Party Pictures 10/7/05 - Luncheon at Bloomingdale's to benefit the Southampton Fresh Air Home; Preview Party Committee for The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s 16th Anniversary Preview Party for the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show; The Community Coalition benefit auction and cocktail party hosted by New York Tomorrow's Leaders to raise funds for the Coalition and the victims of Hurricane Katrina

Designer Fall/Winter 2005 fashion presentation and luncheon at Bloomingdale's to benefit the Southampton Fresh Air Home

Jessie Araskog, Lis Waterman, and Mai Harrison

Karen LeFrak and Barbara Smith

Carolina Santos, John Auerbach, and Victoria Thompson

Last week Bloomingdale's and Pamela Michaelcheck, Hilary Block, Catherine di Montezemolo, Somers White Farkas, and Barbara Stovall Smith co-hosted a “Designer Fall/Winter 2005 Fashion Presentation and Luncheon at the store with special guest designers Yigal Azourel, Charles Chang Lima, Isaac Franco, Ken Kaufman, Zac Posen.

Lyn Devon, Catherine di Montezemolo, and Pamela Michaelcheck

This is a fun luncheon and gives the ladies an opportunity to see, maybe shop, have a leisurely lunch in comfortable atmosphere. They raised $56,000 for the Southampton Fresh Air Home which is a not-for-profit residential camp for physically challenged youth. Because of Bloomie’s, 100% of the proceeds from the ticket sales and from a raffle of fashion gifts, as well as a percentage of the day’s sales in the designer department and Maximilian Fur Salon, go to the Home.

The Southampton Fresh Air Home’s mission is to provide an enriching recreational camping experience for these kids. They also give their parents and care-givers a bit of a rest from their demanding responsibilities, so everyone gets a break all around. And for the kids, it’s an opportunity to experience for a couple of weeks what a lot of us take for granted ALL THE TIME – getting out, being with new people, having a good time and a new look at life. Bravo all around to those participating!

Pamela Michaelcheck and Mildred Brinn

Michael Gould and Zac Posen

Heather Leeds and Linda Munn

L. to r.: Amanda Junguera and Caroline Dean; Lyn Devon, Linda Lambert, Barbara Smith, and Brenda Landry.

Anne Keating and Leila Heller

Barbara Smith and Betty Sherrill

Photographs by Gerardo Somoza

Preview Party Committee for The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s 16th Anniversary Preview Party for the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show

Kenneth, Amanda, and Robyn Joseph

Ketia Mortensen, Mariann Molski, Kelly Briter, and Narelle Ayne

Last Thursday night Robyn and Ken Joseph opened their Fifth Avenue home to honor Susan Bodnar and Lavinia Snyder and celebrate the Preview Party Committee for The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s 16th Anniversary Preview Party for the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show.

Amanda and Caroline Joseph

The evening featured an informal fashion show staged by Graff and Bill Blass with their 2006 Spring Fashions and a billion dollars of jewels.All this and cocktails and hors d'oeuvres too.

Among the chic boldfacers attending who are big supporters of the Society for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center were Courtney Arnot, Muffie Potter Aston, Henri Barguirdjian, Ines Bausili, Mario Buatta, Susan Burke, Wendy Carduner, Nancy Coffey, Susan de Saint, Phalle Bambi and Rafe del a Gueronniere, Somers and Jonathon Farkas, Ruth Fleischmann, Sabrina Forsythe, Karen and Tom Glover, Jamee Gregory, Christopher Heath, Leslie Jones, Eleanore and Michael Kennedy, Coco and Ari Kopelman, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Heather and Tom Leeds, Jeanne Sorensen Leff, Nicole Limbocker, Leslie Perkin, Alexandra Lind Rose, Joy Ruane, Alexia Hamm Ryan, Vera and Bijan Safai, Frances Scaife, Brian Snyder, Daisy and Paul Soros, Eduard Van Der Geest, Alexis Waller, Clelia Zacharias, Bettina Zilkha, Dr. Robert Wittes.

If you didn’t know (and you should) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the oldest and largest private institution dedicated to the prevention, detection, control, and cure of cancer. For the past several years they’ve staged The Preview Party for The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show and it is their biggest annual fundraiser. This year, the Preview is on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Jamie Drake

Anabelle and Alberto Mariaca

Barbara McLaughlin and Dr. Frank Wittes

Mallory Kean

Wendy Carduner and Muffie Potter Aston

Sabrina and Carl Forsythe

Michael Vollbracht and Lavinia Snyder

Clelia Zacharias and Michèle Gerber Klein

Alex Lind Rose

Leslie and Peter Jones

Michael Groveman and Jean Claude Huon

Michael Vollbracht, Vera Safari, Dr. Robert Wittes, and Michael Groveman

Michel Witmer with Coco and Arie Kopelman

Peter and Jamee Gregory with Michael Groveman

Peter Kairis, Lavinia Snyder, Michael Vollbracht, Susan Bodnar, and
Michael Groveman

Roger Webster, Mario Buatta, and Chris Meigher

Vera Safai, Eugenie Niven, and Tom Guinzburg

Photographs by Joe Schildhorn/PMc

The Community Coalition benefit auction and cocktail party hosted by New York Tomorrow's Leaders to raise funds for the Coalition and the victims of Hurricane Katrina

Alexandra Kerenyl and Richard Augustyn

Laura Essey and Allison Brahan

Kelly Brink and Moira Forbes

The late media mogul Malcolm Forbes' daughter Moira Forbes Mumma along with co-chairs Chad Burkhardt, Christopher London, and Allison Weiss welcomed guests to the Forbes Magazine Galleries two Thursday ago for The Community Coalition benefit auction and cocktail party hosted by New York Tomorrow's Leaders to raise funds for the Coalition and the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Forbes’ granddaughters Moira Forbes, Catherine I. Forbes, Sabina Forbes II, Roberta Forbes Warren, along with others including Chip Brady, Eva Karloczy, Nicole Basabe, Caroline Waxler, Dylan Glenn, Elena Ouden, Hilton Heard, Perkin Thorne, Judith Hitchcock, Chip Brady, Laura Essey, Allison Brahan, Kelly Brink, Susan Terwillger, Debbie Slate, Victoria Klippel, Joey Prego, Matt Moran, Alexandra Kerenyl, Richard Augustyn, and Caroline Waxler perused silent auction items like jewelry by Mariam Denker Designs, Crystal cosmopolitan glasses and a New Jersey Net's Richard Jefferson jersey.

CNN Crossfire's Joe Watkins served as the auctioneer and riled up the crowd as he tried to raise the bids on hot auction items like a New York Jets jersey from quarterback Jay Fiedler, and a trip to the fabulous Forbes ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The event raised $25,000 for The Community Coalition and an anonymous donor gave additional $10,000 to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.