AVENUE March 2016 by AVENUE Magazine

AVENUE MARCH 2016

THE fashion ISSUE

Beyond The Byline AMY FINE COLLINS How She Became the Arbiter of Style

INSIDE: Resort Royalty Ala Isham and The Annual Best Dressed List

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DEAR READERS, FOR THIS MONTH’S fashion issue we celebrate two unique women. The first, Ala Isham, is someone I’ve known from a distance all of my life. Youthful, spirited and fun, she always seemed like a cool person to be around and made a good impression on me even as young girl. There was a bit of an aura around her, which I never fully understood until I was about eleven and found a copy of the famous Vanity Fair article by Dominick Dunne at the local library. And then I, like just about everyone in America at the time, became absorbed and fascinated by the von Bülow trial. In the days before reality TV, it was the story that swept the nation. Ala was exposed to a tidal wave of media attention. She was in her early 20s at the time, and to have had her life on

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“All of this shows Amy not only to be a great leader in her field but also a bit of a pioneer in her own right.” Amy Fine Collins

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display under some of the most appalling circumstances imaginable, must have been a simply hideous experience. When I got the email announcing that she was creating a new line of kaftans, inspired in part by her mother’s style, I was pretty impressed by her decision to willingly put her head above the parapet. Starting anything new is brave, starting a fashion line after raising your four children is even more impressive, but facing your fears by talking to the media after an ordeal like the one she went through is being brave on a superhero level. Ala, by speaking to the press, is going to prick and deflate that bubble of interest around her. The trial and the circumstances of her mother’s death are probably always going to retain a fascination for some, but the more that Ala lets the world see that she’s a normal person who has moved on from that period in her life, the more the ghosts of her past can be laid to rest. 6 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • MARCH 2016

Amy Fine Collins is also a true original. I first met Amy at Vanity Fair while doing research. I’ve found her to be a wonderful friend and mentor, but I was in the dark about many aspects of her background until reading Susan Fales-Hill’s wonderful piece on her. I had no idea about her Southern upbringing or her conscious decision to highlight the less conventional aspects of her looks, or even her success in having fashion journalism viewed through a more academic lens. All of this shows Amy not only to be a great leader in her field but also a bit of a pioneer in her own right. I’m delighted she’s on the cover and hope you will enjoy Ronald James’ photos. If the clothes make the woman, then what a woman! Enjoy the issue. Daisy Prince

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OBJECTS OF DESIRE Leisure at its finest

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TRENDSCAPE

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OUR FAIR LADY

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BEST DRESSED

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this page (On upper left) Amy Fine Collins photographed by Ronald James. Styled and produced by Freddie Leiba. Hair and Makeup by Maysoon Faraj. Amy wears a custom-made yellow silk chiffon gown by Carolina Herrera. Shoes by Manolo Blahnik. Available at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Avenue. Diamond Icon bracelet with 22.48 cts, Diamond Swirl Top earrings with 10.62 cts, Diamond Swirl ring with 10.90 cts, all by GRAFF. Available at GRAFF New York, 710 Madison Avenue, 212.355.9292, graffdiamonds.com.

Kelly Gale photographed by Ryan E. Plett. Styled by Emily Barnes. Makeup by Bobby Bujisic for NARS Cosmetics/Judy Casey Inc. Hair by Yoichi Tomizawa for Shiseido Professional at Art Dept. Fashion Assistance by Kacey Bennett. F.R.S. For Restless Sleepers geometric printed jacket in silk. Available at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Avenue, 800.558.1855. Large nude rayon Cady pants with pink and black sequins and embroidered stripes, by Emanuel Ungaro. Cadar Solo Prime and sole stacking rings, by Cadar. More information on cadar.com.

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DETAILED DEBUT A toast to Huntsman—the bespoke tailor now open on 57th Street

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EN! MEN! HUNTSMAN! I can’t remember the last time I was at a dinner where men outnumbered women three to one. But such was the clubby, cult dinner for the opening of the revered Huntsman bespoke tailor on 57th Street in New York—the first Savile Row tailor in the United States. (And well they should be, as 60 percent of their lucky clients are Americans.) In a madly elevated version of its Trump-esque/ Remington Shavers tagline (“I liked it so much, I bought the company”), the uber elegant hedge fund manager Pierre Lagrange did just that. “I’m proud to be the custodian of Huntsman and to back the craft of bespoke garment making so relevant to our modern life. It is similar to when I first experimented with Eric Ripert and James Rothschild, Nicky Hilton bespoke Holland & Holland guns and a custom Harley Davidson motorcycle, Jay McInerney Rothschild before I became the owner of Huntsman!” Pierre, Jay McInerney and Tony Peck hosted the opening dinner with the Huntsman team—Campbell Carey, Dario Carnera and Michael Anderson—in Le Bernardin’s private dining room, with silk pocket scarves (I am sewing a pocket on my sheath) commemorating the evening. The tables were named for legendary clients: Gregory Peck (whose clothes hung, still in perfect condition, in a nearby antique wardrobe, 57th Street bound, complete with a checklist of what a gentleman would need for a six-week sail), John Warner (where Jay McInerney was seated, and who commented to me, “Really! You get Gregory Peck, and I get John Warner!” The senator does have his fans.), Gianni Agnelli, Rex Harrison, Lucian Freud, Pierre Lagrange, Johnny Allen, Michael Anderson, Benny Goodman, Henry Kissinger, Stewart Granger and Katharine Campbell Carey and Dario Carnera Hepburn! I was happily ensconced at the Peck table—both Gregory’s in spirit and that of his son, Tony, who was wearing one of his father’s 55-year-old, still perfect Huntsman suits. He told me, “Wearing my father’s clothes is both an honor and a pleasure: the honor of inhabiting his garments and the pleasure of wearing these garments of perfect craftsmanship.” Honor abounded—the centerpieces had ceramic poppies within, from the Tower of London’s tribute to the 100th anniversary of World War I and to all the soldiers who perished during that long-ago conflict. (Huntsman bought a poppy for each of their 362 clients from among that Bernard Lagrange and Peter Soros and John Paulson Tony and Paula Peck Alexander Gilkes brave group.) And because having the most expensive, most cherished clothes isn’t quite enough, Huntsman has collaborated with James de Givenchy for cufflinks and with Emma Willis (the darling “top shirt maker in London”) for . . . shirts! In spite of my perfectly nice Ferretti suit (which Hamish Bowles liked—the ultimate endorsement), I felt utterly sartorially dwarfed by these beautifully bespoke gents, but it was a delightful switch. In the elegant mix: John Paulson, Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Paula Peck, Peter Soros and Electra Toub, Alexander Gilkes, George Farias, Eric Ripert (who also oversaw the splendid dinner), Waris Ahluwalia, Nicky (pregnant and glowing) and James Rothschild, Eddie Hayes (wearing another of Gregory Peck’s suits, gifted from Tony—although admittedly, taken up and out), John Richardson, Zack Peck (yes, a grandson: the third generation to be clad in Huntsman) with fiancée Alex Redcliff, Misha Nonoo, Hugo Guinness, Nicolas Niarchos, Billy Misha Nonoo and Waris Diana Widmaier-Picasso and Ahluwalia Hamish Bowles Macklowe, Charles Fagan, Clay Tompkins, Stuart Parr and Robert Couturier. ✦

