On the eve of the 71st Golden Globe Awards, DuJour magazine’s Jason Binn, along with Co-Editor in Chief Nicole Vecchiarelli hosted a special event in honor of Lupita Nyong’o, Golden Globe nominee and cover girl of DuJour’s Great Performances issue.

The Herringbone, Mondrian on Sunset Boulevard was the posh setting where VIP guests gathered to catch a glimpse of the beautiful newcomer whose riveting performance in the Golden Globe-nominated film 12 Years A Slave has garnered her a slew of award nominations and, in the words of DuJour Co-Editor Nicole Veccharelli, made her a natural choice to grace the cover of the publication’s Great Performances issue.

“After more than a year of featuring some majorly iconic faces on our cover – Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Robert De Niro, to name a few – it felt right to consider a new faces, someone well on her way to becoming a person of that rank and prestige, and to celebrate the optimism she must feel at this moment in her life.”

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DuJour is a quarterly lifestyle publication for the highly affluent, chronicling the vibrant worlds of the wealthiest and most inspiring subjects in the world. The magazine, available in print to an audience of 250,000, online at www.dujour.com, and mobile to members of Gilt Groupe, the ground-breaking retail site, and at Hudson Media newsstands in select markets nationally.

Distribution amounts to a controlled circulation of over three million.

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Created by Jason Binn, DuJour amasses the talents of Co-editors-in-chief Keith Pollock and Nicole Vecchiarelli and a brilliant roster of editors, writers, stylists and photographers.

DuJour brings to the forefront stories about fashion, design, food, travel, art, politics et al., with local-market focuses, issue to issue.

The magazine has won such prestigious awards as: Ad Week 2013 Hot List Reader’s Choice – Hottest Newcomer, Min – Editorial & Design Awards 2013 – Best Launch (Print), Min – Editorial & Design Awards 2013 – Best Website, 2012 Webby Award for Best Home/Welcome Page, and The Folio: 100.

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Actors Tara Reid, Michelle Dockery, Joy Bryant, Rocsi Diaz, Mira Sorvino and Natasha Henstridge were among Ms. Nyong’o’s peers and admirers who turned out to toast her, along with funnyman Marlon Wayans and her 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen.

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