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 Galas and collections
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| The dinner scene at the 2009 Guggenheim International Gala. |
Jean Shafiroff hosted a luncheon for the NY Women’s Foundation at Le Cirque featuring keynote speaker Diana L. Taylor, Vice Chair of the Foundation.
Ms. Taylor spoke with enthusiasm about the strategy of NYWF, Women Helping Women – Funding Change and spoke of the accomplishment over the past 22 years, surpassing $20 million in grants, thus improving the lives of 5 million women and girls in New York City.
Over 100 guests attended, including Barbara Tober, Debbie Bancroft, Somers Farkas, Liz Peek, John Cantrell, Margo Langenberg, Yaz Hernanadez, Bana Hassan, Ann Rapp, Catherine Farley, Anka Palitz, Barbara de Portago, Wendy Dietze, Emily Raferty, Amy Fine, Donna Soloway, Jamila Ogunlesi, Joan Hornig, Carolyn SicherCollins, Fe Fendi, Andrea Greeven Douzet, Janice Ellig, Lynn Paulson, Debra Schuster Tanger, Victoria Wymen, Deborah Jackson, Joan Jedell, Marlene Hess, Larry Kaiser, Mitzi Perdue, Susan Cullman, Laureen Arbus, Joyce Cowin, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Lisa Cashin, Sharon Bush, Sharon Handler, Lisa Church, Patricia Shiah, Tomaczek Bednarek, Christine Gray, Zita Davisson. |
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| Jean Shafiroff |
As Co-Chair of New York Women’s Foundation Fall 2009 Dinner - Step Out and Step Up, Jean Shafiroff invited her friends and their friends to the upcoming NYWF event which will honor Elizabeth and Herb Sturtz and Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at the Gotham Hall. The Stepping Up Award will be presented to recognize NYers who serve as role models and demonstrate courageous leadership, vision and commitment to women. The Cocktail reception, will be followed by dinner and dancing and include a special performance by Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Mary J. Blige. Tickets and information are available at the NYWF website: www.nywf.org.
The New York Women’s Foundation® (NYWF®) was established in 1987 as a public philanthropy to be a voice for women and a force for change. We are a cross-cultural alliance of women helping low-income women and girls in the five boroughs to achieve sustained economic security through expanded opportunities. We work together to transform the conditions of poverty and to create an equal and just future for low-income women and girls. |
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Diana Taylor, Jean Shafiroff, and Liz Peek |
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Susan Cullman, Daryl Roth, and Ana Oliveira |
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Sirio Maccioni and Jean Shafiroff |
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Larry Kaiser, Anka Palitz, Donna Soloway, and Lisa Church |
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Lisa Fitzig, Bana Hasan, Saundra Thomas, and Joan Berg |
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Andrea Greeven Douzet, Yaz Hernandez, and Christine Gray |
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Jamila Ogunlesi, Wendy Dietze, and Debra Schuster |
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Liz Peek, Lisa Cashin, and Marlene Hess |
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Mitzi Perdue and Margo Langenberg |
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Lynn Paulsin and Carole Bellidora |
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Patricia Shiah and Jean Shafiroff |
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Diana L. Taylor, Bonnie Strauss, and Ashley H. Snowdon Blanchard |
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Joan Jedell, Laureen Arbus, and Sharon Bush |
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Gayle Perkins Atkins, Jean Shafiroff, and Amy Fine Collins |
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Jean Shafiroff, Rita Crosby, Tomaczek Bednarek, and Sirio Maccioni |
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Joyce Cowin, Joan Sherman, and Ana Oliveira |
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Amy Fine Collins and Somers Farkas |
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Anka Palitz and Barbara Tober |
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Margot Michalski, Carole Bellidora, Bana Hassan, and Christine Mortimer Biddle |
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Zita Davisson and Myra Weisser |
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Wendy Dietze and Joan Hornig |
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Ana Oliveira, Andrea Greeven Douset, and Debbie Bancroft |
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Ann Rapp, Ana Oliveira, Jean Shafiroff, and Sharon Handler |
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Sharon Bush and Tom Gates |
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Sharon Bush, Katlean de Monchy, Jean Shafiroff, Barbara Tober, and Diana L. Taylor |
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Frederico Wasserman and Amber de Vos |
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Diana L. Taylor and Saundra Thomas |
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NYWF Board members |
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Artist Will Ryman’s second exhibition, Will Ryman: A New Beginning, opened at Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea on September 10, a very busy night on the New York social calendar. But, despite the dozens of events for Fashion’s Night Out, for example, and the unofficial opening of the art season in New York, more than 1200 arrived at the Marlborough to toast the artist who is also the son of celebrated abstract painter Robert Ryman.
