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EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO Benefactor's dinner celebrating the grand opening and preview of the inaugural exhibitions. |
BrazilFoundation held its 7th Annual Benefit Dinner at Cipriani 42nd St gathering 440 friends, donors and collaborators in support of social projects in Brazil.
The event celebrated the City of Rio de Janeiro and brought guests to their feet with the beats of Frederick Douglass Academy’s Harlem Samba and Silvia Machete’s irreverent performance.
Guests wore masks and celebrated the city of Rio and its residents: the Cariocas, who in addition to producing one of the biggest shows on earth – Carnaval - are establishing Rio as a worldwide leader in industry, culture, and technology. Rio de Janeiro was recently selected as the first Latin American city to host the Olympics Games (2016.)
The Dinner honored Alberto Weisser, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bunge Limited; Cosette Alves, President of the Inter-American Culture and
Development Foundation (ICDF); Oskar Metsavaht, Creative Director of Osklen fashions and founder of Institute; and Otaviano Canuto, Vice president of the World Bank and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network.
The event was attended by the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Antonio Aguiar Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations Maria Luiza Viotti, the Consul of Brazil in New York Osmar Choffi and his wife Katia. Guests also included Miss Brazil Natalia Anderle; models Luciana Curtis, Cristiane Cavalcante and Martha Streck, Brazilian TV host Pedro Andrade and promoter Fernando Tormena.
The Benefit Committee founding chairs include Malu Millerman, Christina Rose, Angela Magarian, Alessandra Emanuel, Nicholas and Patricia Lobaccaro; Marcus Vinicius Ribeiro, Roberta Mazzariol and Jean Marc Bouchut, Iracilda and Pedro Lichtinger and Paula Bezerra de Mello. All proceeds from the event will fund social projects in Brazil in 2010.
BrazilFoundation generates resources to support community based non-profit initiatives across Brazil that foster social capital growth and the development of innovative solutions to local social problems.
In the past eight years, BrazilFoundation has raised over $11 million and supported a total of 184 small and medium-sized non-profits in Brazil. |
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Leona Forman, Jesus Luz, and Patricia Lobaccaro |
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Daniela Atwell and Karin Dauch |
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Ambassador Antonio Aguiar Patriota and Tania Patriota |
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Sergio and Malu Millerman |
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Benjamin Thigpen and Pedro Andrade |
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Katia Chohfi and Ambassador Osmar Chohfi with Doctor Albert and Linda Levy |
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Jeane Lopez-Muniz with Vanessa Simone Pereira and Susan L. Segal |
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Otaviano Canuto |
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Claudia and Alberto Weisser |
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Lorenzo Martone and Paloma Jimenez |
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Patricia and Michael Buckley |
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Leona Forman, Cosette Alves, and JoAnn Mason |
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Luciana Curtis, Cristiane Ribeiro, and Marcus Vinicius Ribeiro |
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Aikasha Ayinde and Ricardo Martiniski |
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Roberta Mazzariol, Jean-Marc Bouchout, and Alex Ibrahim |
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Miss Brazil Natalia anderle, Paula Bezerra de Mello, and David Spencer |
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Olivia Bam Olson and Eric Olson |
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Alessandra Emanuel |
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Martha Streck and Oskar Metsavaht |
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| Photographs by Bryant Carmona, Rebeca Axelrud Galbinski and Arilda Costa.
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| Thursday night's Preview Party for the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show benefiting the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at the Park Avenue Armory. |
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| Brian and Anna Haughton |
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| Leonel Piraino and Nina Griscom |
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| Phillip Thomas and Georgina Schaffer |
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| Bobette Cohn and Marianna Olszewski |
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| Margaret Russell and Michael Bruno |
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| Howard Elliot and Dina Merrill |
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| Jill and David Gilmour |
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| Gillian and Sylvester Miniter |
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| Christopher and Grace Meigher |
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| Bill Shiland and Amanda Essex |
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| Stephanie Krieger and Jillian Fuller |
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| Barbara de Portago |
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| Lisa Errico |
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| Laurie Carson |
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| Catherine Carey |
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| Tracy Bross |
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| Dr. Asa Abeliovich and Erica Klauer |
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| Ambassador Alan Blinken and Melinda Blinken |
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| Alison Minton and Chris Leasure |
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| Fred Krimendhal and Emilia Saint-Amand |
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| Eleanora and Michael Kennedy |
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| Frances Scaife and Thomas McCarter |
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| Alexia Ryan and Alexandra Lind Rose |
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| Mary and Ian Snow |
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| Virginia Burke and Jorie Kent |
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| Peter and Leslie Jones |
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| Heather Leeds and Anne Keating |
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| Barbara Gardener and Martha Glass |
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| Shelly Clarke and Elizabeth Fuller |
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| Kim and Payson Coleman |
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| Tom Leeds and Anne Keating |
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| Lisa Selby and Ruth Fleischmann |
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| Allison Aston |
