“Tonight is not about my book,” Dunham, sporting baby bangs and a tweed dress, told Vogue. Instead, she had invited friends and family for another draw: “You get to be inside Gloria Steinem’s home!"

On Wednesday evening, a crush of familiar faces gathered on West 13th Street to celebrate a new chapter for an American institution. The milestone? A just-launched, multi-season collaboration between Gap and Victoria Beckham—one that reinterprets the Gap archives through Beckham’s distinctly refined lens.

After searching the globe for standout talent ages nine to nineteen, the Youth America Grand Prix returned to New York with the best of the best—young dancers from leading companies around the world poised to share the stage with the “stars of today.”