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CAREFULLY CURATED Spring forward with these timely trends

BEST OF BRITAIN Midtown just got a very welcome new neighbor in the form of Huntsman, a London-based atelier specializing in bespoke clothing with more than a touch of old-world glamour. More than just a clothier to the stars, the brand also takes philanthropy very seriously. At their first celebratory event in New York, each table contained a centerpiece with a ceramic poppy from London's World War I memorial. Huntsman purchased a poppy for each customer who died in the war. It's clear that Huntsman has become part of Britain's cultural fabric, and there's no doubt New York is next. We spoke with Huntsman owner and chairman Pierre Lagrange about the city’s newest arrival and what it means for New York’s most stylish set. What made you want to bring Huntsman stateside? So many of our clients live and work on the East Coast. We can better serve them with a pied-à-terre here, and deliver their bespoke garments in quicker time. How did you go about choosing the location for the first store? The location is equal distance between the Four Seasons and Le Bernardin restaurant—or more seriously, our clients living and working uptown or downtown are all happy to come midtown for appointments. 57th Street is the best street, and we like the feel of the building and its history. We also wanted a private space, to give people privacy and time. Other than quality, what do you think it is that draws so many people to Huntsman? It’s a kind of club, as only a limited number of bespoke suits can be made by our team. It is also exclusive, as what you get is made for you, totally taking your taste into consideration in the making of it. Read Nick Foulkes’ essay on our website—a ready to wear piece has been specified by someone else, and made for someone else. With bespoke, it has been specified by you and made for you. It is no wonder it fits so much better and you look so much better. People describe now how shoppers want a real experience as opposed to a transaction— well, this what Huntsman has been providing for more than 160 years.

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Mr. Manners answers all of your most frustrating fashion questions

Dear Mr. Manners, My wife—bless her couture soul—every so often (make that every so minute) gives me unsolicited commentary on what I am wearing. (“Darling, darling, darling, you must be joking. Not the pastel plaid? You look like Johnny Carson circa 1970.”) Even my red and green Loro Piana sweater gets the loving touch. (“Christmas at Kohl’s, my dear?”) Each jab floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, but I invariably follow “suit” and change. Who needs a round of verbal fisticuffs when halfway out the door? Considering her monthly clothing allowance of $50,000, I figure she must know better. Yet whenever she asks me how she looks just before a dinner party, she takes it so personally that her silicone lips start to undulate. “Hon’, I don’t know if that dress quite shows off your smashing figure” prompts “You think I’m fat?!” and hysterical shrieks, cries and pirouettes in front of her imported three-way mirror. A flurry of Diors and Chanels fly by while she takes umbrage at my “complete lack of sensitivity.” Hey, I’m all for women’s rights (or “suffragettes” as we say at the Racquet Club). But, Jeez, what’s a husband to do? In-The-Closet, Fifth Avenue, New York City

Dear Bedraggled One, As the Good Book says, husband and wife were not created equal when it comes to the primal importance of one’s appearance (see the Harvard Business School anthropological case study titled “The Aesthetics of Self-Identity in Homo Sapiens.” Or, even better, the recent Planet of the Apes film). Enough pontificating. I am sorry to say, my good man, it is far wiser to quash honesty when replying to a rhetorical question from your wife. Love means never having to say you’re ugly. Button up thy Tanqueray-drenched lips. Thy woman is a frail thing. Especially when it comes to her walk-in closet. Hop on the bandwagon. Play along. Or else you’ll soon be ringing Mr. Manners for Eddie Hayes’ private number. And that, sir, will claim an even bigger bite from your billfold than her monthly clothing stipend. As all know, men are infinitely more vain than women.

Dear Mr. Manners, Whatever happened to the custom of people removing their hats indoors? Or am I just some fossil who’s watched one too many black-and-white movies? All these wretched young men wearing a wool beanie or some baseball cap with a brim twice the size of their face (wool hats in summer? Give me a break). I admire a fine hat on the right man or woman, but not when it’s egregiously flaunted in my face. A Mad Hatter, “Cap”- d’Antibes, France

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GARY HOVLAND

Dear Bare-Headed, Hats off to you. How true: Hats indoors are taboo. There has indeed been a hat comeback among men (thank you, Don Draper). The sort of rakish renasence that Mr. Manners applauds: the return of the fedora, porkpie or trilby—the latter a favorite of Lord Grantham. But not everyone has a Carson watching his every move. Of course, His Lordship knows what to do hat-wise when staying at the Reform Club in London. Mr. Manners, great optimist that he is, would like to chalk up the lack of decorum of late to ignorance. Particularly among street-style urchins who crowd the L train each morning with their studiously unkempt facial hair. But, alas, impropriety doesn’t account for being uninformed about Bogie.

Today’s men are obsessed with avoiding “hat hair.” The thought of hair frizz is anathema (picture sticking your damp nose into a light socket). They’re too lazy to tuck away a tin of pomade, a tube of gel or (God forbid!) a baby bottle of hair spray into their WANT Les Essentiels backpack to revive their flying locks. Gentlemen: There is no shame in reframing your mane. Let it be said, here and now, Mr. Manners endorses ladies and their millinery with a caveat: Remove thy hat when at the theatre or cinema. Ascot it is not. You are no fair lady by not shedding your Eliza Doolittle–like hat. A hat should be a welcome addition, not some blockade the size of the Spanish Armada. Audrey Hepburn would know better. And so should you.

