On September 19, Gia Giudice and her mother, Teresa, threw open the doors of Il Vero for a friends-and-family preview, months of construction, menu testing, and family debate finally landing on one very full room.

The gathering marked the inaugural in-person dinner for Fashion Forward, a private, invitation-only cultural House founded by Jordana Guimaraes and Christopher Hunt on a simple premise, that fashion doesn't evolve in isolation, it responds to art, business, media, film, sport, and the wider culture surrounding it.