4.4.07: Monday roundup | New York Social Diary

Monday roundup

Monday at Capitale they staged the annual Dress to Kilt fashion show, produced by “Friends of Scotland,” namely Geoffrey Carroll, to promote a contemporary view of modern Scotland. It was certainly contemporary on Monday night with a big crowd gathered at the monumental former bank morphed into an event venue/ nightclub. There was the traditional, with some real Scotsmen, with bagpipes, with girls in the skimpiest tartan get-ups you’ve ever seen, as well as some of the more athletic (including Giants’ Mike Strahan) men stripping down as they moved down the runway. It was an evening of catcalls, whistled, laughter, stomping and applause. I started out with the Digital backstage watching everyone getting ready. Lots of hair and make-up. There was a bar set up there by Johnnie Walker (the show’s main sponsoer – Victoria’s Secret also sponsored a segment). New York’s most famous TV star, hotelier, developer and casino owner Donald Trump appeared (his daughter Ivanka was model) because he was one of the two dozen “judges” chosen to select the winning get-ups. That didn’t really pan out. Everyone was good and there really wasn’t a contest.

Georgette Mosbacher entertained the troops in her laid-back chic style on Monday night at her grand and elegant Fifth Avenue apartment with a book party for her friend Christopher Buckley and his hilarious new book Boomsday. Big crowd of friends, fans and well-wishers. Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola, Felicia Taylor, Patricia Patterson, Couri Hay, Taki Theodoracopoulos, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Chuck Pfeiffer, Benedetta and Marina Pignatelli, Betsy Perry, Virginia Coleman, Tina Brown, Nancy Collins, Lloyd Grove, Lisa Crosby, Lynn Paulsin, Catherine Saxton, Joan Collins and Percy Gibson.

Whitney Smith and Nicole Petty

Maria Boyazny and Judy Agisim

Percy Gibson and Joan Collins

Katherine Bryan, Taki, and Sharon Hoge

Keith Carroll, Monnie Begley, and Lynn Paulsen

Lisa Crosby, Chuck Pfeifer, and Pat Patterson

Taki, Lisa Crosby, and Chuck Pfeifer

Felicia Taylor and Joanne de Guardiola

Chuck Pfeifer, Lisa Crosby, and Betsy Perry

Cary Goldstein and Jolie Hunt

Pamela Keogh

Lloyd Grove and Grace Salie

Georgette Mosbacher, Umberto Musci, and Bennedetta and Marina Pignatelli

Betsy Perry, Nancy Collins, and Tina Brown

The malachite collection

More than 300 members of New York’s Russian Jewish social and philanthropic community honored Alexander Machkevitch, leading industrialist, financier, and president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, with the first Global Leadership Award at UJA-Federation of New York’s Russian Division 18th Annual Gala on March 25 at Cipriani Wall Street. Also honored was Gene Rachmansky, recipient of the Lydia Vareljan Humanitarian Award for his outstanding leadership in the Russian community and at UJA-Federation.

Mr. Machkevitch was presented with the Global Leadership Award for his support of UJA-Federation’s Russian Division. The award, given for the first time this year, denotes the global reach of Mr. Machkevitch’s philanthropic commitment.

Among those present were Ambassador Kanat B. Saudabayev of Kazakhstan; Senator Charles Schumer, Congressmen Jerrold Nadler and Anthony D. Weiner; New York State Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny; John S. Ruskay, executive vice president & CEO of UJA-Federation of New York; Lawrence Wajnberg, honorary chair of the Russian Division and editor-in-chief of the oldest American Russian daily newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo; Tamir Sapir, real-estate mogul and last year’s honoree; Tevfik Arif, chairman of the Bayrock Group; Mark B. Levy, National Conference for Soviet Jewry; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; and Lifestyles Publisher Gabe Erem.

Igor Litrovnik, Rita Litrovnik, Inna Litrovnik, Diana and Alexander Alperovich, and Roza Reizis

Lawrence Wajnberg and Alexander Machkevitch

Amb. Kanat Saudabayev and Tevfik Arif

Alexander and Larissa Machkevitch with daughter Anna, Elena and Tamir Sapir, Alla Machkevitch, and Julia Arif

Bella Zelkin, Sofya Volkov, Ludmila Risman, Jennie Bronstein, Lilly Wajnberg, Diana Alperovich, Dina Kislin, Galina Pincow, Yeva Rintel, and Sofia Garber