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Dear Mr. Manners I am 25-year-old man who would like to know what’s what when it comes to the art of the gift. Specifically, the re-gift. This past Christmas, I gave my mother the penultimate package for under the tree: the enviable orange box. By hauling myself to Hermès, I broke the bank. She seemed overwhelmed by the light gray leather desk diary inside (“You shouldn’t have! J’adore!”). Considering she is hapless with the computer (or anything electronic; she actually pays to watch movies on TV, provided she can operate the universal remote), I thought some paper calendar was pretty rad on my part. About a week ago, she asked me to put something up for sale on eBay. Lo and behold, there was my Hermès diary. My own mom making some nice coin off my Christmas gift. WTF?! Come next Christmas I’ll def hit up the Papyrus sale in February. The Gift-ed One, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

My Dear Lad, The act of re-gifting is a Trojan horse in heat. It is as obnoxious as conversing with someone who speaks while also masticating mouthfuls of a wide cow (or sirloin). That said, it is as rampant these days as not knowing how to hold one’s fork and knife. Beware of fashionistas bearing gifts. Fashion editors and stylists are notorious for pawning off the odd party gift or graft to their girlfriends. They don’t even bother to wrap it. Society (or what’s left of it) ladies who munch at the Colony Club or Doubles readily pawn off the hideous item from a black tie goodie bag from the night before to the housekeeper. They would never deign to re-wrap. Consider yourself in good company. Those who know better often cannot resist the re-gift. One must have the gift of not being nabbed. Do not leave your coat check from the party you attended inside the bag. Do not make the mistake of the poor sap who gave his wife an interior designer’s coffee table tome from a Berfgdorf book party. The bad news: The decorator had inscribed it to him. The good news: There were no allusions to their afternoon tête-àtêtes at the Carlyle (room 414). You did the right thing by not calling out your mum. Mr. Manners knows of many marriages that have fizzled because of the re-gift. Such mischief is always best to avoid. Remember: Re-gifting is a mixed bag. Not unlike, say, infidelity. Who hasn’t thought of it? Or wanted to try their hand at it? At the end of the day, just don’t get caught. ✦

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Broadway and Leonard Street, looking northwest, in 1854. Gurney’s gallery, left, was one of three Daguerrotype studios on the block; Mathew Brady’s was another. A condo will rise on the sites of the two buildings at right, 351 and 353 Broadway.

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COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

19-story, 110-unit condominium is set to rise midblock on Broadway between Leonard and Franklin Streets, replacing three low-rise buildings and continuing the skyward surge of development on TriBeCa’s eastern edge. To assemble the parcels and development rights for the planned condo at 351-357 Broadway, Toll Brothers City Living paid separate owners a total of $94 million. The final property purchased by the developers in that block’s high-stakes Monopoly game was 351 Broadway, a humble four-story brick structure that housed the New Fancy Food deli. Due to its strategic location, that site had become a hot commodity, changing hands three times from 2012 to 2015 as its price soared from $862,000 to $13 million to $21 million. The scale of the planned 193,000-squarefoot condo was made possible by the purchase, for $8 million, of the air rights from 359 Broadway, a landmarked five-story Italianate building next door, where the famed Civil War and portrait photographer Mathew Brady kept a studio from 1853 to 1859. The surviving Brady building is a vivid reminder of a time when the character of l ower Broadway was less vertical than horizontal, the rushing river of commerce and fashion threatening to overflow the banks of the great avenue during shopping hours. “See what an amount of moving matter,” observed South Carolinian visitor William M. Bobo in 1852, looking up and down Broadway from the verandah of Barnum’s Museum below City Hall Park. “The throng upon the sidewalks—see what a continual press . . . . This is the hour for the fashionables to show themselves upon the street; it is a regular business to promenade Broadway at this time of day.” Downtown Broadway was the city’s premiere shopping and hotel district in the mid-19th century, anchored by A.T. Stewart’s Italian Renaissance-style “marble palace,” a lavish department store constructed in 1846 at Chambers Street and expanded over the years. (Today known as the Sun Building, it is home to less glamorous tenants like Modell’s and the city Department of Buildings.) “So many smartly dressed women strolled along the sidewalks or hurried from one shop to another,” according to architectural historian Charles Lockwood, “that from a distance both sides of the street appeared to be ‘one sheet of bright, quivering colors.’”

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Mathew Brady’s portrait gallery, regularly thronged with clients and gawkers, was described by a photography journal as “the very Rialto of fashion and elegance.” Above left: An 1850’s engraving showing the lavish reception area of Mathew Brady’s gallery. Above right: Window display of PS Fabrics at 359 Broadway. The storefront was occupied in the 1850’s by Thompson’s Saloon, with Brady’s gallery upstairs.

Shopping and promenading could be thirsty work, prompting many to stop for a break at Thompson’s, a “lady’s saloon” on the ground floor of 359 Broadway that Henry James and his brother, William, frequented as children. If Broadway, as James recalled in a memoir, was “the feature and the artery, the joy and the adventure of one’s childhood,” then Thompson’s was “a house of delight,” where the brothers, after enduring a painful session at the dentist, would dig into dishes of ice cream, “deemed sovereign for sore mouths.” Suitably refreshed, visitors often headed upstairs to Brady’s Daguerrotype gallery to partake of another popular diversion of the age: sitting for a photographic portrait. In 1853, the year after the stone-fronted commercial building at 359 Broadway was completed, the New York Tribune tallied a hundred daguerrean studios in New York and Brooklyn. While working-class Manhattan galleries tended to be situated on the Bowery, the more prestigious establishments preferred Broadway, and by 1854, Brady’s studio was one of three daguerrean galleries within the single block between Leonard and Franklin on the “dollar side” of Broadway (as the west side of the 48 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • MARCH 2016

street was known, distinguishing it from the generally less desirable “shilling side”). The block was bookended by two of Brady’s daguerrean rivals: Jeremiah Gurney, on the corner of Leonard Street, and Marcus Aurelius Root, on the corner of Franklin. Other neighbors on the block that decade were Wiley & Halsted, a book concern, at No. 351; Williams & Stevens, purveyors of looking glasses and picture frames, at No. 353; James Beck & Co., a dry goods dealer, at No. 355; and William H. Geib & Co., a piano shop, at No. 361. Visitors to Brady’s gallery entered through a street-level door and were immediately presented with a handsome assortment of his portraits arranged in rosewood-and-gilt display cases. Two flights up, one entered a sumptuous reception area, its ceilings frescoed, its walls decorated with gold paper and satin, its floors carpeted with velvet tapestry. “In the center is suspended a six-light gilt and enameled chandelier,” observed Humphrey’s Journal in 1853, “with prismatic drops that throw their enlivening colors in the most costly needle worked lace curtains,

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Among the New Yorkers photographed while the golden cornices, and festooned at Brady’s were Henry James and his damask indicate that Art dictated their namesake father. The experience made arrangement.” Lest any wavering the boy self-conscious about his brasscustomers doubt Brady’s prominence in buttoned jacket, a garment of “scant the field of portraiture, the walls were grace,” while the metal apparatus hung with Daguerrotypes—unique employed to keep his head still was so images on silvered copper plates— uncomfortable that he described it archly of presidents, generals, monarchs, and as “Mr. Brady’s vise.” noblemen. Today, the room where James sat The gallery, regularly thronged with for his portrait is occupied by the clients and gawkers, was described by a Original JACHS Manufacturing Compaphotography journal as “the very Rialto of ny, a menswear firm. On the ground floor, fashion and elegance,” according to Brady a shop called PS Fabrics has crammed the authority Mary Panzer. “The eminent old Thompson’s Saloon space from floor men who visit New York,” the journal to ceiling with a phantasmagoria of colorexplained, “are taken at once to Brady’s Above: No. 359 Broadway, center, the landmarked Italianate building that once housed Mathew Brady’s ful textiles and trimmings. But apparent rooms that they may not only see all gallery. A 19-story condo is set to rise next door. remnants of the saloon survive both our great men grouped together there, overhead (denticulated crown moldings) but that they may see themselves as others and underfoot (burnt-umber and yellow floor tiles). see them.” Outside, the bricks of the downtown-facing side wall of the building, Behind the reception room was the business oﬃce, an elaborately decorated ladies parlor, and two rooms where customers sat for which will soon be hidden by the new condo, were painted until their portraits, according to Robert Wilson, author of Mathew Brady: 1988 with the words “359/Brady’s/Gallery.” In the 28 years since, the Portraits of a Nation. On the two floors above, the plates were whitewash that covered the words has faded just enough to reward a developed and mounted. Customers generally walked back out to squinting, street-corner nostalgist with the faintest, tantalizing glimpse of part of the Brady sign—a ghostly letter S at the level of the top floor. ✦ Broadway, portrait in hand, within an hour of their sitting.

