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Saluted New York during Fashion Week at The Helen Yarmak Fashion
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Broadway
Star John Leguizamo, Opera Diva Renée Fleming and Lydia Hearst
in her Runway Debut all walked the catwalk at the Helen
Yarmak Fashion show to Benefit Uniformed Firefighters Association
Widows' & Orphans' Fund last Tuesday (a week) here in New York.
Five hundred of the fashionista crowd filled the ballroom at Capitale
to catch a glimpse of the VIP-studded runway for Yarmak’s Winter
2003/Spring 2004 collection featuring men’s and women’s
Russian furs and fine jewelry. |
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| John
Leguizamo with the FDNY |
Leguizamo
modeled a shearling grey overturned men’s coat.
Patty Hearst’s daughter Lydia made her runway
debut. American Ballet Theater’s Prima Ballerina Irina
Dvorovenko and her husband principal dancer Maxim
Belotserkovsky modeled, as well as Uma Thurman’s
brother, Mipam Thurman. Renée Fleming, was
wrapped in a full length, white mink coat worn by Lisa Kudrow
in the new Scott Rudin film “Marci X.”
The designer donated the coat, valued at $18,000, to the UFA Widows
and Orphan Fund in honor of the firefighters who lost their lives
two years ago this week. Fleming was escorted by Fire Marshal
Gregory Buday.
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| Renee
Fleming and Gregory Buday |
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Those that admired
the show included Amanda Hearst, Gillian Hearst,
UN Russian Ambassador Sergei Lavrov, President of
the USA International Fashion Shows Andres Aquino,
General Counsel of Russian Federation Viacheslav Pavlovsky
and his wife Katherine Pavlovsky, Somers and Jonathan
Farkas, Sotheby’s Royce Pinkwater,
designer Maggie Norris, interior designer Catherine
Aaron, Christine Schott, General Sponsor of the show, President
of Set Holding Samusev Alexander, Sydney Biddle Barrows, Michele
Gerber Klein, Dr. Kelly Posner, Francesca and Chris Beale, Julie Hayek,
Alice Judelson, Alan Wizig, Brian Wolk, Claude Morais, Jason Grant,
Jill Zarin, Diane Dunne and Colin Lively.
After the show, they all congratulated Yarmak at the private after
party with a Russian Buffet served with champagne, vodka and caviar
in the Capitale VIP Room.
The event was sponsored by Sber Bank, Set Holding, Aeroflot and JFC. |
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Amanda Hearst, John Leguizamo, Lydia Hearst, and Gillian Hearst
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| Irina
Dvorovenko, Helen Yarmak, and Maxim Belotserkovski |
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| Lydia
Hearst |
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| Samusev
Alexander |
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| Viacheslav
Pavlovsky and Sergei Lavrov |
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| Katherine
Pavlovsky |
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| Photographs
by Patrick McMullan and Chance Yeh |
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