TriBeCa Ball 2009 Draws Clinton, Timberlake, Schreiber & More (PHOTOS)

TriBeCa Ball 2009 Draws Clinton, Timberlake, Schreiber & More (PHOTOS)

A mix of politics, entertainment, and fashion elite came out Monday night in support of perhaps the one thing that unites all three worlds: the naked body.

Bill Clinton, Justin Timberlake, and Liev Schreiber — all without their better halves — headlined the TriBeCa Ball Monday night, held to sponsor the New York Academy of Art. The NYAA is an educational and cultural institution dedicated to the advancement of figure drawing, painting, and sculpture, and it was the first graduate school in the United States devoted exclusively to the study of the human figure.

Amid paintings and sculptures of nude bodies, fashion legends like Nicole Miller and Kate Spade joined with newly minted stars like Jason Wu to celebrate the Academy.

The event honored Schreiber and wife Naomi Watts (in Milan for Fashion Week), hotelier Andre Balazs, and "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi, among others.

WWD's "The Eye" reports that Clinton was the guest that had the crowd most abuzz.

"His presence caused more furor than any amount of Champagne ever could among the group of usually blasé New Yorkers," they wrote. "His Secret Service detail were the only ones who were not in a tizzy. Said one, 'That guy's a chick magnet.'"

See photos below, courtesy Patrick McMullan:

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