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 Spring Galas galore
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Minutes before dinner on the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater for the New York City Ballet's annual Spring Gala. |
Last Wednesday night, the New York City Ballet held its annual Spring Gala at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center featuring the world premiere of a new production of Brecht/Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett and starring Broadway legend Patti LuPone in her NYCB debut. The Gala was a star-studded affair out to celebrate LuPone, Taylor-Corbett and the exciting new production.
Décor for the event was provided by Dejuan Stroud, with catering by Glorious Food and music by DJ Stan Cortois. With over 800 guests in attendance the event was successful in raising over $2 million for the Company.
Inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins, designers Betsey Johnson and Erin Fetherston created pieces exclusively for the Gala and had their looks modeled by a muse of the designer’s choice. |
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Peter Martins, Kathy Brown and event chairmen Clemence von Mueffling, Barbara and Meyer Feldberg, Judy and Russ Carson, and Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky with Wendy Whelan and Patti LuPone (center). |
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Dinner on the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater |
Among those attending were: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Vanessa Williams, Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti, Susan Stroman, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Victor Garber, Rob Ashford, Patrick Cassidy, Jonathan Freeman, Larry Fuller, Boyd Gaines, Jeffrey Richman, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, David Yazbek, Marc Routh, Paul Gemignani, Erin Fetherston and Gabe Saporta, Betsey Johnson, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Nina Griscom, Alexandra Lebenthal, Fe Fendi, Patricia Shiah, Susan Tabak, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Jean Shafiroff, Yaz Hernandez, Susan Krysiewicz, Carol Mack, Arie and Coco Kopelman, Veronique and Robert Pittman, Arden Wohl, Peter Martins, Darci Kistler, and the Dancers of the New York City Ballet.
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Maia Collins and Glenn Keenan |
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David Wax and Jieun Wax |
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Fe Fendi |
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Gillian Miniter |
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Jean Shafiroff |
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Rafael Sanchez, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and Shaun Tayor Corbett |
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Jackie Weld Drake |
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Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker |
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Marcia Mishaan |
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Mary Snow |
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Marianna and Elia Zois |
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Kathy Brown and Nat Leventhal |
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Jill Kargman, Ari Kopelman, and Coco Kopelman |
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Billy Wright |
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Betsey Johnson |
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Megan LeCrone, Emery LeCrone, Sophia Lamar, and Sean Suozzi |
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Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia |
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Vanessa Williams |
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Victor Garber |
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Lynne Taylor-Corbet |
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Pamela Joyner and Darren Walker |
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Patricia Shiah |
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Susan Stroman |
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Susan Tabak |
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Stephanie LaCava |
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Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman |
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Carmen Dell'Orefice |
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Clarke Murphy and Whitney Murphy |
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Donya Bommer |
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Wendy Whelan and Sarah Jessica Parker |
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Gabe Saporta and Erin Fetherston |
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David Dangoor and Ide Dangoor |
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Carol Mack and Alexis Clarke |
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Ulla Parker |
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Wendy Whelan and Brooke Shields |
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Amar Ramasar and Elisia Dawn |
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David Nadler and friend |
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Alexandra Lebenthal |
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Raul Suarez and Yaz Hernandez |
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Arden Wohl and Stephanie LaCava |
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Allison Aston |
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Anne Keating |
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Donald Tober and Barbara Tober |
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Alexandra Lebenthal, Dr. Susan Krysiewicz, Jean Shafiroff, and Fe Fendi |
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Nina Griscom and Lionel Piraino |
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Brooke Shields |
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Jay Diamond and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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Lisa Perry |
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Pamela Joyner |
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Sophia Lamar |
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Ingrid Yonke and Lucia Hwong-Gordon |
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Last Monday night in New York (as reported here on NYSD), the Lighthouse International held its kick-off dinner benefit for The Hottest Sale In Town, “POSH at the Plaza.” The sale ran from last Thursday through yesterday, and there were bargains galore. A friend of mine, for example, bought a designer black velvet dinner jacket for seventy-five bucks.
