Jane Fonda, Gwyneth Paltrow and Katy Perry Attend DVF’s Oscars Lunch

Where can you discover an Oscar-winning actress chatting up considered one of the world’s greatest pop stars?

Well, during Oscars week in Los Angeles, that’s just about anyplace — however there’s no place fairly like Diane von Furstenberg’s annual luncheon celebrating the yr’s feminine Oscar nominees.

This yr’s backyard social gathering was significantly star-studded, with the likes of “Marty Supreme” star Gwyneth Paltrow (the aforementioned Oscar winner) catching up with Katy Perry, only to be interrupted by producer and philanthropist Nicole Avant Sarandos, then Demi Moore and lastly Tracee Ellis Ross. Within minutes — and with the addition of posh jewellery designer Jennifer Meyer to the huddle — some of the business’s most high-profile entertainers and entrepreneurs had assembled on the well-manicured garden.

Oh, and while this A-list group caught up with one another, von Furstenberg stood just round the nook posing with legendary actress and activist Jane Fonda.

A lineup of expertise like this — plus Anita Hill, Quinta Brunson, Tig Notaro, Fran Drescher, Lisa Ann Walter, Grace van Patten, Sabrina Impacciatore, Rachel Zoe, Elaine Welteroth, Rita Wilson, Diane Warren, Luna Blaise, Maggie Baird, Rozzi and “Sinners” Oscar nominees Ruth E. Carter and Autumn Durald Arkapaw — actually offers new that means to the time period “power lunch.”

For the last 13 years, von Furstenberg has hosted the celebration at her Beverly Hills mansion. This yr, she famous, all of the nominees bought a gold sticker upon arrival to put on as a badge of honor. It was a last-minute thought, however a key one.

“It’s very important that you know who everybody is, because then you make new friends,” von Furstenberg said, taking the microphone as the crowd sat down for lunch, curated by chef Jane Coxwell. “You are all in the same industry, an industry that is not necessarily pro-women.”

That actuality makes occasions like this one significantly key, the dressmaker explained, with Fonda — sporting her new signature “Resist” t-shirt — seated at her proper hand. (Fonda was a co-host at this yr’s luncheon alongside Moore, Avant Sarandos and Ross, and an viewers together with her was equally as coveted as a selfie with fellow attendee Paris Hilton.)

“[I thought] being kind was always being stupid, but lately I discovered the power of [it],” she said. “Kindness is like a currency, and it compounds like money.”

And women are uniquely positioned to make that forex rely.

“Women always have the solutions, but women always have the power of seduction. And seduction is not only about showing your legs — although if you have good ones, you can,” von Furstenberg quipped, as the crowd chuckled. “It is about making other people believe that your ideas and your solutions are theirs. And right now, we have to use all the tools,” she continued. “Because right now is a time that we need strength, we need belief, we need values, and the best way to pass on the message is by kindness.”

Scroll below for an inside have a look at the star-studded event.