2.12.10: Spring ball kick-off receptions, orchid dinners, 40th anniversaries

Spring ball kick-off receptions, orchid dinners, 40th anniversaries

The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Spring Ball Kick-Off reception at the Core Club.

Last Monday night at the Core Club, The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Spring Ball Co-Chairs, Tory Burch, Dee Dee Ricks, Shelly Carr and Jamie Tisch hosted a Spring Ball Kick-Off reception. The big excitement that everyone was talking about was that the great Mary J. Blige has agreed to perform at the ball which takes place on May 18th. There are a lot of Mary J. Blige fans out there, as we know, and those sophisticated young women of New York are some of them. So there will be that and the dancing to a famous DJ.

The ball is the Society’s signature event. It’s a glamorous dinner dance. Proceeds from the event provide funding for The Society’s comprehensive patient care, research, and education programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since its inaugural ball in 2008, the Spring Ball has helped to raise nearly $4 million for The Society.

At Monday night’s reception: Heather Leeds, Tory Burch, Dee Dee Ricks, Shelly Carr, Jamie Tisch, Muffie Potter Aston, Caryn Zucker, Sara Ayres, Sherman Meloni, Heather Mnuchin, Bronson Van Wyck, Christina Addison, Alexia Hamm Ryan, Elizabeth Fuller, Angela Clofine, Leslie Jones, Claudia Overstrom, Lavina Snyder, Kathy Thomas, Liz McCreery, Ashley McDermott, Libby Fitzgerald, Mary Davidson, Leslie Perkin, Martha Webster, and many more.

Christina Addison, Lisa McCarthy, and Heather Mnuchin

Lang Rogers and Alexis Waller

Claudia Overstrom, Leslie Heaney, and Elizabeth Fuller

Anne Keating and Tory Burch

Leslie and Peter Jones

Lavinia Snyder and Tom Leeds

Susan Sawyers, Dr. Charles Sawyers, and Heather Leeds

Dennis Basso, Caryn Zucker, and Tory Burch

Jamie Tisch

Heather Mnuchin

Sara Ayres

Sherman Meloni and Dee Dee Ricks

Karyn Glover and Webb Egerton

Shelley Carr, Tory Burch, Heather Leeds, Jamie Tisch, and Dee Dee Ricks

Lisa Selby and Tracy Huff

Last Tuesday night the New York Botanical Garden held its annual Orchid Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental. This is a fundraiser for the Botanical and its focus is on the flowers and centerpieces which are fabulous.

There were 28 dinner tables done up by several designers, floral, architectural and interior. During the cocktail hour guests have the opportunity to buy rare orchids.

Perry Heissmann

Phillip Gorrivan

Lionel Goldfrank, Dan Dahl, Dotty Goldfrank, and Brian Bowman

Richard Griffith and Joanne Walker

Margaret Faulk and Tom Kranz

David Easton, Claire Potter, Jimmy Steinmeyer, and Memrie Lewis

George Hubbard, Lucien Burnett, and Robin Graham

Susan Cohen and Marc Charbonnett

Robert Rufino and Naz

Sheri and Gary Strumeyer

Barbara Tober

Nonie Sullivan, Mary Davidson, and Deborah Royce

Katie Ridder, Peter Pennoyer, and Katie Leede

Megan and Alexander Julian

John and Carmen Thain

Fernanda Kellogg, Gregory Long, and Bill Cunningham

Lisa Newsom and Susan Gutfreund

Gregory Long

Barbara Kratus and Jessica Hawkins Haroon

David Easton and Nonie Sullivan

Dan Dahl, Yoko Mori, and Brian Bowman

Jack Deemer and Michael Walter

Julie Graham and Janet Burnett

Marissa Jimenez

Sylvester and Gillian Miniter

Carmen Thain and Karen Thomas

Leslie Jones

John Bass and Patti Bass

Kristina Davidson

Caroline Wamsler and Mish Tworkowski

Meredith Hutchison

Lars Bolander and Banchett Flowers

Richard and Maureen Chilton

Carolyn Englefield and Perry Heissmann

Photographs by Patrick McMullan.com

Last Tuesday night Interview magazine celebrated its 40th anniversary at Good Unites on 354 West 58th Street in the subbasement of Hudson Hotel.

There are quite a few of us out there who still own original copies of the original foldover magazine that Andy Warhol first put out in 1970. It was fresh and very downtown which was a different kind of downtown – fixed up lofts at cheap rents for serious artists and the bohemian life, getting by on a nickel and living the high life whenever you were in the position to live it. Working, doing their art, doing their thing; being there.

In the early days Andy went out every night, usually accompanied by two or three others, and sometimes by an entourage, many of whom became famous in the cultural world if not by the masses thanks to that association. I remember seeing Andy in a Park Avenue apartment house lobby, waiting for the elevator, with Interviews under his arm as he was always giving them out to drum up interest.

It had those great covers which were not only artful but hip signature – something new in the world where hip had just been Esquire with its George Lois covers or Rolling Stone which was already Madison Avenue advertiser friendly. Andy turned his magazine into Art and Society and defined, even arbited his world by the interviews and some great portraits of often sexy looking people. He was first there too. A lot of it was considered way over the top to downright vulgar by older parties. What a laugh that is today since its style is now almost sedate compared to today’s sensibilities about the visual.

I think it’s fair to say Interview became the most influential magazine of its time, especially after Vanity Fair was revived, a kind of corporate big budget version of Andy’s little foldover.

Tuesday night’s party brought out a different kind of crowd who live in a different kind of world that Andy more or less influenced in so many way. It was a good crowd and they were having a good time. In the room: Fabien Baron, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Fabiola Beracasa, Leigh Lezark, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Kate Olsen, Kelly Cutrone, Whitney Port, Kate Bosworth, Peter Brant Naomi Campbell, Daphne Guinness, Lazaro Hernandez, Nate Lowman, Josh Lucas, Terry Richardson, Amy Sacco, Tony Shafrazi, Michael Stipe, Sam Talbot, Olivier Zahm and thousands more just like ‘em.