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"I love a good deal, and I love a good party. So when I heard about last week&amp;#039;s event for the launch of Hunters Alley, One Kings Lane&amp;#039;s newest online marketplace that connects design-obsessed buyers and sellers I was a little heartbroken to be all the way across the country from the Los Angeles party. Of course, stars like Christina Hendricks, Ellen Pompeo, Jaime King, and tastemakers such as Claiborne Swanson Frank and Sophia Amoruso managed to have a great time without me. To simulate the experience of shopping Hunters Alley online, each guest was given a token that they could exchange for one of the many items on sale at the event. &amp;quot;We wanted this event to have an authentic feel so we only invited people we knew were already fans of our two brands\u2014we didn&amp;#039;t want it to be one of those parties with celebrities who have no connection are just milling around,&amp;quot; says Andrea Stanford, HA&amp;#039;s General Manager. For example, Christina Hendricks. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a huge fan\u2014she&amp;#039;s shopped on both sites,&amp;quot; says Stanford. Does that mean that next time we log in to buy, say, a brass elephant, that the seller may be the real-life Joan Holloway? Possibly. &amp;quot;She hasn&amp;#039;t sold pieces yet but she said she&amp;#039;d love to!&amp;quot; says Stanford (we&amp;#039;ll be keeping an eye out, Ms. Hendricks.)  A glimpse at one of the evening&amp;#039;s vignettes More highlights from the evening? Stanford tells us that the celebrities and designers were dashing around between the several vignettes to make sure they spent their coin wisely (Jamie King apparently had some regret, waking up the next morning with her mind still on a mirror she missed), Ellen Pompeo and OKL co-founder Susan Feldman discussing a possible trip together (perhaps a Pompeo-curated Container Sale is on the horizon?), and Hendricks telling Kathryn Ireland how much she loved both seasons of Million Dollar Decorators.  Scroll through to see more photos from the event, and then tell us: Will you be heading to Hunters Alley for your own shopping party?   Pompeo with co-founder Feldman  Another vignette from the evening  Whitney Port, photographed between browsing the wares "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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