The POSH dinner brought out the fashion crowd and a lot of the social crowd. They honored Linda Fargo, Kim Baker Campbell (who was one of the founders of the original POSH fund-raising sale when it was out in Locust Valley), and Amy Fine Collins, who is fashion personified in New York today. It was a fun crowd, in a good mood and they raised a lot of money for Lighthouse International which does fantastic work for those (many) of us who are vision impaired. |
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| Baker Clan |
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| Elsa Honig Fine, Bradley Collins, Amy Fine Collins, Flora Collins, Carol Collins, Rick Malone, and Carol Malone |
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| Linda Fargo, Iris B. Apfel, Carolina Herrera, Amy Fine Collins, Kim Baker Campbell, and Pauline Pitt |
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| Beatrice Pei and Diane Fisher |
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| James Aguiar and Jennifer Csengody |
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| Gilles Mendel and Susan Sokal |
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| Juliana Cairone, Andrea Cairone, Valerie de Boni, and Graziano de Boni |
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| Andrew Solomon, Betsy de Lotbiniere, John Habich Solomon, and Bettina Zilkha |
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| Karen Burke |
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| Claudia Lebenthal and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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| Jenne Lombardo |
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| Grace Meigher and Emilia Fanjul |
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| Anne Huntington, Debbie Silverman, Nasha Wallin, and Stephanie Vanamme |
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| Valerie and Graziano de Boni |
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| Chuck and Candy Pratts Price |
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| Cielle Fouquet, John McGreevy, and Lavinia Baker |
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| Adelina Wong Ettelson, Christopher Knight, and Julie Skinner |
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| Bill Donovan, Jean Shafiroff, and Hope Kessler |
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| Adrian Gusa |
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| Kane Baker |
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| Carolina Herrera and Alex Hitz |
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| Cassandra Seidenfeld, Rajive Johri, and Indrani Johri |
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| Chris Meigher, Daisy Prince, and Mark Ackermann |
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| Clair Watson and Lizzie Tisch |
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| Cassandra Seidenfeld, Sharon Bush, and Barbara Tober |
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| Dickie Moore, Jane Powell, and Arlene Dahl |
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| Andrew Pittel, Stephanie Goldman-Pittel, and Rob Arango |
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| Donald Tober and Carla Mann |
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| Jonathan Farkas and Veronica Trenk |
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| David Hoffman and Paige Novick |
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| Debbie Silverman and Jesper Lannung |
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| Jay Johnson and Richard Turley |
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| David Kleinberg and Teddy Borsen |
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| Dennis Basso, Natalie Joos, and Adam Lippes |
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| Elsa Honig Fine, Amy Fine Collins, and Flora Collins |
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| Gretchen and Colby Jordan |
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| Kim Baker Campbell and Rosia Suarez |
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| Geoffrey Bradfield |
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| Hamish Bowles |
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| Carol Anne Riddell and Robert Zimmerman |
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| Jesse and Elyse Newhouse |
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| Cheryl Sterling, Linda Fargo, Alicynne Sher, and Alexandra Webb |
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| Bob Bolacello and Samantha Boardman Rosen |
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| Julie Skinner, Jasper Lannung, and Debbie Silverman |
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| Christina French Houghton, Cathy Morris, Lizzy Frazer, and Amy Chan |
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| Edward Tricomi, Ranjana Khan, and Naeem Khan |
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| Christina Hoghton and Serena Stanfill Tufo |
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| Emily Mendes and Sam Bolton |
| Last Monday, Miles Nadal, CEO of MDC Partners, and Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast/ Newsweek, hosted a party to celebrate Mika Brzezinski’s latest book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth. |
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Mika Brzezinski. Click to order Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth. |
| The party was held in the Garden Room of Michael’s Restaurant and was overflowing with attendees. Guests included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Arianna Huffington, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, NBC News Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, former CNN host Kathleen Parker, MSNBC president Phil Griffin, CBS News’s Lesley Stahl, IAC chairman Barry Diller, J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, Nora Ephron, former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., MSNBC/The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capeheart, The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan, Judith Regan, The Economist’s Matthew Bishop, and Daily News‘s Mort Zuckerman. |
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Arianna Huffington |
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Savannah Guthrie, Willie Geist, and Phil Griffin |
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Chris Licht and Savannah Guthrie |
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Diana Taylor and Jonathan Capehart |
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Donny Deutsch, Tina Brown, and Holly Peterson |
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Harold Ford and John Pflieger |
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Howard Axel and Julie McMahon |
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Miles Nadal, Tina Brown, Mika Brzezinski, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg |
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Ernie Pomerantz and Mort Zuckerman |
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Mayor Michael Blooomberg and Ray Kelly |
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Lesley Stahl |
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Peggy Noonan |
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Toni Goodale |
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Judith Regan, Cathy O'Hearn, and Kathleen Parker |
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Mickey Drexler, Tina Brown, and Miles Nadal |
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Miles Nadal, Donny Deutsch, and Scott Kauffman |
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Susan Mercandetti, Diana Taylor, and Matthew Bishop |
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Last Friday night in Beverly Hills, designer Gilles Mendel of J Mendel and Saks paired up to host the launch party at Saks for the hot new summer must-read Beneath a Starlet Sky by bestselling authors Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper.
Among the guests Christina Ricci, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Bateman, Jackie Collins, Patricia and Rosanna Arquette, Tracee Ellis Ross, new “Charlie’s Angel,” Annie Ilonzeh, Cameron Silver, Liz Carey and Jake Weber, Angela Lindvall, Morgan Fairchild, Steven Cojocaru, Honor Fraser.
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Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper.
Click to order Beneath a Starlet Sky. |
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| Roscoe Merjos, Honor Fraser, and Wendy Goldberg |
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Guests munched on individual lobster martinis and smore's lollipops accompanied by mini milk shots.
The authors grew up on Hollywood, at the center of it all: Dennis Hopper’s daughter, and daughter of film and television producer Leonard Goldberg, respectively. Their first novel, Celebutantes, was a New York Times bestseller and garnered praise from People, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Star, Michael Kors, Tom Ford, Jackie Collins and more.
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| Jake Weber and Liz Carey |
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| Cynthia Sikes, Irena Medavoy, Jessica Yorkin, and Morgan Fairchild |
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| Elizabeth Banks |
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| Mike and Irena Medavoy |
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| Jeannie Lee, owner of Satine Boutique with Coco Lee |
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| Rosanna and Patricia Arquette |
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| Katherine Ross and Gilles Mendel |
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| Amanda Goldberg and Jackie Collins |
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| Christina Ricci and Gilles Mendel |
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| Wendy and Leonard Goldberg |
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| Tracee Ellis Ross and Amanda Goldberg |
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| Edoardo Ponti and friend |
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| Cameron Silver |
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| Annie Ilonzeh and Gilles Mendel |
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| Angela Lindvall |
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| Alexandra Balahoutis and Mark Rose |
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| Jake Weber and Jason Bateman |
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| Morgan Fairchild and Gilles Mendel |
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| Shauna Stein and Magda Berliner |
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| Ruthanna Hopper and Steve Brill |
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| Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com (NYC Ballet, POSH)
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