Dakota Fanning is all smiles as she attends the ELIE SAAB private dinner held at Crown on Thursday night (April 5) in New York City.

The 18-year-old actress wore a sleeveless black cocktail dress with peplum and lace detail from the Pre-fall 2012 collection and was joined by Emily Blunt, desinger Elie Saab and Analeigh Tipton at the small event.

Dakota completed her look with Prada jewel-toe ‘Flame’ sandals and a Prada red poppy clutch.

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The day before, Dakota was seen picking up a take out order from Dean & Deluca.

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