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HAD A TALENT FOR DRAWING WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, BUT I . . . HAVE LET MY LOVE OF MAKING IMAGES FALL TO THE WAYSIDE. YET IN A WAY, I STILL MAKE A SELF PORTRAIT EVERY DAY,” says Amy Fine Collins. This dreary winter afternoon is no exception to her rule of sartorial inventiveness. She arrives at our meeting in the Carlyle Hotel gallery—a replica of a Turkish sultan’s dining room with deep ruby-red wallpaper adorned with scenes from a desert oasis—in a three-quarter length, cinched-waist caramel colored shearling with orientalist embroidery at the cuffs by Dennis Basso. She peels off the exotic coat to reveal one of her signature day dresses: a spare, long-sleeved black crepe Ralph Rucci number with two sinuous inlaid ribbons of brown silk running from her collarbone down to the skirt’s hem on either side, subtly delineating her taut, five foot ten frame. While the ladies around us sport variations of urban après ski/gruesome weather wear and unkempt mops of hat hair, the only indication that Amy has had to navigate freezing temperatures, five-foot-high snow banks and curbside moats of gray slush is a dainty pair of waterproof suede ankle boots. “I should have worn Manolos,” she murmurs apologetically. Every detail of her ensemble, down to her leopard print Lanvin handbag, achieves the harmony of contrasts that evokes her very character: classic yet modern, ladylike yet sexy, rigorously geometric and western yet exotic, mysterious and remote yet warm and accessible. In a world besotted with “athleisure-wear,” dressing down and celebrities with stylists but little personal style, the Vanity Fair special correspondent, author, mother, wife, social and fashion doyenne Collins is the ultimate 21st-century avatar of a much lamented cultural force.

“I HAD TO ACCEPT I WAS DIFFERENT FROM MOST OF THE GIRLS I KNEW AND THEN LEARN TO PLAY UP THOSE DIFFERENCES. I EXPOSED MY OUTSIZED EARS, LEFT THE BUMP ON MY NOSE ALONE AND MADE NO APOLOGIES FOR MY HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND ETHNICITY.” —AMY FINE COLLINS “She is this kind of invention—she made this look up and it burned itself into our psyche from the moment it appeared and it will never leave—it’s indelible,” says her friend of more than 25 years, legendary designer Isaac Mizrahi. Comparing her to early-20th-century heiresses and cultural pioneers Nancy Cunard and Peggy Guggenheim, he predicts that Amy’s impact on fashion will take its place in the history books. His admiration extends beyond her chicness: “There are layers and layers and layers and they’re surprising. It’s surprising how un-dumb she is…You throw something at her and she always catches the ball.” To those who know her family, however, Amy’s complexity and depth of thought come as no shock. One of two daughters of psychoanalyst Harold Fine and his wife, Elsa Honig Fine, an art historian and professor, the Fairfield, Connecticut–born Amy spent her formative years in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her mother taught at the historically black Knoxville College and wrote the first definitive textbook on African-American art in 1974, a revolutionary undertaking at the time. The nonpracticing Jewish family was quite out of place in this Southern city with its gentile majority and tiny Jewish community who all worshipped at one of two synagogues. Elsa insisted her daughters attend the local public school so that they would be exposed to “every kind of person.” Amy’s ability to interact with everyone from the former prostitutes she profiled in an award-winning article on sex trafficking to budding designers trying to break in, to the titans and socialites of New York and Paris, can be traced back to this experience.

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hile the school offered an academically rigorous program complete with the entire Shakespeare canon, Amy and her sister, Erika (a Harvard Law School graduate who now owns an antique shop,) were outsiders. They were taunted for their ethnic origin and their “hippie” clothing and barred from joining the school’s social clubs. Amy found refuge in the school’s “multicultural club,” which had a membership of three: an African-American girl (Malaika Adero, who would go on to become a noted book editor in New York), a Greek Orthodox boy and Amy. The ostracism helped Amy, whose first fashion icon was her own sleekly elegant mother, develop her own sense of style. “All of them could have been models,” she says of her classmates, “but I knew I didn’t look like them . . . I had to accept I was different from most of the girls I knew and then learn to play up those differences. I exposed my outsized ears, left the bump on my nose alone and made no apologies for my height, weight and ethnicity.” In her one attempt to “fit in,” she defensively developed a Southern accent, which she dropped at the urgings of her Swarthmore College boyfriend, a Southerner who said he’d come north to escape the “belles.” (She can still summon the accent on demand, to the great amusement of her many friends.)

“IT’S SIGNIFICANT THAT SHE’S A SERIOUS ART HISTORIAN, AND IT’S WONDERFUL THAT SHE’S BEEN ABLE TO BRING THAT LEVEL OF ERUDITION AND RESEARCH TO FASHION AND STYLE HISTORY.” —HAMISH BOWLES After college, she enrolled at Columbia Business School in a slight act of rebellion against her parents, feeling she “had to learn something practical” and planning to pursue a career in arts administration. The experiment did not last long. Calculus and accounting drove Amy screaming back to the art history department where she belonged. It was while doing an internship at the Whitney Museum that she met Bradley Collins Jr., the quietly elegant scion of an old New York family whose great-uncle, Samuel Isham, wrote the first history of American art, in an uncanny parallel to Amy’s mother’s own pioneering scholarship. Amy and Bradley married in 1986 and moved to the Upper East Side, where they have lived ever since. Bradley is a professor of art history at Parsons. Amy made the transition from academia to journalism by writing articles, first for scholarly art journals like the one founded by her mother, Women’s Art Journal, then for more mainstream publications, like the Village Voice’s now defunct style supplement, V. Her article on a retrospective exhibit of designer Geoffrey Beene titled “The Wearable Lightness of Beene” caught the designer’s attention. “I hadn’t interviewed him for the article,” she confesses, “because I was approaching his work as an art historian. He wrote me a note asking ‘How do you know me better than I know myself? Can we have lunch?’ ” That lunch turned into a lifelong friendship and collaboration; she became his muse and joined his circle, which included Robert Rufino and Alber Elbaz. She credits Beene with helping her truly refine her style. “My look before Beene was kind of a first draft,” she explains, “He made me realize I could push things a bit further, be more severe, more graphic.” She appreciated his avant-garde mix of high and low, using rubber tubing in belts for example, not to mention his “visual puns” and Peter Pan collars, and credits him with being the first to “have a center panel shaped like a woman’s torso so the woman’s body shape was slimmed and referenced.” Many of his design elements have become mainstream, and all of the principles he instilled, including primness wed to sensuality, remain the underpinnings of Amy’s carefully curated wardrobe.

