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Anyone who was anyone

Leighton Meester at the Seventh Annual CFDA / VOGUE Fashion Fund Award at Skylight Soho.

Anyone who was anyone in fashion and fashion celebrity-dom was at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards this past Monday at the Skylight Soho. Karl Lagerfeld lost his vintage chanel diamond feather brooch diamond pin, and for a while there people like Diane von Furstenberg and Carey Mulligan were on the floor looking for it, although it was retrieved by photographer Neil Rasmus. Aerin Lauder and Karlie Kloss wore the same dress by Stella McCartney.

Harley Viera Newton

Jack McCollough, Victoria Traina, Lazaro Hernandez

Jack McCollough, Victoria Traina, and Lazaro Hernandez

Gaia Repossi

David Lauren

Jeff Costello and Robert Tagliapietra

Albertus Swanepoel

Chanel Iman

Zac Posen and Kim Kardashian

Annabel Tollman

Julie Macklowe and Francisco Costa

Julie Gilhart

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen

Anna Wintour and Bee Shaffer

Hamish Bowles

Carolina Herrera Jr. and Carolina Herrera

Jacquelyn Jablonski and Thakoon

Allison Sarofim and Guest

Eugenia Gonzalez Ruiz and Michael Bastian

Alexa Chung and Pamella Love

Christina Ricci and Peter Som

Fabiola Beracasa and Guest

Julia Saner and Guillaume Henry

Georgina Chapman and Karen Craig

Emily Sussman and Jeffrey Kalinsky

Alexander Wang and Vanessa Traina

Gregory Parkinson

Caroline Sieber

Diane von Furstenberg

Anna Paquin

Chace Crawford

Giambattista Valli

Carey Mulligan

Ed Westwick

Keri Hilson and Chris Ben

John Whitledge Trovata

Jason Wu and Shala Monroque

Karlie Kloss and Moss Lipow

Karl Lagerfeld and Lady Amanda Herlech

Rachel Roy and Maxwell

Dr. Lisa Airan, Gilles Mendel, and Kylie Case

Lesley M.M. Blume and Anya Strzemien

Marcia Patmose and Eunice Lee

Vena Cava and Hailey Gates

Helen Lee Schifter and Nicole Miller

Oliver Helden and Paul Marlow

Michael Kors

Mary Louise Parker

Leighton Meester

Tory Burch

Peter Dundas and Joan Smalls

Patrik Ervell

Prabal Gurung and Maggie Betts

Monique Péan and Nora Zehetner

Eddie Borgo

Tracy Reese

Mary Kate Steinmiller and John Patrick Organic

Reed and Delphine Krakoff

Nora Zehetner

Robert Geller

Rachel Feinstein and John Currin

Rogan Gregory and Scott Hahn

Aerin Lauder

Kimberly Ovitz and Shu-Pei Qin

Christian Cota

The New York Chapter of French Heritage Society had their third annual Black Tie Gala at the Metropolitan Club tonight (11/16/2010). It was a joyous affair. This year, FHS honored Chef Ariane Daguin, the woman who brought truffles to the States. As FHS Board member and Wine consultant George Sape said when he introduced her, "There is not a chef on the East Coast, three star, two star or one star or wanna be, who doesn’t know her."

After cocktails and hor d’œuvres in the jam packed foyer, guests made their entrance into the ballroom under a canopy of swords provided by three Muskeeters. The Bob Hardwick Sound had guests dancing even before they went to their tables. During a break between first and second course, the musketeers took over the dance floor to give a demonstration of the art of fencing.


	Adrian Smith, Jean Shafiroff, CeCe Black, Margo Langenberg, and Luther Clement

This year’s Gala also honored the region of Gascony, a precursor to the 30th Anniversary, which the Society will celebrate with a trip to the Gascon region in the Southwest of France. It will include a cultural and culinary trip through Gascony. The celebration will culminate in a spectacular ball at the Château de Fontainebleau on October 13, 2012.

Elizabeth Stribling, Chairman of the FHS Board, welcomed everyone, explaining how Gascony is featured in novels, food and wine. Comte Denis de Kergorlay, FHS President said to mark your calendars for the 30th Anniversary celebration.

Co-Chairmen of the Gala were CeCe Black, Margo Langenberg and Jean Shafiroff.

There were 220 guests. The money raised will further the mission of FHS to protect the French architectural legacy both in France and the United States with particular emphasis on preservation and education. In its 28 years, the Society has grown to 13 Chapters across the United States and one in Paris. FHS has contributed to over 460 restoration grants and provided more than $18 million, including matching funds, to projects in virtually every department in France and to properties in the United States that reflect France’s historic influence. The Society also fosters long-established French-American relationships in two ways. One, it organizes trans-Atlantic student internship opportunities and two, it offers its’ members enriching cultural trips in France and the U.S.

Among the guests: Daniel Boulud, Diandra Douglas, Lee Black, Irene Aitken and Konrad Keesee, Barbara Bancroft, Frances and William Bruder, Sharon Bush and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Zita Davisson, Barbara de Portago, Martin Shafiroff, Michèle Gerber Klein, Yaz and Valentin Hernandez, Grace and Chris Meigher, Anka Palitz, Ann Rapp, Roy Kean, Jeri Sape, Patricia and Robert Shiah, Elizabeth Stafford and Count Nicholas Wenckhein, Barbara and Peter Regna, Guy Robinson, Barbara and Donald Tober, Victoria and Frank Wyman, Marianne and John Wyman, Isabelle Orliac, Comte Marc de Gontaut Biron, Bettina Zilkha, The Honorable Phillippe Lalliot, Consul General of France in New York and Mrs. Laurence Folliot Lalliot.

Comte de Kergolay, Elizabeth Stribling, and George Sape

Patricia Shiah

Adrian Smith, Luther Clement, Kurt Getz, and CeCe Black

George Sape and Ariane Daguin

Barbara Bancroft

Ariane Daguin and Odile de Schiétère

Guy Robinson and Elizabeth Stribling

Peter and Barbara Regna

Marcela and Bob Ritter

Elena Baxter, Mary Anne Murray, Mary Etta Schneider, and Rachel Lechliter

Anne and Chuck Niemeth with Marianne and John Wyman

Kate Edmunds and Alex Donner

Consul General of France Honorable Philippe Lalliot with Mrs. Laurence Folliot Lalliot

Elizabeth Stribling and Comte de Kergolay, President French Heritage Society

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and Sharon Bush

Alison Harmelian, Lee Black, Phillip Salamon, and Paula Meuller

Barbara and Donald Tober

Valentin and Yaz Hernandez

Grace and Chris Meigher

Diandre Douglas

This past Monday night at MacKenzie-Childs at 14 West 57th Street, Southampton Hospital celebrated the Holidays with Jean Shafiroff with a shopping soiree. Greeted by trumpeters, many guests got an early start on the holiday shopping while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.

Outside and in MacKenzie-Childs

Shoppers received a 20% discount on one shopping item and 10% of all sales were donated to the Southampton Hospital. Among those attending were Mrs. Shafiroff with husband Martin and daughter Jackie; Andrea Greeven Douzet, Steven Bernstein, President of the Southampton Hosptial Foundation, Lee Feldman, Sharon Bush, Ann Rapp, Yaz Hernandez, Margo Langenberg, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Rita Cosby, Lisa Evers, Zita Davisson, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster, John and Margo Catsimatidis, Ranee Bartolacci.