Well, she made it. Throughout Thursday night's dinner to celebrate the opening of the Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, guests debated whether the legendarily late and loose Amy Winehouse had made her flight from London and would be up to singing a few ditties. Dasha Zhukova, the Russian entrepreneur and current flame of wealthy businessman Roman Abramovich (he reportedly picked up Winehouse's alleged $2 million invoice), had confirmed all with the beehived crooner the day before. Still, the majority consensus was: "We'll believe it when we see it." Believe it, though. She was there and she was good. The Grammy winner, who's been playing to an audience of policemen and an incarcerated husband lately, took the stage in a printed cocktail dress—which spent the the evening being yanked to mid-thigh in Winehouse's trademark shimmy—and high heels (no bloody ballet flats here!). She even sang an encore for the international A-list crowd (a Gagosian here, a Santo Domingo there). "She is terrific, truly," said Eugenie Niarchos, who sat front-row during the intimate concert, just next to the singer's water bottles. "Totally lucid, too."
—Derek Blasberg
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