The exhibition, an installation of towering roses, some as high as 7ft. was a great success with the crowd including many members of the art world such as Marlborough owner Pierre Levai, Art in America editor David Ebony, Robert Ryman, Whitney Museum of American Art director Adam D. Weinberg, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff, Deborah Kass and art advisor Liz Parks.
Among others attending: Art Production Fund’s Casey Fremont, nearly naked performance artist Kiera Grant, Manhattan Magazine’s Richard Martin, designer Titina von Waldow and The Shooting Gallery’s drummer Julian Ungano and lead singer Peter Smith, both exhausted from their Webster Hall gig the night before. Several viewers referenced Alice in Wonderland while weaving through the installation. Ryman explained that the scale and detritus were meant to suggest an urban garden seen through the eyes of a rodent. |
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Adam Weinberg and Bettina Prentice |
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Performance artist Kiera Grant |
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L. C. Armstrong and Max Levai |
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Dale Lanzone, Clive Smith, Janis Gardner Cecil, and Pierre Levai |
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Artnet's Nazy Nazhand |
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Michele Oka Doner and Manuela Hoelterhoff |
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Adam D. Weinberg, Janis Gardner Cecil, and Randy Slifka |
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Melyora Kramer and Richard Martin |
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Julian Ungano and Peter Smith |
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Liz Parks, Maily Smith, and Bettina Prentice |
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Meghan Carleton and Will Ryman |
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Titina von Waldow |
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Pierre Levai and Will Ryman |
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David Ebony, Janis Cecil Gardner, and Bruce Mundt |
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Michael Gitlitz and Steven Charles |
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The Guggenheim hosted their annual Guggenheim International Gala last Wednesday at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Guests enjoyed cocktails and viewing of the exhibition KANDINSKY begin at 7:00PM.
There was a performance at 8 pm of Levels of Nothingness by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a performance installation inspired by Kandinsky’s Yellow Sound (1912). |
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Attire was: Black Tie and Kandinsky colors. Among the guests: The Gugg’s director Richard Armstrong, Isabella Rossellini, William Mack, Jennifer Stockman, Maria Baibakova, Frank Stella, Marilyn Minter, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Peter Coffin, Amy and John Phelan, Danielle and David Ganek, Isabella and Theodor Dalenson, Allison and Howard Lutnick, Larry Gagosian, Ann and Steven Ames, Christina and Robert Baker, Erin Baker, Maria and Bill Bell, Henri Barguirdjian, Debra Black, Henry Buhl, Denise and John Calicchio, Rose and Will Cotton, Marie and Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth, Armand Erpf, Sara Fitzmaurice and Marc Spiegler, Judie and Howard Ganek, Christine and Andy Hall, William Hillman, Sandy Heller, Jill and Peter Kraus, Nancy and Jeffrey Lane, Peter Lawson Johnston II, Linda Macklowe, Edward Meyer, Cheryl and Michael Minikes, Edward Nahem, Elizabeth Richebourg Rea, Michael B. Robertson, Kara and Steve Ross, Eugene Sadovoy, Stéphane Samuel and Robert M. Rubin, Nina del Rio, Thaddaeus Ropac, Denise and Andrew Saul, Lenore and Adam Sender, Per and Helena Skarstedt, Mary Cronson, Norman Peck, Lisa Dennison, Wendy McNeil, Tom Messer, Anna Pasternak and Mike Starn.
