It’s exhausting to call only one noteworthy visitor who attended the Fourth of July White Get together hosted by the enterprise mogul Michael Rubin and his fiancé, the mannequin Camille Fishel, this yr. Tom Brady, Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Megan Fox, Drake and Emily Ratajkowski had been solely among the celebrities in brilliant white outfits who flitted in regards to 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 outdoors their property’s manicured hedges to catch a glimpse of the black SUVs ferrying A-listers who got here to fraternize on the tennis court docket, which had been remodeled 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 court docket.”
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, based on the Actual Deal. The property is flanked by views of Mecox Bay on one aspect, and ocean vistas on the opposite.
Some 400 folks made the lower for this yr’s visitor listing, 300 of whom acquired invites within the type of lithographs designed by the visible artist George Apartment. (Ms. Fishel met Mr. Apartment in 2013 as a hostess at a West Village restaurant the place Mr. Apartment was an everyday.) A a lot smaller group acquired invites that had been framed, personally painted and addressed by title by Mr. Apartment.
Those that RSVP-ed acquired a crisp, personalised pair of white Air Jordan 1 Low colorway sneakers, a collaboration between Nike and the rapper Travis Scott, produced particularly for get together company. Mr. Rubin, 51, is the previous co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and the founder and chief government of Fanatics, the Amazon-like attire firm and one-stop store for sports activities merchandise.
“Don’t puke on these,” a word contained in the sneakers’ field learn. “Not for resale … I do know who you might be.”
White events have earned a fame for lavish extravagance for the reason that late 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 get together 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 folks supplied $1 million to purchase their means into their white get together this yr, including that one particular person supplied $5 million. Sadly for determined partygoers, nobody should purchase their means in.
“We make a joke that it’s 400 of our closest buddies coming over to catch up,” Ms. Fishel mentioned.
The visitor listing is a part of what has fueled curiosity within the personal get together, which pulls well-known folks from varied industries — effective arts, sports activities, enterprise, movie, style and music — none of whom are allowed to deliver entourages. It’s the form of setting the place Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake may casually sing alongside to Usher, one in all final yr’s performers.
This yr, company watched performances by Shaboozey, Mary J. Blige and Lil Wayne. Festivities started on Wednesday night, with a seashore soccer recreation between groups led by Mr. Brady and. C.J. Stroud, the quarterback for the Houston Texans. (Mr. Brady’s crew misplaced to Mr. Stroud’s.)
On Thursday, the get together 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 and so they don’t actually ever get this surroundings the place they’ll form of like, let unfastened,” mentioned Ms. Fishel, who, like a bride on her wedding ceremony day, had a number of white outfits for the get together. 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 had 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 yr.
Although the whale didn’t obtain an official invitation, Ms. Fishel hoped it would return, however no quantity of unique merchandise might court docket an encore efficiency.
“He didn’t come,” she mentioned in a telephone name on Friday morning, as preparations for subsequent yr’s get together had already begun.
