MODEL BEHAVIOR

Half Rothschild garden party, half Studio 54 revisited, the very private birthday bash newsprint mogul Peter M. Brant gave for his model wife, Stephanie Seymour, at their 350-acre White Birch Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut, gets my vote for party of the year. After drinks beside a pond outlined in candles, and dinner on the white-columned portico of Bront's Mount Vernon-style mansion, which is filled with Warhols, Clementes, and Basquiats, the 150 guests-a neo-54 mix of tycoons, artists, politicians, movie stars, polo players, and supermodels-ambled down the rolling lawn to a pink-and lavender tent designed by Robert Isabell, where 70s soul mas ter Al Green, who is also a reverend, had everyone from Spike Lee to Alfonse D'Amato shouting and shimmying to everything From "Jesus Will Fix It" to "Love and Hap piness" until the wee hours. The artist Julian Schnabel even joined Green in a deep-basso rendition of "[Sittin' on] the Dock of the Bay."

BOB COLACELLO