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impossible to write about in an academic setting; fashion was considered unworthy of scholarly attention.” Amy’s award-winning articles, along with her two decades’ worth of volunteer work at the Met Museum’s Costume Institute, have contributed greatly to changing that perception. As her friend of many years, Hamish Bowles, Vogue’s international editor at large, puts it, “It’s significant that she’s a serious art historian, and it’s wonderful that she’s been able to bring that level of erudition and research to fashion and style history. There have been very serious costume historians, far less so in the sphere of 20th-century fashion and style. To have that elevated insight and perspective has helped to transform how we all think about those areas and experience them and expanded our knowledge.” Since 1993, she has been a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, where she brings the rigor and the highly trained eye of an art historian to all of her subjects, be they decorators, legendary journalists, designers or celebrities. She has also long been a member of the select group that elects the members of the International Best Dressed List. In 2002, just before she died, Eleanor Lambert, the list’s founder, wrote a letter bequeathing the list to four friends, including Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair’s editor in chief; Reinaldo Herrera, a VF contributing editor and husband of designer Carolina, Aimée Bell, VF deputy editor; and Amy. Since the list moved to Vanity Fair, Amy has become its face.

“I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE ANYONE ELSE . . . AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHO AMY IS TOO.”

—THOM BROWNE

She remains a sought after “model and muse” for established designers like Carolina Herrera and Azzedine Alaïa, as well as newer fashion stars like Zac Posen and Thom Browne. She loves to wear clothes by designers she knows; all of them revere her connoisseurship. “She appreciates the craft and art of making clothes…and not just clothes to wear, but conceptual ideas that make fashion interesting. She will always be very special to me because of her appreciation of how I approach my way of making clothes and how I don’t want to be like anyone else...and this is exactly who Amy is too,” Browne says in an email. Amy continues to nurture a cadre of up-and-coming young creators. Her insistence on her own uniqueness has helped designers follow their stars. “She’s a benefactor and muse all in one,” gushes Stacey Bendet, founder of the charmingly retro and highly successful Alice + Olivia line. Bendet met Amy a dozen years ago when she was just starting. The two are now like sisters, and Amy, who has worn Stacey’s creations to the Costume Institute Ball, is godmother to Stacey’s daughter Scarlet. “She has such a true understanding of the garment,” Bendet says. “It’s the ultimate compliment when she says she likes something. She’s inspired so many pieces that I’ve done. She is in a constant state of glamour. She looks like a regal queen on a paddleboard in Fisher Island,” she continues, revealing one of Amy’s secret hobbies: paddleboard yoga. During our Carlyle confab, Amy pulls out her iPhone to show a picture of herself doing a headstand on a floating board. “I have a secret life as an acrobat,” she says with a laugh.

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eyond her glamorous career and social life, Amy’s greatest passion is her twentytwo-year old daughter, Flora, a Chapin graduate who is now a senior majoring in English at Vassar. When asked how she managed to raise such a sane, unspoiled child in the midst of great privilege, Amy explains, “I tried to maintain a sense of order and predictability in the way she grew up, and to laugh with her as much as possible. I suppose she saw beautiful things like clothes as the creative expression of the designer friends around me, not as consumer goods.” Flora’s response is more succinct: “Books.” It was a book titled Candy, by Kevin Brooks (published by Scholastic), that first piqued the then 11-year-old Flora’s interest in the topic of child trafficking. She insisted she and her mother attend a lecture about modern-day slavery at their local library on Fisher Island. “There were only four of us: me, Flora, another lady and Polly Mellen.” But Amy’s obsession with the issue of domestic sex trafficking was born, inspired by her gifted and inquisitive daughter. The result was “Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door,” which, with more than a million hits, was the most read article in vanityfair.com’s history at the time. It helped change laws and is one of Amy’s proudest contributions to the field of journalism. Her days begin late. “I’m on California time on the East Coast,” she says wryly. She exercises religiously, following a demanding regimen of Pilates and yoga, plus swimming in the summer.

“SHE’S A BENEFACTOR AND MUSE ALL IN ONE.” —STACEY BENDET She writes every single day in the burgundy study/closet of her elegant and whimsical Park Avenue apartment. On her bureau plat, which is flanked by two built-in chiffoniers, with drawer upon drawer of her jewelry and accessories, sits a card—hand drawn by a very young Flora—that reads in a childish scrawl: “You are the beest Moma in the wole world.” On certain days, she will interrupt her writing schedule to meet a friend for lunch at Michael’s, the media elite’s canteen, or La Grenouille, the throwback to an earlier era of glamour. Every year, she looks forward to the American Ballet Theater galas (this fall she astonished in a double-faced satin mermaid gown by Zac Posen,) and of course, the Met Costume Institute Ball. The museum has been a long-standing philanthropic commitment for her because, as she states, “It builds community.” She also chairs the annual POSH clothing sale and gala for the Lighthouse Guild, to which she was introduced to by her close friend Somers Farkas, and it raises more than a million dollars a year for the organization, which provides healthcare services to people who are blind or visually impaired. With a daughter graduating from college, she admits she’s ready for her third act. Her book, The God of Driving (published by Simon & Schuster), a memoir of her fear of driving and her unlikely friendship with the instructor, a Turkish immigrant and the “God” of the title who helped her overcome it, has been optioned by a film company. She’d like to bring the International Best Dressed List to a broader platform. For his part, Hamish Bowles would like to see her curate a show of her own stellar wardrobe: “I think it would be interesting to see her many interests brought to life in a museum context.” Whatever form her next incarnation takes, it is certain to be as show-stopping, meticulously researched, “soignée” and unapologetically unique as the lady herself. As designer Thom Browne put it, “There is no one like Amy Fine Collins.” ✦

