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| 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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| 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 [1]. 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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| 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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| 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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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [2]
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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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James Kaliardos
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Chanel Iman and Bob Sui backstage |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [3]
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| Nanette Lepore Spring/Summer 2010 Collection was shown at the Tents Promenade, last Wednesday ... |
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Ania Taubensligel
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Natalie Morales (center) backstage |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [4]
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| Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2010 Collection at Milk Studios, also last Wednesday ... |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [5]
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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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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [6]
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| Timo Weiland Spring/Summer 2010 Presentation at X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, last Wednesday ... |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [7]
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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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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [8]
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