The Winter Ball

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

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.

Scott and Leah Soltas

Tantivy Gubelmann and Peter Allatt

Renee Rockefeller and Jill Roosevelt

Helena Lehane and Eric Javits

Sloan and Alexander Overstrom

Whitney and Henry Topping

Clifford and Lea Carpenter Brokaw with Tara and Michael Rockefeller

The Brokaws and Marina Rust and Ian Connor

Pamela Fielder and David Ford

Lea Carpenter Brokaw, Mark Gilbertson, and Marina Rust Connor

Tolomy Erpf and Danielle Tosi

Dennis Basso, Michael Cominotto, and Alexandra Lebenthal

Simone Elliott and Barton Bland

Jennifer Creel

Casey Sills

Burwell and Paul Schorr

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and Stephanie Foster

Webb Egerton and Lee Robinson

Polina Proshkina

Alex Lind and Louis Rose

Chiu-Ti Jansen

Annabelle and Gregory Fowkes

Yana Balan and Yung Hee Kim

Eric Villency and Caroline Fare

Evelyn Tompkins and Robert Buxton

Charlie and Sara Ayres with Christine and Steve Schwarzman

Randy Kemper and Tony Ingrao

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

Chris and Amanda Meigher

Barbara Regna and Kristyna Halouzkova

George and Anne Baker with Tatiana and Thorne Perkin

Nina Junot and Martha Glass

Kathy and Orthon Prounis

Ara and Rachel Hovnanian

Mary Kathryn Navab and Alex Navab

Victor Geraci and Amy Hoadley

Anjali and Prakash Melwani

Dr. Steven Butensky, Di Petroff, and Marshall Heyman

Karen Klopp, Chappy Morris, and Debbie Bancroft

Jill and Andrew Roosevelt

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

Brian and Lisa McCarthy

Helen Lee Shifter with Fran and Ros L'Esperance

Liliana Cavendish and Di Mondo

Angela Stump, Nicole Miller, and Stephanie Clark

Amy Fine Collins

Julian Gratry and Jamie Tisch

Natalie Leeds Leventhal and Christopher Spitzmiller

Meg and Doug Braff

Kristen and Charles Krusen

Allison and Peter Rockefeller

Dr. Patrick Stubgen and Dana Stubgen

Leonel Piraino and Nina Griscom

Julia Weld and Kamie Lightburn

Mark Gilbertson, Trevor Traina, and George Farias

Merrill Curtis, Nicole Hanley Mellon, and Lesley Schulhof

Yana Balan, Yan Assoun, and Polina Proshkina

Frederick Anderson and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes

Annabel Vartanian Jeffries

Kalioppe Karella

Ashley McDermott

Mary and Guy Van Pelt

Lacary Sharpe and Linda Pratka

Julia Koch, William Astor, and Peggy Siegal

Chris and Kate Allen

Libby Fitzgerald, Tara Rockefeller, and Lisa McCarthy

Chele Chiavacci and Richard Farley

Christine and Steve Schwarzman

Tory Burch and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos

Alex Rose, Nathalie Kaplan, and friend

Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner

Nancy Sambuco and Kristen Clark

Jennifer Cacioppo with Philip and Lisa Gorrivan

Jared Goss and Susan Henshaw Jones, Director of MCNY

Averell Mortimer and Bruce Colley

Mary and Ian Snow

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

Alexandra Porter and her table

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.

Reem Acra, Pilar wearing Reem Acra, and Montgomery Frazier

Modeling Reem Acra ...

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.