Out & About
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Some parents go to benefits and parties to take a break from child rearing. In the case of Young Audiences New York, children are the most exciting presence. At the nonprofit’s annual benefit earlier this month, a dinner at the Marriott Marquis, Young Audiences’ president, Lynne Randall, and executive director, Joanne Bernstein-Cohen, were well-spoken advocates of the organization’s arts education programs, which bring teaching artists in front of 21,000 children annually. But it was the children from Brooklyn and Queens that night who proved their efficacy. They danced, sang, and even were masters of ceremonies, after participating in workshops at their schools on folktales, jazz, and ceramics. This year’s event honored the president of broadcast at Zenith Media, Peggy Green, and actor Richard Thomas.
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The fashion story at last week’s celebration of Dolce & Gabbana was, in keeping with the time of year, betwixt and between. Some, like Eleanor Ylvisaker, Donna D’Cruz, and Sale Johnson, were all bundled up for winter. They did look elegant, but I hope those were the last fur, muffs, and mittens I see until fall. On the bright and sunny side, Genevieve Jones dressed as springy as the boxes of tulips that appeared outside Bouley over the weekend.
As for Vogue’s Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s showing up in pinstripe pants instead of a dress, we completely understand. She is simply too busy planning the Party of the Year – the benefit for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which Anna Wintour is a chairwoman – to think of stockings and heels. That and perhaps she wanted to match the attire of Dolce & Gabbana USA’s president, Glenn McMahon. Ms. Wolkoff’s cohosts for this event, Nina Davidson and Camilla Al Fayed (daughter of the owner of Harrod’s), looked pretty in their D&G frocks.
Others attending: Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, who are in Palm Beach with their children Serena and Quint during the private school break this week, Jennifer Creel, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Natalie Leeds, and Valerie Boster.
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Overheard – can you guess who? “I’ve been speaking at a lot of funerals lately – all my trustees are dying,” the president of one of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions said recently.
