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Looking south from Houston Street towards One World Trade Center. 5:00 PM. Photo: JH.
Thursday, January 16, 2014. Sunny, mild, yesterday in New York with temps in the mid-40s. Terrible traffic. Yesterday, on my way down Fifth Avenue to Michael’s at almost one, there were blocks with only one lane open for traffic (bus lane always forbidden, especially to taxi drivers), plus double parked limousines and delivery trucks next to the parking lane. The upshot is time lost, of course, and much larger than, often double normal fares (sitting in traffic/tick-tick-tick). All provoking the inevitable universal question: WHY?
Early morning fog on the Upper West Side. 8 AM.
Eventually I got to Michael’s which was also mobbed and where I discovered I had a cancelled lunch but was saved by the company of HeadButler’s Jesse Kornbluth and Karen Collins (Mrs. Jesse).

Jesse Kornbluth and Karen Collins out on the town.
At Table One in the bay, Joan Rivers was lunching with Matt Lauer and Annette Roque (Mrs. Lauer). Next to them and to us, Rikki Klieman (Mrs. Bill Bratton) was hosting Kathy Lacey and Shirley Lord who just returned from a cruise on the beautiful blue Danube (according to Strauss).

Joan told us later she is not moving to Los Angeles (as I’ve read in various places). She would have sold her elegant duplex in one of the only Horace Trumbauer designed mansions in New York.

Someone offered her $25 million and she thought: I’d be crazy not to take it. So she was going to. Except the offer fell through, and Joan’s happy to be in her digs. She found that apartment years ago when she was looking at another apartment across the street. Looking out the window she spotted an empty penthouse and asked the realtor about it. She was told it was emptied having been occupied by a woman for many years who finally died there in her 90s.

Joan thought: good vibes. She bought it.
Joan still happy to be in her digs ...
Meanwhile, around the room: Joe Armstrong was back in town, lunching with Michael Berman; Glenn Horowitz was lunching with the great Oscar winning director and screenwriter Robert Benton.

Around the room at Michael's: 1. Donna and Richard Soloway 2. Star Jones 3. Henry Schleiff 4. Bill Bratton and Rikki Klieman 5. Les Hinton 6. Jack Kliger 7. Vin Cipolla 8. Dan Abrams 9. Cliff Robbins 10. Karl Spangenberg.
Across the aisle, Donna and Richard Soloway were lunching with Richard Johnson and Bill McCuddy; next door, Stan Shuman; next to him, Hearst Magazine president David Carey; Marie Claire’s Ann Fulenwider lunching with Diane Clehane; Estee Lauder marketing vp, Alexandra Trower; Klaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA’s PS1 in Queens; United Stations Radio’s Nick Verbitsky; Star Jones with Marie Claire publisher Nancy Berger Cardone and her associate Brent Allen; Henry Schleiff of Discovery; Randy Jones of Patriarch Partner with publc relations executive Dan Scheffey.

Nearby: Ralph Destino Sr.; Stu Zakim of Bridge Strategic Communications; Jim Smith of Niche Media; Les Hinton, British-American journalist and former CEO of Dow-Jones; Municipal Arts Society’s Vin Cipolla with PR exec Lisa Linden; attorney Richard DeScherer; producer Joan Gelman with Joan Hamburg; Gus Wenner, son of Jann; Jack Kliger of TV Guide with Hearst Chair Emeritus, Susan Blond, sporting a new aui naturel coif; Dan Abrams with Vicky Ward; John Paton of El Diario; Cliff Robbins (Blue Harbor Group); Barry Frey of Digital Place-Based Advertising; Jim Casella of Case Interactive Media; Karl Spangenberg of Medialink; Krishan Bhatia of NBC.

Catching up. This past Monday night Liz Goldwyn, Karen Elson and Tonne Goodman of Vintage Vanguard hosted a cocktail and silent auction for the benefit of Dress For Success at the Jane Ballroom on 113 Jane Street. For the guests’ pleasure, 20 designers including Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Marchesa, Zac Posen, Thakoon, Eddie Borgo, Tabitha Simmons, Creatures of the Wind, re-worked 20 vintage pieces from the Goldwyn-Elson vintage collections.
The scene at the Jane Ballroom to benefit Dress for Success.
20 designers re-worked 20 vintage pieces from the Goldwyn-Elson vintage collections.
Ms. Elson also performed, as did DJ Tennessee Thomas.

Among those attending were Karlie Kloss, Zac Posen, Lauren Santo Domingo, Shane Glabler and Christopher Peters, Erin Beatty, Zani Gukgelmann, Derek Blasberg, Julie Macklowe, Natalie Joos, Albertus Swanepjoel, Deborah Nicodemus and Joi Gordon, CEO of Dress for Success Worldwide. www.dressforsuccess.org.
Karen Elson, DJ Tennessee Thomas, and Liz Goldwyn.
Marina Rust.Joi Gordon.Cindy Weber Cleary.
Indre Rockefeller.Karla Martinez and Rory Hermelee.Tonne Goodman.
Meredith Melling Burke and Valerie Boster.Shane Gabier and Chris Peters.
Meredith Melling Burke, Lauren Santo Domingo, Indre Rockefeller, Valerie Boster, and Hayley Bloomingdale.
Tennessee Thomas.Amy Astley.
Ann Dexter Jones.Erin Beatty.Zani Gugelmann.
Hamish Bowles, Karen Elson, Tonne Goodman, and Liz Goldwyn.
Karen Elson, Hamish Bowles, and Liz Goldwyn.Elizabeth Kurpis and Julia Loomis.
Karlie Kloss, Derek Blasberg, Karen Elson, and Liz Goldwyn.
Zac Posen.Jenke-Ahmed Tailly and Stephanie LaCava.Julie Macklowe.
Dr. Lisa Airan.Deborah Nicodemus and Lauren Santo Domingo.
Sarah Sophie Flicker, Lauren Santo Domingo, Liz Goldwyn, Zac Posen, Karen Elson, and Tennessee Thomas.
Karen Elson and Liz Goldwyn.
Also, down in Palm Beach in the Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, last Saturday night Susan B. Komen Foundation of South Florida hosted their Perfect Pink Gala where they raised $1.5 million. Our friend Christopher Walling donated an emerald brooch of his design that brought $30,000 at the auction.
Christopher Walling's emerald brooch which fetched $30,000 at the auction.
 

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