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| Jamee Gregory |
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| Chessie Breen |
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| Tory Burch |
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| Christina Addison |
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| Chappy and Melissa Morris |
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| Rebecca Vanneck and Nanette Ross |
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| Adrienne Vittadini, Daisy Soros, and Mary McFadden |
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| Michel Witmer and Dr. Dino Rivera |
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| Geoffrey Bradfield and Helena Lehane |
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| Henri Barguirdjian and Lizzie Tisch |
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| Thomas Jayne and Ti Ti Halle |
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| The annual Henry Grunwald/Lighthouse luncheon at the Metropolitan Club where they honored SONY's CEO Howard Stringer. |
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Joe Ripp, Sir Howard Stringer, and Debra Bernstein |
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Ken Auletta and Allen Grubman |
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Arelene and Alan Alda with Richard Cohen |
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Joan Ganz Cooney, Warren Hoge, David Monn, and Sharon Hoge |
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Louise Grunwald and Alice Tisch with friends |
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Sir Howard Stringer, Nora Ephron, and Mark Ackerman |
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Joe Ripp with Charles and Clo Cohen |
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Sir Howard Stringer, Louise Grunwald, and Mark Ackerman |
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| David Monn and Andrew Tisch |
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Connie Chung and Liz Smith |
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Pete Peterson and Mort Zuckerman |
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Rupert Murdoch, Dr. Donald D'Amico, and Dr. Christopher Starr |
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Alan and Arlene Alda with Allen Grubman |
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Nora Ephron and Louise Grunwald and friends |
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Donna Acquavella and Elaine Wynn |
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Alan Alda and Sir Howard Stringer |
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Somers Farkas, Andrew Pittel, and Stephanie Goldman-Pittel |
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On a Wednesday, mid-September, they held the annual Rose Garden Dinner Dance at the New York Botanical Garden. The event commemorates the beauty of the rose and the Garden’s stunning rose collection in its autumn bloom.
The Chairmen of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burn III, and Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Goldfrank III. Honorary chairs were Mr. and Mrs. James Benenson Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hubbard, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Nolen.
This year’s dinner dance celebrated several of the New York Botanical Garden’s new building and landscape projects, and honored the benefactors that have made these initiatives possible.
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Special tribute was paid to Amy P. Goldman for The Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill – one of New York City’s prized landmark buildings dating back to 1840, which is currently in the process of being restored for use as a catering facility to produce vital earned revenue for the Garden – and Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan for the Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Horticulture Operations Center – an eco-friendly addition to the Garden’s resources that will enable Horticulture staff to steward the Garden’s living collections more efficiently and effectively.
In addition, the evening was also a celebration of the restoration of the historic Lilac Collection. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, which was in full flower for the dinner dance, features more than 3500 plants and 600 varieties of roses. The most beautiful of its kind in America, the Rockefeller Rose Garden is being transformed into one of the most environmentally friendly rose gardens in the world, while staying true to renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand’s original 1916 concept.
Proceeds from the dinner dance help to maintain and build the Botanical Garden’s renowned rose collection, and support the curator’s continue care and development of one of the world’s premiere rose venues. More than $500,000 was raised by the evening. |
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Andrea Fahnestock and George Hambrecht |
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Harry and Jean Burn with Lionel and Dotty Goldfrank |
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Marvin Davidson, Joan Goodwin, Bill Hamm, Mary Davidson, and Candy Hamm |
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Anne Hubbard and Roly Nolen |
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Gillian and Robert Steel |
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Richard and Maureen Chilton, Mish Tworkowski, and Caroline Wamsler |
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James Beneson III, Fiona Benenson, Werner and Tatyana Ahlers, and Ben Loehnen |
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Jane Choate and Dr. William Davis |
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Gregory Long and Marian Heiskell |
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Adam R. Rose, Sandra Rose, and Peter R. McQuillan |
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Patti Fast and guests |
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Janet Davenport with William and Suzanne O'Connor |
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Janet Ross, Kent Barwick, and Amy Goldman |
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Hamilton and Edie Kean |
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Friederike Biggs and Melissa Biggs Bradley |
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Jeffrey Fagen and Isabel Rose |
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| Last Wednesday night El Museo del Barrio held a Benefactors Dinner at the museum celebrating the grand opening and preview of the Inaugural Exhibitions Nexus New York/Latin American Artists in the Modern Metropolis and Voces Y Visiones; Four Decades through El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection with the unveiling of the new Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries. |
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Yaz Hernandez, Nazira Handal, Vilma Brennan, Valentin Hernandez, Letty Prescitti, Carlos Ponce, Berni Gilfonce, Jean Schafiroff, and Brook Christopher. |
