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This past Tuesday Lucy Sykes-Rellie and Bettina Zilkha hosted a luncheon with Victoria’s Secret for Parisian couture lingerie designer Chantal Thomass at Restaurant Daniel. They were all there taking it in, including: Muffie Potter Aston, Debbie Bancroft, Milly de Cabrol, Jennifer Creel, Judy Licht Della Femina, Nathalie Kaplan, Renee Rockefeller, Marisa Brown, Samantha Boardman, Tiffany Dubin, Susan Fales-Hill, Celerie Kemble, Alexandra Lind Rose, Erin Lazard, Patty Raynes, Dayssi de Kanavos, Nicole Miller, Gigi Mortimer.
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L. to r.: The dining room at Daniel; Celerie Kemble, Tiffany Dubin, and Debbie Bancroft. |
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Martha McGuinness, Natalie Leeds Leventhal, and Jackie Astier |
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Somers Farkas, Dana Hammond, and Muffie Potter Aston |
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Chantal Thomass creations for Victoria's Secret |
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Chantal Thomass and Nicole Miller
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Muffie Potter Aston and Susan Fales-Hill |
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Renee Rockefeller |
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Samantha Boardman |
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Jennifer Creel |
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Jackie Astier |
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Patty Raynes |
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Bettina Zilkha and Milly de Cabrol
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos and Marisa Brown
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Martha McGuinness and Tiffany Dubin |
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Regardless of the constantly changing tastes of the Palm Beach social whirl, one event has remained at the pinnacle of the season for at least the last decade or so, and that is the annual Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach dinner dance.
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Pauline Pitt, John Mashek, Jamee Gregory, Virginia Coleman, and Peter Gregory |
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More than any of the few hundred other “proms” that happen practically every night from November to May, this gala has all the right stuff to create a “must go” gig. Firstly- there’s the chairman- the beautiful, very popular Pauline Pitt — a lady for whom many would walk over hot coals for. Secondly there is the cause — the preservation and protection of Palm Beach’s architecture and cultural heritage. And lastly - the crowd -- as A-list as it gets - the kind of event that brings out even the most diehard “we don’t go out-ers”.
The dance has changed venues over the years. Pre-Donald Trump turning it into a club, it was at Mar-a-Lago, then in a tent at the Flagler Museum and now in the great oceanfront ballroom of The Breakers. By New York standards, it’s a “small dance” — only about 350 guests, but an amazing snapshot of what Palm Beach is all about. There - Preservation Foundation president John Mashek with his annual houseguests Peter and Jamee Gregory, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder, Llwyd and Diana Ecclestone, Jimmy and Kate Gubelmann, Pepe and Emilia Fanjul, Frances Hayward, Tommy Quick, Tina Fanjul, Alfred and Querube Clark, Frannie Scaife and Tom McCarter, Mish Tworkowski, Martin and Audrey Gruss, Peter and Brantley Knowles, Raymond and Maria Floyd, Jean Tailer, Carroll Petrie and John Christensen, Howard and Michele Kessler, Lesly Smith and Jim Walsh, Roberto and Joanne DeGuardiola, Minot and Victoria Amory, Dame Celia Lipton Farris and Burt Sokol, Robert Janjigian, Rand and Jessie Araskog, Kate Ford and Frank Chopin, Kenn Karakul and Jim Held, Alan and Cathy Bleznak, the Sisters Wathne, Chris and Grace Meigher and on and on.
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Burt Sokol and Dame Celia Lipton Farris |
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John and Eddy Taylor with Tom Quick |
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L. to r.: Party design gave tribute to Sea Gull Cottage, Palm Beach's oldest house; Grace and Chris Meigher. |
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Pauline Pitt and Ali Hanley
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Cathy and Alan Bleznak |
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John Mashek, Pauline Pitt, and Evelyn and Leonard Lauder
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Freddy Melhado and Kate Ford |
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Candy Hamm and Mish Tworkowski
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Robert Janjigian and Liza Pulitzer |
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Jean Tailer and Carroll Petrie
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Pauline Pitt and Steven Stolman
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Kate Gubelmann |
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Emilia Fanjul |
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| Photographs by Neil Rasmus ©Patrick McMullan (Bettina); Lucien Capehart (Preservation). |
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