Event Chairmen included Richard Armstrong, Art Garfunkel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Maria Baibakova, Isabella and Theodor Dalenson, Danielle Ganek, Amy Phelan and Jacqueline Sackler. Honorary Chairs were Phyllis and William Mack and Jennifer and David Stockman. Corporate sponsor is Deutsche Bank. |
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Alessandra DiGiusto |
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Allison Lutnick |
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Amy Phelan |
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Amanda Steck and Glenn Fuhrman |
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Christine and Robert Baker |
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Christy-Claire Katien and Peter Coffin |
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David and Danielle Ganek |
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Anna Pyulgerova |
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Harriet Croman and Michael Lehrman |
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Eugene Sadovoy |
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Kim Charlton and Richard Cohn |
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Karole Vail and Rod Waywell |
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Lyn and George Ross |
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David Ganek, Danielle Ganek, Christine Kim, and Sandi Heller |
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Pam Sanders, Richard Baker, and Lisa Baker |
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Joachim Attefjord and Emma Hall |
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Jennifer Stockman |
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Linda and Harry Macklowe |
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Jennifer Roosfh |
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Knight Landesman and Ariel Garber |
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Lisa Dennison |
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Lauren Hinkson |
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Michael and Ninah Lynne |
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Elizabeth Richebourg Rea and Leclare Ratterree |
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Michael Minikes and Cheryl Minikes |
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Melba Ruffo Di Calabria |
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Nancy and Jeffrey Lane |
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Nina Miall |
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Spring Dautel |
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Neil Boyarsky and Jennifer Bandier |
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Maria Baibakova and Thadaeus Ropac |
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Peter and Josephine Kairis |
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Sannamarie Jantti, Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth, and Maire Ehrnrooth |
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Tom and Janine Hill with Denise and Andrew Saul |
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Jamie Niven |
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Roberta Amon |
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Richard Armstrong |
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Sheldon and Mia Solow |
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Wendy McNeil and Karen Lawson-Johnston |
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Seth Waugh and Gary Hattem |
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| More look back at last week's Fashion Collections: Anna Sui's Spring Collection 2010 in the Tents at Bryant Park last Wednesday ... |
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Gene Krell |
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Noah Bogen, Jessica Del Grange, and Zoe Cassavetes |
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Joe Zee |
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Patrick Demarchelier and Francois Nars |
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Lisa Marie |
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James Kaliardos
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Chanel Iman and Bob Sui backstage |
| Nanette Lepore Spring/Summer 2010 Collection was shown at the Tents Promenade, last Wednesday ... |
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Nanette Lepore |
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John Forte and Lauren Conrad |
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Polly Osmond |
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Ania Taubensligel
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Natalie Morales (center) backstage |
| Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2010 Collection at Milk Studios, also last Wednesday ... |
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Courtney Love and Jefferson Hack |
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Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez |
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Fabien Baron and Mazdack Rassi |
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Anna Wintour and Candi Pratts Price |
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Trish Goff |
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Ingrid Sischy and Sandy Brant |
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Vanessa and Victoria Traina |
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Aerin Lauder |
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Lauren Santo Domingo |
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Rachel McAdams |
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The finale ... |
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Shala Monroque |
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| Last Thursday at Skylight Studios on 275 Hudson Street, Ralph Lauren showed his Spring/Summer 2010 Collection ... |
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Anna Wintour front and center |
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Patrick Demarchelier |
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Ralph Lauren |
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Lauren Bush, Andrew Lauren, Dylan Lauren, Janet Jackson, Ricky Lauren, and David Lauren |
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| Timo Weiland Spring/Summer 2010 Presentation at X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, last Wednesday ... |
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Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein |
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Annabell Dexter-Jones and Leven Rambin |
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Elana Jaroff and Connor Paolo |
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Jack Bryan and Bettina Prentice |
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Lynn Yaeger and Mickey Boardman |
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Brett Marcus Coady and Annabell Vartanian |
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Zoe McLellan |
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Noah Forrest and Blair Van Nort |
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Damien Nunes |
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Fonzworth Bentley |
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Erin Cohen |
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Alan Eckstein and Anastasia Ariana |
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Meenal Mistry |
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Zoe McLellan and Leanne Hutchinson |
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| Erica Reid hosted the Valentino Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Haute Couture Preview at Valentino on Madison Avenue ... |
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Angela Holton, Margie Sherard, and Erica Reid |
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Elide Morelli and Katja Smirnoff |
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Malaak Compton-Rock and Tameka Raymond |
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Crystal McCrary Anthony, Erica Reid, and Malaak Compton-Rock |
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Dori Cooperman, Lauren London, and Inga Rubenstein |
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Judy Bassaly and Lauren London |
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Kim Heirston Evans and Richard Evans |
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Mali Damari and Gali Barraza |
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Logan and Adam Koffler |
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Matt Tyrnauer, Carlos Souza, and friend |
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Hilary Gumbel |
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Monica Mitro and Nigel Curtis |
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Nesua Ezora and Robert Danforth |
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Steve and Marjorie Harvey |
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Norma Smith and Irina Nicoletti |
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Rita Schrager and Andrew Buffalino |
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Victoria Bousis and Donna Poyiadjis |
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Julia Koch |
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Katja Smirnoff, Erica Reid, and Emme Aronson |
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Stefano Sassi and Carlos Souza |
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A Valentino creation |
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