Winter Wonderland

The 18th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner in the Stephan Weiss Studio at the Urban Zen Center.

Last Friday night at The New York Botanical Garden, they celebrated the annual Winter Wonderland Ball. More than 450 attended. This a traditional dinner dance and refreshing in its simplicity, elegance and tradition. The Ball was held in the magnificent Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the Garden’s Victorian-style crystal palace.

On view in the Conservatory was the 22nd Annual Holiday Train Show®— an internationally acclaimed display of magnificent model trains winding through a sprawling landscape featuring replicas of iconic New York landmarks.

The evening began with cocktails under the Palm Dome in the grand rotunda, continiing with dinner and dancing in an adjacent beautifully-designed tent.

The evening raised more than $250,000 for the Garden’s Children’s Education programs. These programs allow children (of all ages), particularly underserved children in the Bronx, an opportunity to learn about nature in engaging ways through workshops and hands-on activities.

The Chairs were Byrdie Bell, Alina Cho, Cristina Cuomo, Linda Fargo, Brooke Gerschel, Emma J.P. Goergen, Patrick M. Herning, Annie Lansing, Alexandra Lebenthal, Christian Leone, Dalia Oberlander, Connie Anne Phillips, Alexandra Lind Rose, Gillian Hearst Simonds, and Sutton Stracke.

The Junior Chairs were Genevieve Bahrenburg, Hannah Bronfman, Sarah Chilton, Martin Dawson, Nell Diamond, Julia Catherine Erdman, Simon Hammerstein, Olivia Sandelman, and Victoria A. Thain.

The Honorary Chairmen were Sloan Barnett, Whitney Fairchild, Pauline Joerger, Nathalie Kaplan, and Molly Sims.

The Ball was generously sponsored by Bergdorf Goodman. Additional funding was provided by Glamour and Perrin Paris 1893 with support from Sally and Michel Perrin. The dinner was catered by Stephen STARR Events, the new on-site catering partner for The New York Botanical Garden.

Martin Jobes Design designed the Ball tent.

Adelina Wong Ettelson, Alvin Valley, and Whitney Fairchild

Jared MacLane and Katherine Petty MacLane

Laurel Marcus, Rosemary Ponzo, and Marilyn Kirschner

Connor Feagan and Geoffrey Jackson

Jennifer Wright

Douglas Lake and Elizabeth Lake

Pamela Lewy and Brian Murphy

Chris York, Kristin York, Meghan Brophy, and Richard Persutti

Andrew Wallace and Olivia Millot

Cristina Greeven Cuomo, Genevieve Bahrenburg, Alexandra Lebenthal, Alina Cho, and Alexandra Lind Rose

Bettina Zilkha, Jay Diamond, and Alexandra Lebenthal

Gregory Clark and Connie Anne Phillips

Brooke Rohrbach and Robert Bailey

Julie Tucker and Adam Tucker

Micca Wang

Elizabeth Kurpis, Vanessa Grout, and Melanie Lazenby

Ashley Sousa and Raymond Vargas

Jean Shafiroff, Victor de Souza, and Anne-Marie Belli

Scott Stackman and Emily Sherratt

Ally Hilfiger and Alina Cho

Luigi Tadini and Steven Cardwell

Dr. Eve Lehrman and Peter Lehrman

Alexandra Lind Rose

Brittany Weeden and Jared Abrams

Robbie Schroeder, Katherine Grady, Molly Bohonnon, and Michael Young

Ariana Rockefeller and Matthew Bucklin

Bill Reichman, Pamela Reichman, Courtney Stern, and Nicholas Stern

Chiu-Ti Jansen

Sally Perrin and Michel Perrin

Adam and Joy Marks

Andrew Torrey and Peter Kahng

Thomas Bell and Dr. Susan Krysiewicz

Roman Johnson and Tracey High

Gillian Miniter

Campbell O'Shea and Patrick O'Shea

Jeremy Schwab, Diana Seabrooke, Jackie Seabrooke, and Michael Ivers

Valentin Hernandez and Yaz Hernandez

Alex Bolen and Eliza Reed Bolen

Tiffany Archer

Sarah Rose, James Johnson, Patti Healy, and Samantha Pebley

Elizabeth Kurpis, Katie Fischer Cherry, Spencer Cherry, and Chloé Perrin

Edouard Gerschel and Nathalie Kaplan

Chrissy Rutherford

Frederick Anderson and Alvin Valley

Michael Allwin and Lily Galef

Meredith Ostrom, Allison Hodge, and Lauren Beene

Allison Ecung, Kim Hicks, and Allison Yang

Fritz Franz and Miller Gaffney

Nell Diamond, Savannah Engel, Tory Gossage, and Lauren Whatley

Alexandra Lambert and Lexi Bowes-Lyon

Last Wednesday a week ago, InStyle Magazine, Tiffany & Co. and The Urban Zen Foundation presented the 18th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner in the Stephan Weiss Studio at the Urban Zen Center.

Ariel Foxman, InStyle’s Editor hosted the evening, and Jessye Norman paid special tribute to the late Judy Peabody for her unsurpassed care and compassion towards those living with HIV and AIDS; Sam and Elizabeth Peabody accepted in her memory. Artist Jack Pierson presented Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz with the Artists Ending AIDS Award, and Darren Star honored Martha Nelson for her leadership, commitment to and support of the organization over the years.

Over $400,000 was raised to help people living with HIV and AIDS live longer, healthier lives. Hosts for the evening were Ross Bleckner, Francisco Costa, Gabby and Gianpaolo DeFelice, Ariel Foxman, Donna Karan, David Kleinberg and Jack Pierson.

Sheila Johnson and Donna Karan

Samuel Peabody, Jessye Norman, and David Kleinberg

Jay Johnson and Tom Cashin

Kyle DeWoody and Casey Fremont Crowe

Sam Shahid and AJ Michel

Eric Wilson, Malcolm Carfrae, and Quin Aluni

Ellen Langan, Rob Pruitt, and Brendan Dugan

Jack Pierson, Elizabeth Peyton, Jamie Kenyon, and Jonathan Horowitz

Cindy Weber Cleary

Kristen Somody Whalen and Seth Whalen

Martha Nelson, Quinn Tivey, and Dan Tietz

Bruce Weber and Donna Karan

Max Osterweis

Elizabeth Peabody, Alan Rogers, and Laurie Taylor

Clay Floren and Matthew Owens

Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, Indre Rockefeller, and Justin Rockefeller

Joanna Kane and Liz Flynn

Chelsea Leyland and Kate Foley

John DeStefano, Francisco Costa, and Derek Hester

Kelly Klein and Calvin Klein

Ariel Foxman and Bernadette Peters

Kevin Baker and Donald Baechler

Priscilla Rattazzi, Andrea Whittle, and Isabel Rattazzi

Alexander Gilkes and Misha Nonoo

Bruce Weber and Nan Bush

Elia and Mariana Zois

Gabby de Felice

Michael Angel and Mark Burnett

Darren Star and Martha Nelson

Graziano di Boni and Valerie di Boni

Roopal Patel

Ross Bleckner, Dan Tietz, and Jamison Ernest

Nacole Snoep and Meredith Melling Burke

Garrett Neff

Victor de Souza, Dawne Marie Grannum, Randy Polumbo, and Meghan Boody

Also last Friday night at the Park Avenue Armory, they held an opening night benefit for "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic" directed by Robert Wilson, featuring Ms. Abramovic and Willem Defoe. The play runs through this Saturday.