At Valentino ’s Los Angeles party, the view required leaning in.

Inside the Marciano Art Foundation, a creative crowd — including Teyana Taylor, Patricia Arquette, Tate McRae, Sombr, Maude Apatow and Dree Hemingway — gathered around a glowing Kaiserpanorama installation at the center of the room, peering through small windows to take it in.

On the other side, a recreation of Alessandro Michele ’s “Specula Mundi” couture show in Paris unfolded, replacing live models with a continuous visual sequence of images from a new book of the same name by British photographer Mark Borthwick.

“I mean, I’d love to encourage the notion that our spirits guided us together and brought us together.…