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French American Aid for Children (FAAC) honored Mr. Renaud Dutreil, Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton at their 68th Annual Bal des Berceaux at the Plaza. |
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| Doubles, the private club in the Sherry Netherland Hotel on Fifth Avenue celebrated its 33rd Anniversary with a black-tie dinner dance. Peter Duchin and his band played and the dance floor was busy all night. When they want to dance the party’s a winner. Executive Chef Steven Mellina prepared a brilliant menu: Crab and Mango Salad; Herb Crusted Lamb Chops; Bibb and Endive Salad; and Four chocolate, Hazelnut and Praline Torte. Big crowd a familiar NYSD names: Geoffrey Bradfield hosted a table for pals Helena Lehane, Douglas Hannant, Felicia Taylor, Frederick Anderson, Patty Raynes, Roric Tobin and Debbie Bancroft. Also at tables: Liz and Jeff Peek, Grace and Chris Meigher, Mary and Michael Darling, Allison and Jay Aston, Michael Meehan, Mary Van Pelt, Mark Gilbertson, Marlene Hess, Jim Zirin, Marcia and Richard Mishaan, Nancy and Joe Missett and Hugh Freund. Also Claudia and Gunnar Overstrom, Paige and Tripp Hardy, Polly and John Espy, Shelby Wilcox and Joel Cooper, Mitzi Purdue and Richard Kossman, Michèle Gerber Klein and Izhar Patkin, Craig Dix, Norma Smith, Larry Kaiser, Anka Palitz, Christina and Cary Potter, and Robin Reardon, Francis Lagata-Shelton, and Stan Pont. |
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On the Doubles dance floor. |
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| Joining in the fun were Elizabeth Meigher, Bryan Colwell, Sandra Wijnberg, Edward Barsamian, Georgina Schaeffer, Sebastian Bland, Sarah Bradfield, Phillip Thomas, Alex Lari, Rosie and Jack Heffernan, Anne Miller, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Phillip and Barbara Spector, Carmen and Waring Partridge, JerryAnn and Gene Woodfinn, Renee Hunt Brown, Roland Roditaille, George D’Angelo, Brenda Barak, Carol and Phil Mahler, Tony Becharin, Mary Wallach, Mac Hyman, Anna Gary and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith IV. All under the watchful and accommodating directrice Wendy Carduner. |
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| On a Friday evening earlier this month, French American Aid for Children (FAAC) honored Mr. Renaud Dutreil, Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton at their 68th Annual Bal des Berceaux at the Plaza. The ball has been held every year since 1942. Every year this ball brings together leaders of the French-American community to celebrate a group of debutantes and to raise funds for seven organizations in the US and France that extend professional care to children experiencing challenges to their health and development. |
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Anne-France de la Mothe Karoubi and cavaliers. |
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Emilie Jackson, Anne Louvel, Agnes Hibon, Beatrice Dupont, Dorinda Hawkins, and Virginia Fox |
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Escorts Oliver Schulze, Adrian Deseglise, Ricardo Vollbrechthausen, and George Brazill |
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Escorts Christopher Sharp, Robert Babbage, Nathaniel Dickey-White, James Weinhoff, and Jean-Guillaume Debray |
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Debutantes group portrait: Faustine Dutreil, Laure-Abeille Debray, Laure Albouy, Julia Flatto, Emily Herrold, Marina Wambold, Charlotte Simpson, Arabella Oz, Michele Levbarg-Klein, and Christina Locurcio |
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| This years ball presented ten debutantes: Faustine Dutreil, Charlotte Simpson, Arabella Oz, Julia Flatto, Laure Albou, Laure-Abeille Debray, Emily Herrold, Michele Levbarg-Klein, Christina Locurcio and Marina Wambold. They wore gowns from Christian Dior, John Galliano, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton and Fendi. Imssy Klebe was this year’s Chair. Former CBS anchor Jim Rosenfield was emcee and Nicholas Lowry, president of Swann Galleries, was charity auctioneer. |
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| Monday night a week ago at Christie’s, a Gala Dinner was held to benefit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. There was also a reading “O’Keeffe, Speaking with Friends and Lovers,” a reading of her letters from the Collection Beinecke Library at Yale. Joan Allen read the voice of Georgia O’Keeffe. Sam Waterson read Alfred Stieglitz. Marsha Mason narrated and read the voice of Anita Pollitzer. The evening began with the reading, followed by a reception and then dinner with the performers. Candace and Rick Beinecke and Ann Nitze were Gala chairs. Hahn Winery Estate in Monterey, California and Nicolaus and Gaby Hahn sponsored the evening. |
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| The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O’Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American modernism. The Museum’s collections, exhibitions, research center, publications, and education programs contribute to scholarly discourse and serve diverse audiences. Among the guests this night at Christie’s: Karen and Howard Clark, Mary Cronson, Beth DeWoody, Andrea Fahnestock and George Hambrecht, Barry Friedberg and Charlotte Moss, Achille and Judith Guest, Rachel Hovnanian, Stephen Lash, Anne and Gilbert Kinney, Marife Hernandez, Shannon Marshall and David Beatty, Lane Montgomery, Peter Duchin, Marvin Hamlisch and Terre Bair, Judy Ney, Ann and Bill Nitze, Denise and Andrew Saul, Kathy and Billy Rayner, Victoria and Frank Wyman, Victoria Smithy, Patricia Patterson, Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, Peter Wolf, Chris Walling, Calvin Tompkins and Dodie Kazanjian, Linda Marcus, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Omar Sangare, Rebecca Lawton. |
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| Photographs by Ann Watt (Doubles). | Click here [3] for NYSD Contents |