Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs The desperation of event planners to secure Collingwood players was detailed by The Age last year, but at least they were premiers then.Salmin wore Melbourne designer Alin Le’ Kal, who created a jewel-blue dress which she described as “mermaid tulle”.Moore did not have quite the same options – he’s 203 centimetres tall.“I’m just wearing a custom P Johnson tuxedo,” he said. “Unfortunately, at my size, often my evening wear needs to be custom-made, so it’s a bit tough to shop around. Hopefully, I can be a nice backdrop to Dee’s blue, extravagant flowing dress.”Moore said being the backdrop was an important role. “Someone has to do it,” he said.Moore said he would head home early to be in good form for Saturday’s match against Port Adelaide.“And we’ll be eating lots of oysters, [from the roving oyster butlers] they’re a good source of iron,” Salmin said.Guests at the black tie event were served champagne from Moet & Chandon, along with “skinny” pink margaritas from Crown and its signature new restaurant Marmont.They wolfed down tempura chicken nuggets with caviar, hiramasa kingfish crudo and sourdough with chilled Spanish soup ajo blanco.Roaming “oyster butlers” shucked bivalves to order, and there was a burrata bar from Ugo and cheeses from the Prahran market’s Maker & Monger.Moore said he would head home early so he would be in good form for Saturday’s match.“And we’ll be eating lots of oysters – they’re a good source of iron,” Salmin said.Other attendees included: Travis Auld, chief executive of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation; corporation chair Martin Pakula; deputy chair and former governor Linda Dessau; Olympic champion Cathy Freeman; Lord Mayor Nick Reece; Mushroom Records boss Matt Gudinski; Sports Minister Steve Dimopoulos; and Nicole Piastri, mother of Aussie racing driver Oscar Piastri. They were joined by Olympic boxer Harry Garside, meteorologist Jane Bunn, former racing driver Mark Skaife, Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards boss Adrianne Sarkozy, and Moomba monarchs Sooshi Mango.All about the Instagram moment Glamour on the Grid attendees did not leave the perfect Instagram and TikTok moment to chance.Instead of waiting until their arrival at the event’s pit lane entrance, savvy invitees headed to styling suites to document their social media moments with controlled lighting.Stylist Alicia Marshall commandeered a suite of apartments next to the Albert Park track for her clients including Miss Universe Zoe Creed, Olympic swimmer Brianna Throssell and singer and musician Bonnie Anderson, who came to prominence by winning Australia’s Got Talent aged 12.Inside the styling suite for stylist Alicia Marshall: Zoe Creed in Alin Le’ Kal, Bonnie Anderson in Jason Grech, Alex Pike in Alin Le’ Kal, and Annabel Smith in Naomi Ji. Credit: Penny StephensIn previous years Anderson has performed at the annual bash but this year, she said, was “just all about the glamour and showing off the bump”.Anderson, four months pregnant, wore a body-hugging blue dress by designer Jason Grech. “It’s simple, but a wow moment,” she said.Crown Resorts took over the Glamour on the Grid sponsorship from Marriott Bonvoy and took full advantage, throwing open its doors to host Melbourne’s favourite crime fighter, Bec Judd, who got her glam on in advance. A troupe of stylists including Lana Wilkinson and Paul Versace, as well as hairdresser Joey Scandizzo, set up base camp in the villa to tend to Melebrities including swimming great Ariarne Titmus, influencer Rozalia Russian and model Inka Williams, the partner of Hollywood star Channing Tatum, don’t you know? We didn’t.Show-stopping fashionDesigner Alin Le’ Kal got a lot of attention dressing model Paris Bishop at last year’s Brownlow Medal – that gold dress!Similarly, his “million-dollar dress” was a showstopper last week at the Melbourne Fashion Festival.Now, he and Bishop are back, with a light pink frock from the fashion festival runway.“It should get a lot of attention. It was pulled from the fashion show. It contains ostrich features,” Le’ Kal told CBD. “It is just young and playful.“These types of events have become very serious, but we just need to remind everyone you are on a track. I feel Australian celebrities go to these events and wear gowns, and it is not necessary. Look as high-end as you like, but it doesn’t need to be a gown.”The so-called “million-dollar gown” at the fashion festival contained 96,000 crystals and weighed 150 kilograms.“It’s a showpiece, it’s not wearable,” said Le’ Kal. “It’s a piece of art.” Lando Norris’ commitment to the skivvyF1 driver Lando Norris got in some good conditioning for the warm weather expected at Albert Park over the next few days by wearing a black turtleneck top to a pre-race party for fragrance Ralph Lauren Red.The McLaren driver was steadfastly devoted to the sponsorship deal by wearing the skivvy to showcase the brand’s “purple” range, despite the 32-degrees temperature at the party at the Stokehouse restaurant in St Kilda, where it was so hot that one attendee fainted.Taking the heat: Lando Norris kept toasty warm in a skivvy at the Ralph Lauren event.Norris told the crowd driving an F1 car was “pretty warm”.“It’s probably like wearing another one of these turtlenecks,” he quipped. “It is very tough.”Norris’ teammate at McLaren is home-town hero Oscar Piastri, but Norris was quick to reject host Lauren Phillips’ suggestion this made him an honorary Australian.“I don’t feel the support because they are all supporting for Oscar normally,” he said.Norris couldn’t resist a quick competitive dig at his teammate.“Because I’ve beaten him, so it doesn’t help these kind of things,” he said.Hot off the runwayThe Melebrity who can demonstrate the biggest major events stamina is always keenly contested, and an early contender is Caroline “Ralph” Ralphsmith, chief executive of Melbourne Fashion Festival. She spent every night last week attending twice-nightly runways at the festival centrepiece at the Royal Exhibition Building.And after a few days respite, Ralphsmith, accompanied by her husband, Dion Werbeloff, chief executive of the Gandel Group, was ready for the grand prix.“I am wearing a fantastic and amazing outfit from local designer Fool in Greville Street,” she told CBD before Glamour on the Grid.“It is hot off the runway – one of the things we showed last week.”Ralphsmith was in good spirits after the end of the festival. “We did leave it on such a high; we felt so good at it,” Ralphsmith said.“There’s something wonderful about going to a gorgeous Melbourne event that you are not responsible for. If something goes wrong, that’s someone else’s problem.”Model Rebecca Harding, grand prix ambassador and partner of comedian Andy Lee, also looked to be thoroughly enjoying the party. Of course she was. The grand prix is the only event in Melbourne more noisy than the couple’s infamous Hawthorn home renovations, previously covered in CBD.Harding said the renovations were proceeding well and while it had been “a bit frustrating” for the couple’s neighbours, they were on board now.“They’ve all been very understanding about the renovations,” she said. On reviewing their plans Harding was in for a shock from fiancé comedian Andy Lee.“I never thought I’d hear the words come out of Andy’s mouth, but he said that he was worried that our wardrobe was too small,” she said.Also expected to attend the F1 party (although not spotted by us) was Melbourne Fashion Festival board member Kallie Blauhorn and her husband, Andy Penn, chair of Visit Victoria and former head of Telstra.
