There’s no reason Irene can’t pack a punch – and look fabulous.
Tony Hamptons residents yesterday got ready to face the fury of Hurricane Irene the only way they know how: with an upscale fashion sale celebrating the storm.
A cheeky Hurricane Fashion Sale was held on the broad porch of a store in a Colonial-style home in Amagansett just hours before Irene’s wind and rain were about to hit Long Island.
As some Hamptons residents shopped, the areas celebrities refused to let the storm stop their end of summer getaways to the millionaire’s playground.
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Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Alec Baldwin, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Gwyneth Paltrow and Christy Turlington are just some of the bold-faced names who fled to Long Island this weekend.
“We’re staying,” Bill Clinton told The Post. “Hillary and I have been watching for the last few days, and we’re just doing what we’re supposed to do. I’m more worried about the people in the low-lying areas that could get flooding.”
The Clintons are staying in a rented estate on exclusive Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton. The former president enjoyed a belated 65th-birthday lunch yesterday afternoon with his nephew Simon Rodham at Babette’s, where the crowd sang for him.
Other celebs were similarly unperturbed.
“I’m going to stay here,” Baldwin told The Post. He and his girlfriend, 27-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, spent yesterday afternoon stocking up at Waldbaum’s.
“I bought some fish, and I’m actually going to cook,” he said. “Which is a phenomenon. It’s like a lunar eclipse.”
Supermodel Turlington went jogging along Lily Pond Lane yesterday morning. She told The Post that she and her family — filmmaker husband Ed Burns and their two children — had been evacuated from their place in TriBeCa, where Paltrow and husband, Coldplay rocker Chris Martin, also have a place.
“We figured we should come out here and ride it out,” she said. “We’re staying put.”
Timberlake and Biel arrived in East Hampton on Friday night — as some Hamptons denizens decided to take their leave, including longtime resident Paul McCartney.
In East Hampton yesterday morning, luxury shops such as Elie Tahari were packed, even as employees began boarding up windows with plywood.
By about 3 p.m. however, residents got serious. Shops, hotels and restaurants began shuttering, and supermarkets and hardware stores were stripped of essentials: batteries, matches and beer.