Young collectors and gifted designers

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Young collectors and gifted designers

Annabel Vartanian, Elizabeth Meigher, Scott Buccheit, Mallory MacDonald, Gillian Hearst Simonds, Laura Kornhauser, and Grace Gomez-Brea at the kick off for the 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show Young Collector's Night.

Wednesday night Rory and Elie Tahari hosted a kick off event at their Elie Tahari Soho Boutique for the 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show Young Collectors’ Night.

Young Collectors’ Committee members including Gillian Hearst Simonds, Dabney Mercer, Tatiana Boncompagni, Elissa Lumley, Elizabeth Meigher and Tatiana Papanicolaou, who were all dressed in Elie Tahari, as well as Kipton Cronkite, Edward Barsamian, William Gilbane III, Phoebe Gubelmann, and Luigi Tadini chatted with guests while enjoying drinks and hors d’oeurves. Guests Chessy Wilson, Jackie Astier, the renowned classical violinist Joshua Bell, Dalia Oberlander, Emma Snowden-Jones, George Wayne, Thom Felicia and Serena Nikkhah stopped by to help celebrate the upcoming evening which is being held at the New York Armory on January 29. Many shopped Elie Tahari’s latest fashions with a percentage of the evening’s sales benefiting the East Side House Settlement.

Alexandra Polier

Julia Moore, Rita Cabases, and Donna Simonelli

Annabel Vartanian

The Elie Tahari store windows featured works from Antik – a gallery specializing in works by artists and architects designing at the forefront of the modernist movement in Scandinavia. Furniture by Poul Kjaerholm and Josef Frank, wooden sculptures by Ralph Dorazio as well as paintings by American artist Sean Scherer are among the featured, museum quality pieces, which are also for sale through the store. Antik is one of the exhibitors at next week’s Winter Antiques Show.

The Winter Antiques Show opens on Thursday, January 22 at the New York Armory and will benefit the East Side House Settlement, a charity that provides education, counseling and other forms of assistance to the South Bronx community, one of the poorest congressional districts in the United States. Proceeds from the kick off event at the Elie Tahari boutique also benefited this esteemed charity.

Andrew Fry and Emma Snowdon-Jones

Bennett Leifer and Clay Floren

Ramona Brodsky and Caroline Dougherty

Christopher Rudolph, Emma Snowdon-Jones, and Cator Sparks

Bryan Mirabella, George Wayne, and Mark Tanksi

Billy Gilbane and Dabney Mercer

Cena Hackler Jackson, Kipton Cronkite, Krista Schulz, and Elissa Lumley

Chessy Wilson and Paul Slater

Grace Gomez-Brea and Scott Buccheit

Dalia Oberlander and Eugenia Gonzalez

Greg Calejo, Susan Magrino, and Hunter Hill

George Wayne, Scott Currie, and Mark Tanski

Lara Meiland-Shaw

Susan Kellogg, Caroline Dougherty, and Ramona Brodsky

Victoria Kirby

Jackie Jordan, Trisha Gregory, and Laura Lachman

Lucy Lang, Ian McLaine, and Georgina Schaeffer

Katie Walsh and Nathalie de Berry

Laura Kornhauser and Gillian Hearst Simonds

Mignonne Gavigan and Laird Roach

Mary Garth, Evelyn Dallal, and McKenna Olson

Elie Tahari, Rory Tahari, and George Wayne

Scott Buccheit and Gillian Hearst Simonds

Lyle Maltz and Ashley Baker

Tatiana and Thorne Perkin

This past Monday night ten of the world's most gifted young designers convened in New York for The Earth Awards, a global search for products and concepts that are sustainable, innovative and — for many — essential to improving basic quality of life.

Founded by Nicole Yap, the Earth Awards are an initiative of the ecoStyle Project established in 2007 by the Malaysian Government. The event is jointly produced by NYC Inc., kontentreal, and IMG Fashion, and underwritten by Tourism Malaysia. As a country, Malaysia is at the forefront of environmental sustainability and their support of The Earth Awards underpins the Government’s focus on environmental sustainability in its national policy and development plans.

Past initiatives of ecoStyle have seen various environment projects established in Kuala Lumpur and it is hoped that in the future, The Earth Awards will be hosted in other major cities around the world that are equally as passionate about a sustainable life on planet Earth. A prestigious and eclectic panel of creative thinkers have lent their support to The Earth Awards as members of the Selection Committee to judge the Awards. Selection Committee included: Paola Antonelli, Alice Bertoni, Adam Bly, David Buckland, Antonio de la Rua, David de Rothschild, Nicky Gavron, Scott Hahn, Peter Head, Graham Hill, Dr. Dan Kammen, Yang Lan, Thom Mayne, Michael McDonough, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Barry Nalebuff, Sergio Palleroni, John Picard, Werner Sobek, Terry Tamminen, Suzanne Trocmé, Dilys Williams, and Dr. Kenneth Yeang.

Dennis Basso and Fern Mallis

Hunt Slonem and Liliana Cavendish

Inga and Keith Rubenstein

Deborah Fenker and Zang Toi

Joerg Schwartz and Yoehlee Tang

Charlie Rose, Neri Oxman, and Azrene Abdullah

Kate Schelter, Todd Eberle, and Jennifer Creel

Lonneke Engel

Aaron Young and Laure Heriard

Nicole Yap

David Kuhn and Ghislaine Maxwell

Michael Klug and friend

Karena Albers and Fiona Desai

Kari Talley and Marjorie Gubelmann

Valesca Guerand Hermes

Andres Serrano and Irina Movmyga

Nominee Tom Sieu and Charlie Rose

Aimee Mullins

Paola Antonelli and Tunku Myra Madihah

Nominee Jacob Rutqvist

Nominees Amanda Jones and James Brown

Nominees Timothy Porter and Andrew Neal

Wednesday night at Cipriani, the National Board of Review Awards, on an evening sponsored by Bulgari, was a starry evening, with lots of Bulgari jewels and movie stars looking glam. It was the 100th anniversary of the NBR. Whoopi Goldberg hosted. Anne Hathaway was honored for her Best Actress award for Rachel Getting Married. Josh Brolin won Best Supporting Actor for Milk. Slumdog Millionaire continued to gathered awards with Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Breakthrough performance (by actor Dev Patel). Clint Eastwood won Best Actor for Gran Torino.