Mix any magazine release party with V1 Private Jets and the modish W New York Downtown Hotel and Residences, and the product is always a fashionable fete. We should have known better this Tuesday night, as we arrived to the Gradient Magazine launch party in our abysmal work garb, only to find a crowd of impossibly chic party-goers posing for Patrick McMullan on the red carpet. As Annabel Vartanian, Emma Snowdon-Jones, and "Gossip Girl" designer Abigail Lorick, put our outfits to shame with their frothy summer dresses, we are compelled to turn on our heels and head for home. But naturally, we are lured in to the downtown fashion parade, with the Patron sponsored bar persuading us to stay even later for the real fashion show, Michael Frido’s red carpet interviews for "Fame Is TV."