The Salma Hayek Kering Foundation dinner raised more than $5 million for women’s organisations on Thursday, 10 September 2026, filling The Pool in Manhattan with about as much star power as one room can hold.
The fifth annual Caring for Women dinner is the Kering Foundation’s big night, as reported by Vanity Fair, and it pulls a guest list that reads like a group chat nobody would decline.
Salma Hayek Pinault co-hosted alongside her husband, François-Henri Pinault.
Who showed up to the Salma Hayek Kering Foundation dinner
The co-hosting line-up ran deep, taking in Pamela Anderson, Simone Biles, Dakota Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Nacho Figueras and the artist Lorna Simpson.
Colman Domingo handled master of ceremonies duties, which is roughly the safest pair of hands available for that job.
Biles’s appearance carries its own weight. The gymnast was hospitalised in June 2026 after a health scare, then spent the weeks afterwards fielding an online pile-on over how she chose to recover, so a night about women’s safety is a pointed place to turn up.
Caring for Women started as a way to put the Kering group’s cultural reach behind an issue the fashion industry does not always want to discuss in public. Five years in, it has turned into one of the more unusually mixed rooms on the New York circuit, with athletes, actors and artists in the same seating plan.
Where the Kering Foundation dinner money goes
The evening raised funds for four organisations working to end violence against women and children, namely Activating Change, Fondo Semillas, JBWS and The New York Women’s Foundation. Spreading the money across four groups rather than one is a deliberate choice, covering different regions and different kinds of survivor support.
Hayek Pinault has anchored the dinner from the start, and her role is not ceremonial. She is married into the group that funds the foundation, which gives her an unusual amount of leverage over how the money moves and who gets a seat at the table.
How the night ended
Rita Ora closed the formal programme with a performance, and Paris Hilton took over the afterparty as DJ, which is one way to pivot a fundraising dinner into something people actually stay for.
The Pool, a Manhattan dining room that trades on a certain kind of old-money quiet, is not a small venue to fill.
Expect a sixth edition next September, since the dinner has settled into that stretch of the New York calendar and shows no sign of leaving it. The four beneficiary organisations will be putting this year’s money to work long before the next round of invitations goes out.
