A fashionable life: Rosetta Getty: when the L.A. designer rounds up her a-list friends for a chic evening at home, her fashions are the hit of the party.

Harper's Bazaar, March, 2007 by Hontz, Jenny

Rosetta Getty is nervous. Kirsten Dunst, Courteney Cox, and Joaquin Phoenix are among the guests due to arrive any minute for an intimate dinner gathering on the outdoor patio of her Los Angeles home, and it's been raining on and off all day, with unseasonably frigid temperatures.

The party is a celebration of her new niche fashion label, Riser Goodwyn. A former model and designer of children's clothing, Getty, 37, first tried her hand at a women's line seven years ago, but life intervened. One marriage to actor Balthazar Getty, 32, and three kids later, she produced and showed her first collection last year. Tonight her friends will model dresses from her Fall 2007 line.

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