left to right: Susan Silver, Steven Simon, Blaine Trump; John & Marie Helene Dempsey; Aileen Mehle, Jacqueline Weld Drake, John Dempsey
Gala cochairs Alina Cho and Cornelia Guest were joined by dinner chairmen Jacqueline Weld Drake, Aileen Mehle, and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and dozens of local notables welcoming each other back from summer vacations and discussing their plans to attend the annual dinner and dancing. The dinner will be held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on October 22nd to raise funds for the agency, which empowers Bronx youth and their families through social, cultural and education opportunities.
left to right: Alina Cho, John Dempsey, Jackie Weld Drake, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, and Cornelia Guest; Sharon Hoge and Catherine Cahill.
The home’s walls are covered with an extensive collection of Fornasetti art and collector photographs by the likes of Bert Stern and Richard Avedon but it was almost impossible to see them in the crush of Victoria Anstead, Sara and Tim Armento, Peter Bacanovic, Paola Bacchini, Barbie Bancroft, Edgar Batista, Enrica Bentivoglio, Kelly Bensimon, Melissa Berkelhammer, Veronique Bich, Maryann Browning, Martha Bograd, Mercedes Bograd, Carolyn Bryant, Jason Brandt, Estrellita Brodsky, Sila Calderon, Sarah Calderon, Liliana Cavendish, Anna Cleveland, Robert Couturier, Howard Cox, Ellie Cullman, John Dempsey, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Milly de Cabrol, Jacqueline Weld Drake, Tiffany Dubin, Beverly Durham, Gaetana Enders, George Farias, Cynthia Frank, Jamie Figg, Rick Friedberg, Marina Gauthier, Marilyn Gauthier, Cornelia Guest, Carol Guest, Fred Guest, Mark Gilbertson, Tom Gold, Jamee Gregory, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Jo Hallingby, Eric Javits and Di Mondo, Elizabeth Jacoby, Ann Dexter Jones, Sharon Handler Loeb, Michele Gerber Klein, Roy Kean, Monica Rich Kosann, Sandra Lee, Marcia Levine, Christopher Mason, Marina Maher, Aileen Mehle, Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner, Gautam Patel, Liz Peek, Zac Posen, Polina Proshkina, Ann Rapp, Marc Rosen, Paola and Arnie Rosenshein, Sonna Saba, Sally Schwartz, Susan Silver, Hunt Slonem, Steve Sodove, Lady Sharon Sondes, Barbara Tober, Blaine Trump, Alex Trower, Chris Trump, Geoffrey Thomas, Samantha Thompson, Adrienne Vittadini, Linda Wells, Kristi Witker and Rich Wilkie, Martha Wirth.