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DRESSING WELL

Ala Isham remembers her heritage as she moves towards the future

“I

by Daisy

Prince

’m having so much fun this should be illegal,” laughs Ala Isham, speaking about the new line of resort wear she’s created. “Some people have asked me, why are you doing this now? But what am I supposed to do now that my kids are grown-up? Stare at a wall?” Seated in the library at NoMad for what has turned out to be very early afternoon drinks, Isham is tall, blond and statuesque, with blue eyes so piercing they could give the fabled Mitford sisters a run for their money. Perusing the extensive list of cocktails, Ala begs off anything alcoholic and chooses a cappuccino instead. I decide that one of us has to have a real drink and chose something tropical and fruity. When the rum cocktail arrives I’m not disappointed, it’s about as tall as the table and has more cornucopia on it than a baroque Italian church. I take a tentative (and delicious) first sip and realize that I’m going to need to pace myself in order to concentrate on what Isham is saying. She starts by telling me how she got into fashion organically. Having studied art history at Barnard (in between nights out on the town at Studio 54. Steve Rubell even gave her a 21st birthday party, a rare honor which she acknowledges she did not appreciate at the time.), she took lessons from artist Ophrah Shemesh, a well-known teacher at the New York Studio School. She had been making clothes with a designer friend of hers, Antonio Gual, for years. He saw her drawings and thought they could be transferred onto the kaftans Isham was fond of wearing at home. As someone who moves around between Antigua, Newport, New York and Southampton, she wanted clothes that would transfer between those environments and, most important, be comfortable and chic. She started to think about how her mother and grandmother wore their clothes to dinners in Marrakech in the 1960s and ’70s, where Isham’s aunt, Hetti Von Bohlen, would have fabulous dinner parties attended by everyone from the Gettys to Yves Saint Laurent and the Rolling Stones. More often than not, the ladies wore kaftans, and Isham loves their ease. “You can be dressed comfortably, but you can also look elegant.” She cites the photographs that Norman Parkinson took for Town & Country of kaftan-draped models luxuriating in Venetian gondolas, and iconic images of Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor. “These were incredibly sexy women, but the clothes they wore weren’t so tight.” As a constant traveler, she appreciates clothes that pack well: “Because we don’t have tall suitcases anymore and we don’t want to travel like that, I think of clothes having to perform several functions. You wear one casually, make

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Left: Isham at her collection launch (with models in her designs) in January 2016 Middle: Large Lily Kaftan print sketch Below: Short Purple Orchid Kaftan

it fancier if you go out, then add another layer to make it even dressier. I like the idea that you don’t have to take much but you can look good.” Isham sees fashion as an extension of the art she was studying. “One piece emphasizes the body and then the other one is fairly loose on top so that when the woman moves, the pieces draw together. In the end, I saw this as my art installation. The woman buying is the art of my own inspiration.” Isham would love to see Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie and Julianne Moore in her designs: “Anyone who wants to feel beautiful and confident.”

aughter of Prince Alfred Auersperg of Salzburg and Martha “Sunny” Crawford von Bülow, Isham grew up between Austria and Newport. The tragedy that blighted much of her early adult life—her mother’s death in 2008 after being in a coma for more than 20 years, and the trial of her stepfather, Claus von Bülow, who was twice put on trial and acquitted of attempted murder—seems firmly in the past. By launching this line, it becomes clear that Isham is finally able to remember her mother in the way she’s always wanted to, as a elegantly dressed woman found in the company of interesting and entertaining people. Growing up around so much beauty undoubtedly helped Isham’s sense of style as well as instructing her on the elusive art of relaxation. 80 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • MARCH 2016

“Part of it is the need to return to a sense of elegance. We are all in such a rush and don’t really take time to sit down and have a nice meal or really nourish all those personal moments with friends in the way we used to.” For all of her low-key demeanor, Isham was exposed to a rare and disappearing world from an early age. She remembers safari trips to Africa with her father, a professional hunter, where she would sit cross-legged by the fire, listening to the stories told by real-life Denys Finch-Hattons of their great game hunts in the 1950s and ’60s. Men who, despite contracting vicious tropical diseases, would return to Africa year after year. Summers, when not in Newport, were spent in enormous European houses with families who now struggle to keep their estates up and running. All of these experiences shaped Isham’s eye, but it was the glamorous women in her family who remain in her mind when she’s designing. Isham’s sense of hospitality and living well comes from her upbringing. Her grandfather George W. Crawford was the founder and chairman of the Columbia Gas and Electric Company, and her great-grandfather Robert Warmack was a founder and chairman of the International Shoe Company. Her Southern grandmother, Annie Laurie Aitken, used to travel to Paris for months at a time and would even move her furniture into her suite at Le Meurice. “She believed in making people comfortable and having them feel at home.” Her Southern charm and sensibility percolated down to Isham. “I think your eye is formed at a young age, so I was just lucky to be surrounded by beautiful things. You might look at a piece of furniture and not know who the maker is, but you will understand that it’s beautiful. You develop visually that way.”

Above left: Purple Orchid Kaftan print sketch Above right Isham relaxing with her family Left: Long Pruple Orchid Kaftan

“I’M HAVING SO MUCH FUN THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.” —ALA ISHAM Her ancestors are unquestionably illustrious, but in keeping with modern times, Isham has moved away from using cooks and butlers because she prefers a simpler existence with her husband of 27 years, Ralph Isham. Together with their four children (two from her previous marriage, one from his and one together) they are a downto-earth blended family very much in keeping with the 21st century.

n the midst of her newfound fun, Isham is also giving back part of the proceeds to a charitable cause she believes in wholeheartedly. Years ago, Isham and her brother, Alexander, founded the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) and Isham feels strongly about giving back to people without a voice. Part of the proceeds from sales will go to fight crimes against women particularly victims of sexual assault on college campuses. This charitable aspect of her work is all part of a holistic approach that Isham is taking to her brand. She’s given a lot of thought to the

way the website will work. Isham is developing a travelogue to address not only who will wear her clothes but where her customers will wear them. “I wear my clothes on vacation. I thought it would be fun to have a little section on different islands. Where do you go? What are the insider tips? Where do you rent a house?” She will include an inspiration board and collaborate with jewelers like London-based Annie Summers, whose line of individual pieces works well with Isham’s line. The younger generation is interested too and gives her a lot of advice, and her daughter Sunny has been a huge help with social media. As for placement, Isham will sell strictly online at first and then hopefully in all the top resort shops. As our time is nearing an end (and my drink woefully done) I want to know if the experience of talking about her family and even dealing with the press has been cathartic for her. She turns to me as we walk out of the hotel and simply says, “You know, it’s just been really nice to remember my mom this way, in all her beauty and elegance.” ✦ MARCH 2016 • AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH | 81

MI AM I R O U ND TA BL E

Developing Story

Our panel of experts talk on the topic of South Florida Real Estate moderated by Len

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AVENUE: There’s been a lot of talk about

to be where they want to live or vacation. So

DEV MOTWANI: You have to look beyond the

South Florida’s condominium market slowing

it’s not just a matter of quality and what you

total number of projects and consider the num-

down while overall housing prices and sales are continuing to rise. What do you think is

deliver, but also who you’re designing the building for, and where.

