THE gift bags were "green" actually burlap - at the 25th anniversary of Nicole Miller's (above) start in the fashion business.

And they were filled with saplings. Co-host Robert Kennedy Jr., of the Riverkeeper Foundation, told the boisterous crowd at Chinatown Brasserie to each plant their tree - somewhere. Among the green thumbs: Daphne Zuniga, Michael Mailer, Mary Boone, Jay McInerney and Anne Hearst, Tama Janowitz, Robert Pittman, Michelle Hicks, Jason Binn, Ghislaine Maxwell Andre Balazs and ex-wife Katie Ford, and the eatery's owner, John McDonald.