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This
is Fashion Week in New York and it’s party
time to the point that it is actually unimaginable
even to New Yorkers who, it sometimes seems, do nothing but go to
parties.
Last night,
after his show at the Bryant Park tents, Doug Hannant and
his partner/CEO
Fred Anderson hosted a party that was a kick-off
party for The Black Ball: A Benefit for Keep a Child Alive. Alicia
Keys was there, and spoke about the experience
of visiting Africa where the AIDS infection is sometimes as high
as 40% of the population.
The objective of this charity is to get the drugs that are life-sustaining
to the people who are infected. Many of the co-chairs of the benefit
were there including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler,
and Debbie Bancroft. The other co-chairs – Alan
Cumming, Fabiola Beracasa, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, and Eileen
Naughton may
have been there but I didn’t see them. It was basically another
of the scores of fashion week parties, this time at a club on West
27th
Street (between 10th and 11th) called Cain. And it was fun. Just
lots of people, some familiar faces and many we’ve never seen
before, good music and lots of interactions.
We ran into Larry and Denise Wohl who were going next door to the
party at the club Home for Zac Posen, the young hot designer who
recently sold half his business to Sean (“Diddy”) Combs for $75 million. So we joined them. Mr. Posen is the boy of the moment
in the fashion media and from all indications, such as an article
in Thursday’s New York Times about his domestic life with his
boyfriend, the interior decorator Brian Callahan, he’s got
his feet on the ground and his business in the cash register, ka-ching-ka-ching.
Like the club we’d come from, Cain next door, it was an open
bar and filled with a lot of young people from the fashion industry
and even more from the club world. At midnight when we arrived, it
was rather quiet – about fifty or sixty people. By one in the
morning, it was jammed – hundreds of people dancing and drinking
and socializing. More about that on Wednesday.
In the meantime, it’s a cacophony of creative minds and parties
for fashion businesses, for charities, for retail outlets and most
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Douglas
Hannant Spring/Summer 2006 Fashion Show at the Plaza at Bryant
Park
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Luigi
Tadini
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Nicole
Miller
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Patrick
McDonald
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Anna
Pinheiro
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L.
to r.: Prepping backstage; Douglas Hannant and Frederick
Anderson; Hunt Slonem and Charlene Nederlander.
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Patrick
captures Tinsley Mortimer, Bettina Zilkha, and Nina Garcia
backstage
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Douglas
Hannant and Michele Herbert
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Anna
Sui Spring 2006 Collection at the Tent at Bryant Park
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Carolyn
Murphy
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Gemma
Ward
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Heather
Marks
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Julia
Stegner and Missy Rayder
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A
suite of models congratulate Ana Sui backstage
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Tory
by TRB Spring 2006 Collection
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Tory
Burch
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Tory
by TRB Spring 2006 Collection
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More
from Tory by TRB Spring 2006 Collection
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Wunderkind
by Wolfgang Joop, Spring 2006 Collection at the Tent at Bryant
Park
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Dani
Stahl and Michael Carl
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Clay
Barn Swanson, Alexandra Lind Rose, and Jordan Daly
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Esther
Nash and Shelley Nash
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Bettina
Zilkha, Somers Farkas, Grace Hightower, Patti Raynes,
and Beth DeWoody
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Wolfgang
Joop and Jemma Kidd Mornington
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Sean "Diddy" Combs
and Elizabeth Hurley give Breast Cancer the Pink Slip with the
Estee Lauder
Companies at the Bryant Park Grill
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The
scene outside the Bryant Park Grill
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Leila
Fuller, Bonnie Fuller, and Tara Kraft
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Evelyn
Lauder and Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer
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Evelyn
Lauder, Elizabeth Hurley, and Leonard Lauder
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Elizabeth
Hurley
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Margherita
Missoni
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Whitney
Casey, John Demsey, and Atoosa Rubenstein
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Sean
Combs and William Lauder
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J.
Mendel Spring 2006 Collection at the Plaza at Bryant Park
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Caroline
Winberg
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Inguna
Butane
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Helen Schifter
and Patrick McCarthy
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H&M
Hennes & Mauritz launches & Denim with David LaChapelle
at Splashlight Studios
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Amanda
Lepore
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Brandy
Wine and Brend A-Go-Go
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Models
in H & M
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Melissa
George
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Meredith
Ohstrom
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Ronnie
Madroff and Alhia Chacoff
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Napkin
anyone? |
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Francois
Alexander
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Tali
De'Mar
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Thomas Hayo
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Veronica
Webb
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David
LaChapelle and Patrick McMullan
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Jamie
Kingberg, Georgina Schaeffer, Jeff Caldwell, and Caroline
Perkins
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| Photographs
by Erik
T. Kaiser; Patrick
Hannaway; Patrick
McMullan; Patrick
McMullan; Nick
Papananias;
Patrick McMullan. |
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