Slim Keith’s book. The Capote’s Women book, which the series is based on. Obviously Truman’s own books. I looked at endless photos of C. Z. online and different things people had written about her. There wasn’t a lot of video footage of her, strangely, but at first I was doing her accent to a tee.
‘I worked many hours. Ryan Murphy calls me up and says, “No one is going to believe that anyone talks like this.” She would switch between a British, Boston and New York accent in one breath. He was like, “I think this is too challenging.” So I ended up having to water it down a little bit.’
All eight episodes of the anthology series were directed by two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant with Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz serving as showrunner.
Baitz also adapted Laurence Leamer’s 2021 book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era.
The miniseries will cover the deadly 1976 fallout over Esquire publishing chapters from Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers – specifically a tell-all about his wealthy ‘swan’ gal pals titled La Côte Basque 1965.
Feud: Capote and the Women also features Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Treat Williams, Demi Moore, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald, and newcomer Ella Beatty.