ber of units per project. In the last cycle, there were a lot of beachfront developments being

happening here, and what are you doing to

built here in Broward with 250 to 300 units.

sustain or jump-start your sales? HARVEY HERNANDEZ: I think for us here

AVENUE: How about you, Jimmy? You’ve

In our current cycle you’ve got a lot of smaller projects that are 12, 18, 20 units. So the total

been doing this for a long time as well.

number of units is much less. But the reason

in South Florida it may be different than in

there are so many projects overall is that South

other areas. Our real estate recovery started way sooner than the rest of the country,

JIMMY COHEN: Fort Lauderdale Beach will be the new international luxury beach

Florida is a destination where people want to live, vacation and retire. It’s not just limited to

so our market is a little bit more mature,

destination that will give buyers an alterna-

snowbirds or Canadians or Latin Americans

and I think it’s probably taking a bit of a breather in some areas. We’re sticking

tive location that offers substantial value compared to Miami. Our sales approach

anymore. We are seeing a lot of buyers from Europe and Asia too, as well as many more

with a strategy that has proved successful

remains more traditional than most develop-

domestic markets, because South Florida

for us: finding niches within the market and positioning our product in a way that clearly

ers. We are more focused on going directly to our existing Four Season clientele for

appeals to a larger base of buyers these days. In our Fort Lauderdale project, we’ve got

sets us apart from the competition.

the opening offering of the development.

buyers representing 15 to 20 different coun-

CARLOS ROSSO: We’ve seen a softening

Additionally, we’ve connected to our contacts globally to introduce them to our anticipated

tries. With our growing population, 10 years from now we’ll still be trying to catch up with

of sales primarily due to the increase of the

launch in Fort Lauderdale Beach.

demand. The problem here is that we tend to

dollar; however, we’ve seen this situation in the past and are confident that buyers

AVENUE: It was recently reported that in

build everything all at once so there can be spikes in supply, but over the long run I still

will adjust. The city’s condo market is a

2015 a total of more than 316 new condo

think demand outweighs the current supply.

marathon—and with the improvements in Miami’s cultural offerings, infrastructure

buildings were an nounced for the tricounty area east of I-95. If even half of these

ROSSO: A combination of higher numbers

and overall pedigree, we are confident South

projects come to fruition, it would be a lot for

of domestic buyers and the increased

Florida will remain among the world’s most desirable destinations.

the South Florida market. Harvey, how many of these do you think will actually get built?

development costs of Miami-Dade projects have positioned Broward and Palm Beach

AVENUE: What about you, Bradley? As the fourth generation in your family’s

HERNANDEZ: That number is very deceiving. Just because somebody tries to get a project approved doesn’t mean they’re going to go

front properties starting as low as $600 per square foot, the area offers an unbeatable value as well as relative proximity to Miami’s

development business you’ve seen plenty of ups and downs over the last 20 or 30 years. How do you see the market today?

to market right away. Some of these won’t ever get built—not now, at least. For those that do— 20 to 30 percent, maybe—it could take a while.

urban core. We knew it was only a matter of time before this northern market took off and so have been preparing a number of projects

It all depends on buyer demand and presales.

like the W Fort Lauderdale and Auberge Fort Lauderdale, in order to have them ready for potential buyers seeking lifestyle options that were historically only available in Miami.

Counties as the markets to be in. With water-

BRADLEY DECKELBAUM: I think it’s a market in transition. One thing that’s happened with this current cycle is the increase in preconstruction deposits. As a result, buyers are more discerning than ever. And with all the options in the marketplace, just being new isn’t enough anymore—it has

AVENUE: It seems that every couple of weeks there’s another project being announced in Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and further north. Dev, you’ve been building in Broward a long time—what’s your take on this?

AVENUE: Bradley, you’re building a luxury condominium project on the Middle River in

Participants JIMMY COHEN, Vice President of Sales, Fort Partners

BRADLEY DECKELBAUM, Managing Partner, Premier Developers

HARVEY HERNANDEZ, President and CEO, Newgard Development Group

CARLOS ROSSO, President, Condominium Development Division, The Related Group

DEV MOTWANI, President, Merrimac Ventures

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M I A M I R O U ND TA BL E Fort Lauderdale. Do you find your buyers are

AVENUE: There’s been a real increase in

migrating north from Miami?

the cost of land, labor and raw materials, and that’s been putting upward pressure on

DECKELBAUM: Actually, more from the

condo prices. Where do you see prices going

western suburbs of Broward. Fort Lauderdale has been underserved residentially for a long

in 2016?

time. Now it’s a very different city than the

DECKELBAUM: I think it’ll be a little while

one Dev and I grew up in. It’s a full life cycle city, meaning that people are moving there at

longer before we see costs start to stabilize and come back down. In the high-rise world

every point in their lives and staying there.

especially, there’s a high demand for—and

A lot of our early buyers at Riva were from western Broward and jumped at the first

a real shortage of—companies and laborers and supervisors who know how to build

chance to own a condo like this further east.

a quality product. I think materials prices

Jimmy Cohen

are stabilizing, but it varies from location to location and product to product. Len Dugow

AVENUE: Let’s talk about buyer deposits. The 50 percent deposit quite common in South America is what helped jump-start our

“Fort Lauderdale Beach used to be known as the spring break capital of the world. Now it’s being elevated . . .” —Jimmy Cohen Dev Motwani

or so make a difference to the buyers you’re going after?

AVENUE: Jimmy, in the last cycle, a Four Seasons might not have seemed such a good fit on Fort Lauderdale Beach. But now we’ve got the Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton, the W and other luxury brands building there. What’s different now? COHEN: Fort Lauderdale Beach used to be known as the spring break capital of the world. Now it’s being elevated into a luxury destination with the arrival of five-star luxury hotel residences like the Four Seasons. We are seeing buyers migrating from Miami and the surrounding areas. Locals who bought large homes 10 to 15 years ago, whose kids are now moving out, and who are now ready to downsize to an easier condo lifestyle with quality services and amenities. Additionally, the international buyers are now recognizing Fort Lauderdale as they see the wave of new development starting to happen.

deposits of 30 to 35 percent, while in Miami you’ve got deposits of 50 percent or more in some cases. Does that extra 15 percent

COHEN: You’re starting to see some developers market the fact that they require a lessor deposit. We are sticking with a staged deposit to equal 50 percent by the time our building is topped off. With the clientele that we are selling, it’s not making a difference– either they can do it or they can’t. We haven’t had any pushback as long as they know who the developer is and the quality of the developer, and where their money is going, they are fine with it.

current cycle here in South Florida. At first everyone was skeptical, but now it seems to be common practice. In Broward, we’re seeing

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AVENUE: It seems your sales efforts would be easier—particularly with local buyers—if banks relaxed their mortgage lending requirements somewhat. What do you think it will take for banks to make it easier for these folks to get a mortgage?

