Kanye West rubbed shoulders with the beautiful people at a cocktail reception and dinner for Giuseppe Zanotti’s Beverly Hills store opening on Friday (Feb. 4). Mr. West, clad in a black zip-up jacket, T-shirt, and shades, greeted the designer and his wife Cinzia Zanotti and posed with Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan at BOA Steakhouse on the Sunset Strip.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Elton John called ‘Ye’s 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak the

“sexiest record since [Marvin Gaye’s] What’s Going On.” “He’s a stone cold genius. He’s like Miles Davis meets Frank Zappa,” added the rock legend.