September 2005 - Manhattan Society.com
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September 2005 - Manhattan Society.com
Manhattan Society Report The Young Landmarks Celebration to Benefit New York Landmarks Conservancy Alexandra Coolidge, Melissa Berkelhammer, Faran Krentcil Elisabeth Gutowski and Laura Lachman THE SPIRIT of philanthropy is very much alive and well on the east end of Long Island this summer. The season launches with the Central Park Conservancy’s Taste of Summer event, and then the charitable scene moves from New York City to the Hamptons. It is an annual ritual indeliby marked in every elite social calendar. Cocktails and check writing in grandiose settings filled with beautiful people, dressed in the finest clothes, casual but stylish. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, from Southampton to Easthampton the most affluent who regularly compete against one in another in the game of life on the streets, boardrooms, court rooms and exchanges of Manhattan bring their friendly competition to see who can give away the most money on the east end of Long Island while looking fabulous, fit and tanned. The New York social calendar is full with a multitude of worthwhile causes, community and charitable events benefitting the less 150 PRESTIGE SEPTEMBER 2005 The Group for the South Fork Benefit and Auction at Wolffer Estate Vineyard in The Hamptons Lydia Hearst Shaw and Gillian Hearst Shaw from Christopher London in New York Anne Colley, VIP Guest and Heather Henriksen fortunate. The challenge to the social and charitably minded consumer is how to choose from an array of grandiose parties, many of which would shame the Great Gatsby. New Yorkers of means take great pride in their environments, principally Central Park and the Hamptons; two of the most favoured and revered spaces of land. To them, the preservation and conservancy of beauty, nature’s bounty, is one of society’s highest callings. The bold, beautiful and powerful Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richthofen Central Park Conservancy, Taste of Summer 2005 Fundraiser in the Park Far left: Lisa Anastos and Amy Porter Stroh Left: Mona Wyatt and Samantha Leas Jeremiah Silva and Nicole Wright patronise fundraisers for the Central Park Conservancy in New York City and in the Hamptons, The Group for the South Fork. Ironically, the task of preserving the beauty of New York treasures often seems to be the province of a few of the city’s most well-heeled and quite beautiful and stylish socialites. And they look so darn good doing it! These people are in essence “Mother Nature’s” little helpers. While many could be more easily seduced by the creature comforts Kabul Nights -- A Soho Fundraiser for The Rebuilding Afghanistan Foundation Right: Alexandra Wilkis, Andrew Black, Lara Meiland and Claude Shaw Below left: Designer Andrea Victor, Susan Shin and The Princess Diaries actress Anne Hathaway IJim Watkins, Cindy Adams, Somers White and Kristen Krusen 152 PRESTIGE SEPTEMBER 2005 of their affluent lifestyles, a number of them such as Gillian Miniter, a chairwoman of the Playground Partners Conservancy benefits, Karen Lefrak, President of the Women’s Committee and other Women’s Committee Members, Samantha Topping, Nina Bauer and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, women of prominence and affluence who are well wired into the high end fundraising circuitry of the Cocktail Party to launch jewellery designer Michelle Farmer's 2005 Collection in East Hampton, New York Designer Betsey Johnson and daughter Lulu Johnson metropolis, creatively invest their time, energy, spirit and creativity towards preservation. At the junior level, Young Associates, Susan Shin, Christine Cachot, Coralie Charriol, Lisa Anastos, Blair Husain, Adelina Wong Ettelson are up and coming women to watch as well. This is counter to the perception that the beautiful women of the aristocratic classes in New York City and the Hamptons merely shop and do lunch. While I am certain that there are those who choose to spend their days that way, others do not. Their social calling is society’s gain. In the Hamptons, a woman most certainly to watch is Ann Colley of the Moore Charitable Foundation (directed by financier Louis Bacon & his wife Cynthia Ingraham) 154 PRESTIGE SEPTEMBER 2005 Auction at Christies Auction House to benefit The Central Park Conservancy Rush Philanthropic's Art For Life Garden Party Benefit Kickoff Cocktails Timothy Baum, Karen Amiel and designer Richard Mishaan Far left: Shamin Abas, Centre: Michelle Farmer and Frank Cilione Below right: Star Jones Reynolds, Russell Simmons and Frances Hayward Cilione 10th Annual Taste of Summer Benefit for the Central Park Conservancy 3rd Annual Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund Benefit Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick and wife Allison Lutnick and her friends in the fashion and wall street community, including the likes of friends and supporters like Nicole Miller, Cynthia Rowley, Debbie Bancroft, Douglas Hannant, Gillian HearstShaw, Lydia Hearst, Annie Churchill, Tinsley Mortimer and Luigi Tadini. At the centre of it all is Society Publicist and a maestro of sorts, R Couri Hay. If it is happening, in all likelihood, one of his friends is involved with it. Their intimate and glamorous cocktail and dinner parties are not without purpose. What matters to these women is far more than their style and good manners, even though both are always quite impeccable and would make Emily Post as well as Tom Ford proud. Until next time. Best, Christopher London, Right: Dana Gers of Salavtore Ferragamo USA and Eric Villency President, Maurice Villency and Guest Dennis Paul, Adelina Wong Ettelson and Dr. Lisa Airan Lisa Airan 3rd Annual I Star Financial Charity Shootout at Madison Square Garden to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation of New York City & Human Rights First CEO iStar Financial, Jay Sugarman and family 156 PRESTIGE SEPTEMBER 2005