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Black Tie International:
FIT Couture Council Summer
Party 2010
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FIT Couture
Council
Summer Party
2010
August 17,
2010
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Photos by:
Joyce Brooks |
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Cassandra
Seidenfeld-Lyster,
Couri Hay,
Maggie
Norris,
Dr Joyce F
Brown
(President
of F.I.T), &
Dr. Valerie
Steele
(Director &
Chief
Curator of
the Museum
at F.I.T. |
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Chairman,
Yaz
Hernandez |
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Chaiman, Liz
Peek |
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Simon van
Kempen and
Alex McCord |
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Alexa Winner
and
Cassandra
Seidenfeld-Lyster |
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Roger
Webster,
Eleanora and
Michael
Kennedy |
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Gail B.
Karr, Jean
Shafiroff,
Yaz
Hernandez,
Cassandra
Seidenfeld-Lyster
and Sandra
Drespel |
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Maggie
Norris and
Michelle
Gerber-Klein |
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Chance von
Spiessbach,
Rose Hartman
and Tom
Gates |
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Lucia Hwong-Gordon |
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Tia Walker
and
Cassandra
Seidenfeld-Lyster |
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Joyce Brooks
and Maggie
Norris.
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Carson
Kressley |
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Quintessentially
is generously FIT’s Sponsor for
the FIT Couture Council Summer Party 2010 and
The FIT Couture Council Annual Luncheon that
will Honor Karl Lagerfeld.
Inspired by their mutual passion for high
quality service and attention to detail, Ben
Elliot, Aaron Simpson and
Paul Drummond joined forces in London to create
Quintessentially, a private members club with a
global concierge service, in December 2000.
Chairmen are Yaz Hernandez, Alexandra
Lebenthal,
Charlotte Moss and Liz Peek.
Designers that attended included Anait Bian,
Edmundo Castillo, Maria Cornejo,
Francisco Costa, Christina Cota,
Cathy Hardwick, Joan Helpern,
Eric Javitz, Pat Kerr, Daryl
Kerrigan, Gemma Khang, Emmet
McCarthy, Nicole Miller, Ralph
Rucci, Zang Toi, and Patricia
Underwood.
Other
fashion industry guests that attended included
Linda Fargo, Willa Kim (costume
designer),
Carson Kressley, Patrick McDonald,
PJ Pascual,
Helen O'Hagan, Lynn Yeager and of course
Dr. Joyce Brown, President of FIT and Dr. Valerie Steele,
director of The Museum at FIT.
Other guest that attended included Real
Housewives of
New York Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen,
James Andrews, Melissa Berkelhammer, Deeda Blair,
Claudia Cisneros, Cece Cord, Suzi
Cornish,
Carmen D'Alessio, Christophe de Menil,
Congress Woman Carolyn Maloney, Kathleen
Doyle, Peter Davis, Martha Kramer
Fox, Douglas Hannant, Anthony Haden-Guest,
Jane Holzer, Tama Janowitz,
Eleanora and Michael Kennedy, Yue-Sai
Kan, Mariana Kaufman, Mrs. Ray
Kelly, Scott McBee, Carlos Ponce, Judy and Peter Price,
Jean Shafiroff, Hunt Slonem, Emma Snowdon-Jones,
Barbara Tober and
Alexa Winner.
The annual Summer Party is
New York’s biggest August fashion event.
While so many
vacation this month, the
fashion world is here preparing for Fashion
Week.
Designers, Upper East Side women and downtown hipsters all come
together to make the event a success.
As is tradition,
Dr. Joyce Brown, president of FIT,
gave the summer party toast.
Dr. Joyce Brown announced that the
FIT Annual Luncheon
that will be held in Septmeber was completely
sold out and
urged people to become a member of the Couture
Council.
“I KNOW HOW POPULAR THIS EVENT IS EACH YEAR. SO
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT WANT TO ATTEND NEXT
YEAR---BUT ARE NOT YET COUTURE COUNCIL
MEMBERS---
I URGE YOU TO JOIN.”
Quintessentially
was
the generous sponsor for the even
The
Cultural Services Building of the French
Embassy,
972 Fifth Avenue between 78 and 79 Street.
The building’s architect is Stanford White
of
McKim, Mead and White.
The Style of the Architecture has kept with the
feel of the Gilded Age. Historically the
building is known as the
Payne Whitney New York City Townhouse.
The Cultural Services of the Embassy is
responsible for facilitating “cultural exchange”
between America and
France, a role the can be creative, informative or
merely administrative.
When:
Tuesday, August 17, Six until Eight o’clock
Why:
The Couture Council Summer Party kicked off
the ticket for
The Couture Council
annual benefit luncheon.
This year the luncheon will honor
Karl Lagerfeld
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The
Couture Council of The Museum at the
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will honor
Karl Lagerfeld with a special award on
Friday, September 10th
at a benefit luncheon at Avery Fisher Hall,
New York City.
Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at
FIT,
announced, “In recognition of his unparalleled role as a
creative force in the world of fashion, we have
chosen to bestow on Karl Lagerfeld,
The Couture Council
Fashion Visionary Award. This unique award was
created exclusively for Karl Lagerfeld. Since
his arrival at Chanel in 1983, Karl Lagerfeld has
brought the company to the
forefront of innovation and
creativity and
has continuously maintained Chanel's position as the
most coveted fashion label in the world. Not only is
Lagerfeld an inimitable designer, he is also an
acclaimed photographer,
publisher,
renowned collector, and a true connoisseur.” |
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About The
Couture Council:
The Couture Council is
a membership group dedicated to supporting The
Museum at FIT, a specialized museum of fashion. The
Couture Council helps make it possible for The
Museum to mount world-class exhibitions of fashion,
to acquire important objects for its permanent
collection, and to organize public programs, such as
the annual fashion symposium. The Couture Council
accomplishes these goals through collecting
membership dues and by organizing fundraising events
such as the annual Couture Council Awards Luncheon,
which presents a chosen designer with the Couture
Council Award for Artistry of Fashion.
Couture
Council Annual Membership is $1,000 per individual
or couple, or $350 for Young Associates (under the
age of 35). Membership is tax deductible to the
extent provided by law. Please make checks payable
to the Educational Foundation for the Fashion
Industries. Mail checks to The Museum at FIT,
attention: Couture Council, Seventh Avenue at 27th
Street, Director's Office, Room E304, New York City
10001-5992.
Members of the Couture Council receive invitations
to at least five special events a year, including
behind-the-scenes tours of The Museum's collection
and exhibitions, opening receptions, and visits to
the ateliers of fashion designers in New York.
Couture Council members are also the first to
receive notice of the annual Couture Council
Artistry of Fashion Award luncheon.
In
addition, Couture Council Members receive
complementary admittance for two to all Museum
educational programs, as well as the annual fashion
symposium, which includes an invitation to meet the
speakers at a cocktail reception at the home of
Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, The
Museum at FIT.
The
Couture Council of The Museum at FIT recently
established a board of directors that includes Liz
Peek (Interim Chair), Yaz Hernandez
(Interim Vice Chair), Adrienne Vitadinni,
Alexandra Lebenthal, Charlotte Moss,
Suzi Cordish, Michelle Harper, Celia
Hegyi, Eleanora Kennedy, Michele
Gerber Klein, Peter G. Scotese, Jean
Shafiroff, and Whitney Wolfe.
About The Museum at FIT:
The Museum at FIT
is the only museum in New York City dedicated solely
to the art of fashion. Best known for its innovative
and award-winning exhibitions, which have been
described by Roberta Smith in The New York Times as
“ravishing,” the museum has a collection of more
than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the
18th century to the present. Like other fashion
museums, such as the Musée de la Mode, the Mode
Museum, and the Museo de la Moda, The Museum at FIT
collects, conserves, documents, exhibits, and
interprets fashion. The museum’s mission is to
advance knowledge of fashion through exhibitions,
publications, and public programs.
Upcoming
exhibitions include Eco-Fashion,
Going Green, on view May 25 -
November 26, 2010, and Japan Fashion Now
on view September 17, 2010 - January 8, 2011.
Eco-Fashion: Going Green
is an exhibition exploring the evolution of the
fashion industry’s multifaceted and complex
relationship with the environment. By examining the
past two centuries of fashion’s good—and bad—
environmental and ethical practices. Eco-Fashion:
Going Green provides historical context for today’s
eco-fashion movement. Presented chronologically and
featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and
textiles, the exhibition uses contemporary methods
for “going green” as a framework to study the past.
The objects displayed touch upon at least one of six
major themes: the re-purposing and recycling of
materials, fiber origins, textile dyeing and
production, quality of craftsmanship, labor
practices, and the treatment of animals. Curated by
Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, the exhibition
features some of the finest examples of 21st-century
sustainable fashions by current, cutting-edge
labels, including Alabama Chanin, Edun, FIN, and
NOIR.
Japan Fashion Now
is the first exhibition to explore contemporary
Japanese fashion in all its radical creativity,
including not only avant-garde high fashion, but
also street and sub-cultural styles, menswear, and
new designers.
Set in a dramatic mise-en-scene evoking
Tokyo’s iconic cityscape, approximately 100
ensembles will be on display. Designers featured
include Jun Takahashi of Undercover
(described by journalist Suzy Menkes as “the essence
of Japanese cool”); Hirooka Naoto, the
designer behind h.NAOTO, Japan’s most successful
Gothic-Punk-Lolita fashion empire; and new designer
brands such as Sacai, Visvim, Phenomenon, and Matohu.
“Japan continues to be on the cutting edge, even the
bleeding edge, of fashion,” says exhibition curator,
Dr. Valerie Steele. “But it has moved far beyond the
cerebral deconstructed looks of the 1980s
Japanese fashion revolution.”
About FIT:
The Fashion Institute
of Technology (FIT), of which The Museum at FIT is a
part, is a college of art and design, business and
technology that educates more than 10,000 students
annually. FIT is a college of the State University
of New York (SUNY), and offers 44 majors leading to
the AAS, BFA, BS, MA, and MPS degrees.
Please visit
www.fitnyc.edu
About Quintessentially:
Quintessentially's discerning members around the
world enjoy an array of benefits carefully selected
to make a difference in their lives. Their team of
experts are on hand for everything from solving
pressing practical problems such as dinner
reservations and sourcing a good nanny to advice on
the latest fashion collections, travel experiences,
lifestyle trends, spur-of-the-moment chartered
yachts, theatre and nightlife recommendations plus
much more - providing nothing but the best insider
and specialist access, 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year.
With 55 offices worldwide,
Quintessentially has quickly become a global support
system for its members, wherever they may be. Visit
www.Quintessentially.com
The FIT Couture Council’s Annual Summer Party
is generously sponsored by
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please contact:
joyce@blacktiemagazine.com |
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