Saget to Me! Bob the Lanky Comic Incongruous Presence at Zac Posen’s Soirée for Schools

Also on Monday, Nov. 5: socialites Coralie Charriol, Jennifer Creel and Olivia Palermo, along with the actress Lucy Liu, were wandering through the redesigned Royalton hotel’s Brasserie 44 at a benefit for the charity TeachersCount, inspecting donated silent-auction items, such as a handbag by Tinsley Mortimer. In other words, it was business as usual among New York’s glittering elite!

But who was this bewildered-looking tall fellow? Bob Saget? Ah, yes, currently appearing on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone. “I went to dinner with my girlfriend Michelle and some lovely friends and we stopped by,” he said, adding somewhat gratuitously: “I was talking to Mary Kate Olsen the other day, and she said, ‘What’s your girlfriend’s name?’ And I said, ‘Michelle.’ And she said, ‘Nice!’”

Mr. Saget was then spirited away by an associate. “I’m his handler, brother, lover,” the man said.

The evening’s host, designer Zac Posen, bounded in fashionably late. wearing a white hoodie sweatshirt, a red scarf (“Inuit, from Alaska,” he said) and a vintage seal-fur turban. “I celebrated part of Halloween in Montana and Wyoming, and it was freezing there,” he explained. “I was a Dada broken camera. I had broken camera parts that were distorted. Like a Jell-O mold of a brain on my head, a spelunker’s light underneath; I was wearing a silver Dior suit and had film footage all over me.” Surely this had confused the Bozeman locals? “People in Montana dress up really well!” Mr. Posen insisted. “Wal-Mart sells really good Halloween costumes.”

This was a belated after-party of sorts for the designer, whose fashion show this year was scheduled for the unfestive date of Sept. 11. But having graduated happily from the posh-bohemian private school St. Ann’s in Brooklyn, he also professed his impassioned dedication to the field of education. “Did you have any good teachers?” he asked the Transom. “It’s just an amazing cause.”