Bicoastal fashion stylist/archivist Irene Albright is the stuff of fashion legend: she’s built two mega sized fashion archives of evening wear, NY and Bel Air, over the years, renting out thousands of designer gowns (L.A. alone has 60,000 pieces) per year for photo shoots, red carpet, and now, weddings. Last week, she threw a hybrid fashion show/sundown soiree at the 7300 square foot luxury fashion library in the Bel Air sky, for one of her favorite gown/cocktail dress designers, Aussie Toni Maticevski. His austere but beautiful shapes in uniquely created  textures are not just flattering, but almost unbearingly elegant. “When I first saw Toni’s dresses, I wanted to buy all of them for our archive!,” she laughed. “Once I went to his fashion week showroom in Paris a little late – ‘well, we’ve still got a number of gowns left,’ his staff told me. I said, ‘I’ll take all of them!'”

Now the Albright Fashion Library has a large archive of Maticevski’s, the older ones as chic as the new. Lithe models in sleek ballerina buns showed off in his  wonders of construction, voguing to a dj in front of the sprawling home’s pool area, with a dramatic sundown view of all of L.A. as background. Every single one met with sighs of “ooohs” and “ahhs” by the beautiful turned-out crowd, including L.A. fashion insiders as Paul Cavaco, Marilyn Heston, Amber Sakai, Mary Fontamillas – and little old me (she said, immodestly).

For jaded former New York fashion world veterans like us to be gushing (ok, under the radar) takes a lot. Meanwhile, Irene, in a chic black Maticevski leather midi skirt, looked awesome, particularly for someone who’d flown in that morning from a long fashion buying trip in Paris. A most dapper Maticevski, wearing a dashing jacket of his own making, flew in from even further just for the occasion. “I love working with Irene,” he smiled.”When she bought all those gowns from us years ago, I knew she was the real deal. I’m proud to be among her archives.” “And trust me, his dresses prove very popular,” she added.” Now you know where you can rent one – or more.