Beverly Hills, CA- The bash Vanity Fair co-hosted with Dior on Monday night for the magazine’s Hollywood Issue provided an opportunity for revelry that’s been largely missing from the writers’ strike-clouded run-up to the Academy Awards.

While not nearly as opulent as the magazine’s legendary post-Oscar bash, which was scrapped due to the strike, the dinner — planned just six weeks in advance — was an elegant, low-key affair held at BondSt restaurant in the recently opened Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills. And the mood was festive, with America Ferrera, Ginnifer Goodwin and Zoe Saldana (three of the Dior-dressed starlets on the inside of the issue’s foldout cover) mingling and chatting with other guests. Unfortunately those guests didn’t include the most prominent quartet of the cover girls — Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel and Anne Hathaway.

“I may be thin, but I have a big booty,” said Saldana. “Dior is made to fit every woman’s shape, and the dresses fit beautifully. True fashion is not just about expensive clothes and names, it has to be more than that, a reflection of culture.”

Sanaa & Zoe (c) Donato Sardella