Safe Horizon's Fall Fundraiser, "In Our Own Words. True Stories. Real Lives"
Jordon Bernstein and Ashley Stark
Andrea and Jon Stark
Jason and Maile Zambuto
Safe Horizon held it’s fall fundraiser which featured members of the cast and creative team of NBC Universal's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Executive Producer Dr. Neal Baer and Stephanie March, who co-chaired the event with fiancé Bobby Flay, Jose Raul Perez and Neil and Allison Rubler. Linda Fairstein, former Bureau Chief, Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, District Attorney’s office and best-selling novelist, hosted the event. $335,000 was raised for Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading victim assistance organization serving more than 350,000 New Yorkers each year.
Law & Order: SVU’s plotlines are ripped from the headlines, and at the event, the cast discussed how the victims of the harrowing crimes on their show have real-life counterparts – Safe Horizon clients. A crowd of 400 supporters viewed clips from the show and listened attentively while Linda Fairstein moderated a panel discussion with cast member and Executive Producer Dr. Baer. “Over the years, services for victims of violence changed significantly as agencies began to embrace the staff of Safe Horizon as partners,” Fairstein said. She thanked the cast members who were shooting and could not be there – Chris Meloni, Diane Neal and Tamara Tunie.

Gordon Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of Safe Horizon, closed the program by offering his thanks to event’s lead sponsors: Altria Group, Inc., Brooke McMurray & John Fowler, Kekst & Company and North Fork Bank. “With the help of these generous supporters, Safe Horizon has exceeded its goals and made this year’s In Our Own Words the most successful in the event’s six year history.”
Jose Alvarez, Linda Fairstein, Gordon Campbell, Mariska Hargitay, Dr. Neal Baer, and Stephanie March
Guests dined on tapas including Chili-Seared Filet of Beef, Seared Lemon Shrimp and Toasted Sesame Salmon Skewers by R. Cano Events. The Honorary Chairs were Brooke McMurray and John Fowler, the underwriting junior chair was Ashley Stark, who was joined by her parents Andrea and John Stark and brother Austin Stark. Other attendees included Chris Rock’s wife and committee member, Malaak Compton-Rock, ASPCA Animal Precinct’s Annmarie Lucas, Douglas Hannant and Frederick Anderson, The Honorable Gail Brewer, The Honorable Joel Rivera Majority Leader, ASPCA President Ed Sayres, Patricia Raynes, Melissa Berkelhammer, Tony DeLorenzo, Arden Hess, Celery Kimble and Luigi Tadini. The event’s Junior Chairs included Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord, Tinsley Mortimer, Minnie Mortimer, Eva Dillon, Zani Gubelman, Baron Cody Franchetti and the Host Committee included Cornelia Guest, Nicole Miller, Lydia Hearst-Shaw, Gillian Hearst-Shaw, Annie Churchill, Jessie Della Femina, Andrew Saffir, Jodi Della Femina, designer Alvin Valley, Royce Pinkwater, Alex Kramer, Alex Lind Rose, Zang Toi, Gustavo Arango, Debbie Bancroft, Daniel Benedict, Julie Dannenberg, Fabian Basabe. Other Benefit Committee members included Bebe Neuwirth, Gayle King, Holly Robinson Peete, and Gordon J. Campbell, Chief Executive Officer. Among Safe Horizon sponsors were Altria Group, Inc., C-In2, and North Fork Bank.

With over 25 years of serving victims, their families and communities, Safe Horizon is unsurpassed in its experience and expertise in providing immediate practical assistance and emotional support for those experiencing trauma as a result of crime and abuse.

