Red Carpet Buzz: Leighton Meester

The New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions Gala last night, during which local literati and Hollywood A-listers alike exuded leonine pride for the Fifth Avenue institution. Its hallowed halls then erupted into a giant dance party for the Young Lions Benefit, an affair put on by its twenty- and thirtysomething patrons. The evening’s guests included Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, John Lithgow, Zoe Kazan, and Leighton Meester, who channeled her inner artist in a Prabal Gurung dress featuring a painterly print and oversize bloom. 

—Erin Clements

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