| El Museo was founded 40 years ago by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of parents, educators, artists, and activists who noted that mainstream museums largely ignored Latino artists. Since its inception, El Museo has been committed to celebrating and promoting Latino culture, thus becoming a cornerstone of El Barrio, and a valuable resource for New York City. El Museo’s varied permanent collection of over 6,500 objects spanning more than 800 years of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art includes pre-Columbian Taíno artifacts, traditional arts, twentieth-century drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, as well as prints, photography, documentary films and video. |
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Arnaldo Morales and Scherezave |
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Alfonso Munoz and Jose Vidal |
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Alexandra Seegers and Leon Tovar |
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David Martinez and Charles Nordlander |
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Sari Ross and Monica Titera |
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Daryl Otte and Arthur Cohen |
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Bart and Louky Keijserskoning |
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Edison Alban and Omar Velazquez |
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Dennis and Blanca Taylor |
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Didi Pei, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Beatrice Pei |
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Esther Gaffron, Alejandra Redo, and Michel de Langlade |
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Jamie Ansorge and Leala Omamsky |
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Evelyn Miller and Jonathan Lee |
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Jonathan Crespo and Antoine Vigne |
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Richard Turley, Tony Beachara, Marie O'Mara, and andy Unanue |
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Beatriz de la Mora, Luisa Largos, and Ayvonne Garcia |
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Harry Smith and Marcia Gomid |
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Ivan Hopkins and Dora Marshall |
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Julian Zugazagoitia and Randy Rosen |
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Ruben Toledo, Isabel Toledo, and Julian Zugazagoitia |
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Reinaldo Herrera, Yaz Hernandez, Carolina Herrera, and Valentin Hernandez |
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Jim Burns and Michelle de la Cruz |
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Michelle de Leon and Mariana Salem |
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Michel Heredia and Christian Cota |
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Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Monique Ortiz-Arndt, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Tony Bechara |
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Rob Arango, Liz Neumark, Yaz Hernandez, and Valentin Hernandez |
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Matt Tichenor and Adam Bildersec |
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Sarah Julig and Tom Finkelpearl |
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Ulrika Brand and Mark Golberg |
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Yaz Hernandez and Carolina Herrera |
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Carmen Ana Unanue, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Tasha Zugazagoitia |
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Mary Wallach and Tony Bechara |
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Raphael Montanez Ortiz and Monique Ortiz-Arndt |
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Nathan Norse and Christine Cachot |
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Teresa Bulgheroni, Lilly Scarpetta de Pumarejo, and Yolanda Santos |
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Phil Pinto and Beethoven Torres |
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More than 150 of Chicago's most fashionable women gathered at the Chanel boutique at 935 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago on the last Wednesday in September to celebrate I Love Your Style with author Amanda Brooks.
Brooks, a New York City fashionista, chose Chanel as the destination for her celebration and book signing as the boutique showcased new cruise collection arrivals.
Chanel's Vice President of Retail, Susan Platworthy was on hand to discuss the cruise collection recently debuted in Milan with Karl Lagerfeld.
Event hostesses Kimberly Burt, Caroline Beak Crown, Meredith Wood-Prince and Alexis Ross sipped champagne and Vodka Basil Limonata cocktails alongside fashion gurus including Nate Berkus, Amy Tara Koch, Lisa Kingsley, Carrie Kane, Sharon Watrous and more.
Guests had their books signed and tried on Chanel's luxurious fashions all while tasting Wild Mushroom Panna Cotta, Seared Ahi Tuna and Basmati Rice Cakes, Black and White Truffles and more by Finesse Cuisine. |
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Caden Berkus, Nate Berkus, and Amanda Brooks |
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Cindy Galvin with copies of I Love Your Style |
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Abby Dunn and Brittan Callahan |
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Hostesses with Chanel Vp Retail Susan Platworthy and Amanda Brooks |
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Alexis Ross, Kimberly Burt, Caroline Beak, and Meredith Wood-Prince |
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Jessica Humphrey and Jennifer Cunningham |
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Elizabeth Ryan, Sophie Bross, and Beth Hughes |
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Kimberly Burt getting touched up |
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Caden Berkus, Nate Berkus, Yassi Berkus, and Steven Berkus |
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Patsy Callahan and Diana Hall |
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Jane Heenan and Arianne Gold |
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Lauren Male, Nadere Nateghi, and Sarah Ann Harris |
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Henrique Kerch and Melissa Maynard |
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Kay Stone and Jack Stone |
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Lauren Gold, Mirja Haffner, and Mindy Turitz |
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Samantha Gauntt and Allison Wolf |
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Kimberly Burt and Lisa Kingsley |
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Preston Jansing, Riley O'Neil, and Jennifer Kasten |
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Fina Riddle, Sarah Ann Harris, Caroline Crown, Brittany Griffin, and Alexis Baby |
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Meredith Wood-Prince in Chanel Shoes |
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DJ Megan Taylor |
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Katie Dunn |
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Stef Ross and Lauren Gibbs |
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