For more information on Safe Horizon or to make a donation please visit: www.safehorizon.org.
Ann Marie Lucas and Edwin Sayres
Frederick Anderson, Patty Raynes, and Douglas Hannant
Gordon Campbell, Linda Fairstein, and Edwin Sayres
Malaak Compton-Rock, Brooke McMurray, and Stephanie March
L. to r.: Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, and Dann Florek; Malaak Compton-Rock; Melissa Berkelhammer.
Dawn and Tony De Lorenzo
Tatiana Wlasek and Luigi Tadini
Bobby Flay and Stephanie March

Photographs by Jimi Celeste/PMc



Oscar de la Renta celebrated the opening of his first US boutique on Madison Avenue
Alexis Bryan
Beth Buccini
Cindy Weber Cleary
Anna Wintour
Emilia Fanjul
Amy Astley
Glenda Bailey
Coco Brandolini
Amelia Vicini and Gretchen Gunlocke
Anne McNally
Allison Sarofim
Amanda Ross
Annette de la Renta and Eliza Bolen
Alex Bolen and Samantha Boardman
Alexandra Kimball, Daniel Benedict, Eliza Bolen, and Andrew Saffir
Dan and Cynthia Lufkin with Oscar de le Renta
Andrew Jennings, Oscar de la Renta, and Fred Wilson
L. to r.: Andre Leon Talley and Oscar de la Renta; Alex Bolen and Todd Meister; Marvin Traub.
Hamish Bowles
Katherine Pingree
Katie Lee Joel
Kerry Washington
Veronica Hearst
Kristina Stewart
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sandy Golinkin
Nathalie Kaplan
Marina Rust Connor
Stefano Tonchi and Anne Christensen
Patrick McCarthy
Hal Rubinstein
Teri Agins
Pamela Fiori
Muffie Potter Aston
Oscar de la Renta with Lady and Lord Rothschild
L. to r.: Serena Boardman with David and Neva Anton; Oscar de la Renta, Aileen Mehle, Kenny Lane, and Annette de la Renta.

Photographs by Billy Farrell/PMc



Last week at Ferragamo, The Rebuilding Afghanistan Foundation and Quest magazine celebrated the establishment of a new school in Afghanistan
Blair Violtze Clarke and Adelina Wong Ettelson
Ed Timberlake and Monsur Ijaz
Susan Shin and Ambassador Ravan Farhadi
The three founding members of RAF: Malalai Wassil, Elizabeth Hartnett, and Alexandra Coolidge
Anait Bian, Sessa Von Richthofen, and friend
Richard Turley, Anne Vincent, Unik, Ali MQuade, and
David Nesmith
Susan Shin, Alice Von Zabarowski, and Diana Hsu
The gang ...
... disperses



Museum of Arts & Design's exhibition of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design 1904 – 2004
Binnie Bauer and Colleen Caslin
Celerie Kemble
Nina and Binnie Bauer
The Museum of Arts & Design is holding an exhibition of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design 1904 – 2004, a retrospective of the development of one of America’s most innovative 20th century jewelry firms.
The exhibit features more than 200 vintage pieces of jewelry owned by such personalities as Doris Duke, Elizabeth Taylor, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition also includes design renderings, reproductions from fashion publications, jewelry molds and other necessary implements to establish an atmosphere for the viewer, lending a sense of the development of the work and the culture surrounding it.

Seaman Schepps, after many years as a dealer of jewelry and art objects, began to design his own pieces around 1926, which he gradually introduced in his Lower East Side showroom. Early success allowed Schepps to move uptown to various Upper East Side locations throughout the first half of the century, before settling into the current 485 Park Avenue location in 1959. Schepps, whose production studio exemplified the Arts & Crafts Movement, served as designer and employed a small number of highly skilled craftsmen to create one of a kind works of art.

Shepps’s striking jewels have graced the covers of leading fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country. His stellar roster of clients besides the aforementioned include the Roosevelts, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Rockefellers, Marlene Dietrich and the British royal family, all of which led to Schepps’s designation in the mid-20th century as “America’s Court Jeweler.”

Among the guests at the opening at the Museum of Art and Design on 44 West 53 Street were Shoshanna Gruss, Celerie Kemble, Moby, Fernanda Kellogg, Carole Holmes McCarthy, Binnie Bauer and Lella and Missimo Vignelli.
Barbara Tober and friends
Lauren Day and Bob Roberts
L. to r.: Caroline Greenwald and Shoshanna Lonstein; Marion Davidson with Kirk Henckels and Fernanda Kellogg.


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