The Winter Ball

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Chairmen of the Director's Council with Susan Henshaw Jones, Director of MCNY, at Museum of the City of New York's Winter Ball.

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The Director's Council of the Museum of the City of New York hosted the annual Winter Ball gala last Wednesday night at the Pierre. Sponsored by Dennis Basso, this was the 29th and most financially successful, raising more than $575,000 for the museum programs, with 470 attending the black-tie evening.

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Scott and Leah Soltas

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Tantivy Gubelmann and Peter Allatt

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Renee Rockefeller and Jill Roosevelt

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Helena Lehane and Eric Javits

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Sloan and Alexander Overstrom

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Whitney and Henry Topping

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Clifford and Lea Carpenter Brokaw with Tara and Michael Rockefeller

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The Brokaws and Marina Rust and Ian Connor

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Pamela Fielder and David Ford

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Lea Carpenter Brokaw, Mark Gilbertson, and Marina Rust Connor

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Tolomy Erpf and Danielle Tosi

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Dennis Basso, Michael Cominotto, and Alexandra Lebenthal

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Simone Elliott and Barton Bland

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Jennifer Creel

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Casey Sills

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Burwell and Paul Schorr

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Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and Stephanie Foster

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Webb Egerton and Lee Robinson

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Polina Proshkina

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Alex Lind and Louis Rose

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Chiu-Ti Jansen

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Annabelle and Gregory Fowkes

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Yana Balan and Yung Hee Kim

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Eric Villency and Caroline Fare

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Evelyn Tompkins and Robert Buxton

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Charlie and Sara Ayres with Christine and Steve Schwarzman

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Randy Kemper and Tony Ingrao

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Dr. Doug Steinbrech, Polly Onet, and Martha and John Glass

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Chris and Amanda Meigher

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Barbara Regna and Kristyna Halouzkova

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George and Anne Baker with Tatiana and Thorne Perkin

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Nina Junot and Martha Glass

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Kathy and Orthon Prounis

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Ara and Rachel Hovnanian

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Mary Kathryn Navab and Alex Navab

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Victor Geraci and Amy Hoadley

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Anjali and Prakash Melwani

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Dr. Steven Butensky, Di Petroff, and Marshall Heyman

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Karen Klopp, Chappy Morris, and Debbie Bancroft

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Jill and Andrew Roosevelt

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Frederick Anderson, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, and Marisa Noel Brown and Matthew Brown

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Brian and Lisa McCarthy

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Helen Lee Shifter with Fran and Ros L'Esperance

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Liliana Cavendish and Di Mondo

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Angela Stump, Nicole Miller, and Stephanie Clark

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Amy Fine Collins

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Julian Gratry and Jamie Tisch

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Natalie Leeds Leventhal and Christopher Spitzmiller

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Meg and Doug Braff

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Kristen and Charles Krusen

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Allison and Peter Rockefeller

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Dr. Patrick Stubgen and Dana Stubgen

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Leonel Piraino and Nina Griscom

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Julia Weld and Kamie Lightburn

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Mark Gilbertson, Trevor Traina, and George Farias

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Merrill Curtis, Nicole Hanley Mellon, and Lesley Schulhof

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Yana Balan, Yan Assoun, and Polina Proshkina

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Frederick Anderson and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes

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Annabel Vartanian Jeffries

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Kalioppe Karella

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Ashley McDermott

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Mary and Guy Van Pelt

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Lacary Sharpe and Linda Pratka

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Julia Koch, William Astor, and Peggy Siegal

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Chris and Kate Allen

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Libby Fitzgerald, Tara Rockefeller, and Lisa McCarthy

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Chele Chiavacci and Richard Farley

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Christine and Steve Schwarzman

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Tory Burch and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos

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Alex Rose, Nathalie Kaplan, and friend

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Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner

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Nancy Sambuco and Kristen Clark

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Jennifer Cacioppo with Philip and Lisa Gorrivan

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Jared Goss and Susan Henshaw Jones, Director of MCNY

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Averell Mortimer and Bruce Colley

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Mary and Ian Snow

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John and Jackie Santos, Peeka and Art Tildesley, Evelyn Tomkins, Robert Buxton, Tracey and Bob Boyle, and Tolomy Erpf

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Alexandra Porter and her table

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Last Thursday afternoon designer Reem Acra hosted an exclusive afternoon of champagne and beautiful dresses at her fifth avenue boutique to benefit The Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries. Guests enjoyed a private viewing of the designer's personal collection of traditional Arab world garments, and guests were able to see first hand Ms. Acra’s pre-fall 2014 collection.

The Host Committee for the event included: Muna Rihani Al-Nasser, Jacqueline Weld Drake, Patricia Kluge, Ann Nitze, Susan Pillsbury, Sana Sabbagh, Dame Jillian Sackler DBE, Barbara Tober and Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries.

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Reem Acra, Pilar wearing Reem Acra, and Montgomery Frazier

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Modeling Reem Acra ...

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Guests included: Mona Aboelnaga, Reem Acra, Muna Rihani Al-Nasser, Judy Auchincloss, Mariam Azarm, Anait Bian, Catherine Petree-Biron, Noreen Buckfire, Karen Burke, Alyson Cafiero, Melba Ruffo di Calabria, Giosetta Capriati, Isabel Carden, Lila Castellaneta, Joan Hardy Clarke, Samia Faroukl, Montgomery Frazier, Nawel Gergi, Susan Gutfreund, Cathy Hardwick, Ingie Hassan, Kathleen Hearst, Marlene Herring, Ranya Idilby, Irene Moscahlaidis, Maxine Janes, Jaime Jimenez, Nina Junot, Michèle Gerber Klein, Meriel Lari, Benjamin Le Hay, Jonathan Marder, Sylvia and John Mazzola, Clara Menaldino, Ben Mindich, Katy Mundell, Ann Nitze, Pam Owens, Corinne Plumhoff, Lee Robinson, Kathryn Rotella, Joanna Roth, Sana Sabbagh, Judith Schlosser, Stephanie Stokes, Barbara Tober, Evelyn Tompkins, Diana Tsao, Susan Zaro, and Katie Ziglar.

A percentage of everything that was sold during the event was generously donated to The Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries.