Argentine hotelier Alan Faena and billionaire Len Blavatnik celebrated the upcoming opening of their ultra-luxury development and hotel Faena Miami Beach with an elegant dinner, co-hosted by director Baz Luhrmann and his Oscar-winning wife Catherine Martin, who are creative consultants on the project.
Guests at Wednesday’s beachside dinner included Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Bruce Weber, Tommy and Dee Hilfiger, Dylan Lauren, Andre Balazs, Linda Evangelista and Alexander Gilkes.
Chris Burch, an early investor in Faena’s first hotel project in Buenos Aires, told the crowd, “I was the fortunate man … that gave a little bit of money to Alan in the beginning, to help create Faena in Argentina, and I was paid back a hundred times, with the most beautiful development that everybody said would fail … I want to thank Alan for bringing the Faena vision to Miami.”
Reported buyers of apartments in Faena Miami Beach’s high-end 18-story tower include Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein and Apollo’s Leon Black.