Posted March 1, 200817 yr The newly remodeled Fendi store on the Avenue Montaigne was the place to be Friday night as Grammy winner Amy Winehouse performed a private concert for several hundred guests, including Karl Lagerfeld, who designs the Fendi collection, Sofia Coppola, Jessica Alba (looking very pregant in a black baby doll dress), Kayne West and the Olsen twins. The glittering store, on Paris's most fashionable shopping street, is filled to the brim with Fendi handbags and other accessories on the first floor while the second floor features women's ready to wear designs from Lagerfeld's Fendi spring line. But most of the evening's activites took place in an covered courtyard in the back, where waiters served hors d'ourves and champagne. (With France's new no-smoking laws in effect, smokers had to get a wristband to exit to an outdoor area near the front of the store.) At 11 p.m. the doors to an adjoining room, marked simply as "Fendi O", opened and guests stormed the entrance. It quickly filled up and burly security guards kept out latecomers. "My dad's the CEO of the company," one man begged in an attempt to get in without success. Those who made it in were mesmerized by Winehouse. Wearing her trademark beehive hairdo, she apologized that "I don't know anything about fashion" before launching into her set. For once, no one in the fashion crowd seemed to care.
