Out & About
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Hunting Down a Party
There were enough real britches and riding jackets at the Frick Collection’s Young Fellows ball to suggest that genuine hunters and equestrians were among the guests.
“I would say there’s a special feeling being one with an animal,” Dr. Avik Roy, who rode the weekend before the party at the Yale Polo Club in New Haven, Conn., said.
Vanity Fair’s fashion editor, Alexis Bryan, rode in Ireland two months ago; her boyfriend, Colm O’Keefe, raises horses. Designer Maggie Norris said she rides in Connecticut and Paris. Investment banker George Marroig-Tagle recalled hunting and riding in Argentina “a long time ago.”
“My mom’s the fox hunter,” Ryan Hurst, who runs a jewelry company, said.
“There’s a sense of freedom,” real estate broker Mark Powell, who last went riding in Surrey, England, in December, said.
“The last time I went riding was on the carousel in Central Park and I was terrified,” the head of paintings conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gallagher, said.
There was some hunting and gathering going on at the party, too. Designer Angel Sanchez brought together a group of 17 women wearing his dresses for a portrait.