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MI AM I R O U ND TA BL E MOTWANI: I don’t think buyers are having trouble getting financing. I think it’s really more about if they have the capital to put

Bradley Deckelbaum

down a 50 percent deposit for these types of projects. And I don’t know that we want that to change. If we go back to the way it was, where any buyer could reserve a unit by putting down 5 percent and tie up units, which was what you heard during the last cycle, that doesn’t lead to a healthy market. We’re seeing a lot of local and foreign buyers who have the capital; the question is, do they want to tie up

“Buyers are more discerning than ever.” —Bradley Deckelbaum

that capital to reserve a unit in a building they can’t move in to for a couple of years? we don’t rest on our laurels. We are always looking for the best in design, amenities AVENUE: Even an upper-middle-class income family with a decent credit score is going to have trouble coming up with a

and location in order to attract this new generation of well-educated and connected buyers, which in turn leads to a superior

50 percent deposit—finally, that’s a lot of cash on a $1 or $2 million purchase. What about lowering the deposit requirements?

product. willing and able to write a big equity check.

MOTWANI: As developers, we don’t want

ROSSO: Preconstruction projects require a bigger financial commitment up front. Buyers

So when you have to sell 70 percent of your product for 50 percent or you’re not getting a construction loan, that becomes a problem.

to have to compete with poorly conceived projects. We should be held accountable for delivering a unique product and amenities

who want a less demanding deposit structure are able to go to the resale market. They can buy something that’s already completed with

We need to be able to create programs for buyers—real buyers who want to live here—that offer them a payment plan for their

that people actually want, so that they’ll actually close and live there. If you’ve got a good product, you want a healthy buyer who’s

a lesser deposit requirement, even if they pay a higher premium in the end.

deposit but also provide restitution so that if something negative happens we still have access to that loan.

asking the right questions.

HERNANDEZ: Our issue has to do with the construction lenders who because of their requirements don’t allow us to accept deposits of less than 40 or 50 percent—unless we’re Harvey Hernandez

AVENUE: Good way to end it. Thank you, gentlemen. ✦ AVENUE: Let me wrap things up with one last question. Do you believe that, as the saying goes, “An educated consumer is your best customer”? Does it compel you as developers to provide a better product? ROSSO: Of course! I agree 100 percent. The more stringent deposit requirements and the large number of choices have created much more discerning buyers. While our firm’s long-standing reputation for dependability inspires buyer confidence,

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CPW. Exceptional Candela PH duplex; spectacular terrace over Central Park. 8.5 rooms plus separate office/guest apartment. Incredible detail, pristine perfect condition. $19.8M. WEB# 14157596. Kathryn Steinberg 212-396-5868

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Lincoln Center. A true TH in the sky. River views out of huge windows from this nearly 6,800SF, 7BR, 7.5 bath home w/ 1,700SF terrace. F/S Condo w/ best amenities: basketball, golf, pool, etc. $14.9M. WEB# 13853134. Lisa K. Lippman 212-588-5606 Gerard S. Moore 212-588-5608

Sutton Place. Rosario Candela beauty lovingly renovated for 2016. 12 rooms, 4BR, 6.5 baths, East River from every room, chef’s EIK, WBFPs, high ceilings, 4 exposures. Great value. $12M. WEB# 14158952. Nancy J. Elias 212-906-9275

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Rising on the Upper East Side:

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or decades, the neighborhood spanning Central Park and the East River, from East 59th to 96th Streets, has captivated Manhattan’s most affluent people. And it’s easy to see why: like London’s Mayfair, or Paris’ St Germaine, the

culture, landmarks, prominent private clubs, museums, galleries, schools, shopping and restaurants are the best the city has to offer. Since the turn of the century, the magnificent limestone mansions, handsome brownstone townhouses and luxury apartment buildings of the Upper East Side have made it the most desirable residential location in New York. The coveted area, which has often been referred to as the “Silk Stocking District”, “Millionaire’s Row” and “Museum Mile,” is thriving now more than ever. In fact, 10065 has recently been ranked #1 on Forbes’ list of priciest zip codes. One building in particular, soon to rise above this splendid enclave, will be 520 Park Avenue, a sophisticated tower clad in Indiana limestone that connects to the iconic fabric of the Upper East Side,

520 Park Avenue, the only new development on the Upper East Side west of Park Avenue, is poised to become the most exclusive building in the neighborhood.

including the grand towers of the 1920s and ‘30s such as the Pierre, Sherry-Netherland, and the Carlyle. The fully residential tower—currently being built and slated for completion in 2018—will create a momentous silhouette that pays homage to the landmark architecture of decades past, but with modern amenities and thoughtful layouts for today’s Upper East Side lifestyle. The splendor of Park Avenue in Bloom.

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Developed by Zeckendorf Development, with partners Park Sixty LLC and Global Holdings, and designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the 54-story, 800-foot tower with just 33 residences is destined to become

one of the city’s most important residential addresses—a building so distinctive that it will only be attainable by a fortunate few. Sitting at the foot of the Upper East Side Historic District, residences are blessed with spectacular views of Central Park, the city skyline and the neighborhood’s classically charming architecture. The continuing collaboration at 520 Park Avenue between Zeckendorf Development and Robert A.M. Stern Architects now brings the resounding success of 15 Central Park West to the Upper East Side. “This is something that my brother Will and I have been working on for a dozen years,” said Arthur Zeckendorf, co-chairman of Zeckendorf Development. “520 Park Avenue will provide residents with truly unrivalled luxury in the best neighborhood in New York.” Destined to become a new classic, the soaring tower cuts a striking profile on the Upper East Side. Its full floor simplex residences start 150 feet above street level—roughly the typical height of a Park Avenue penthouse. The luxurious duplex penthouses with Central Park facing balconies are mansions in the sky. And the stunning triplex penthouse is unlike anything else on the market and certainly worthy of its $130 million price. Located on 60th street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue, 520 Park Avenue sits at the nexus of the Upper East Side’s cultural heartbeat, surrounded by Michelin starred restaurants, the luxury boutiques and art galleries of Madison Avenue, and the city’s historic exclusive private clubs. For the city’s most fashionable denizens, living here is not a coincidence; this neighborhood speaks to the essence of who they are and how they live. Indeed, the Upper East Side is not an address, but way of life, a neighborhood that evokes privacy, prestige and success like any other. 520 Park Avenue is designed with a private club atmosphere in mind and will be complete with a lavish suite of amenities. The building uniquely has a private club of its own, inspired by the elegant Annabel’s in London. Step through the mansion-inspired entrance into the lobby and you’ll be transported to a restful haven in the midst of the city. With spectacular residences, 15,000 square feet of amenities and just 33 apartments, 520 Park Avenue is arguably the most exclusive building, in the undisputed best neighborhood in New York. ✦ A New Classic: The limestone tower echoes the great historic architecture in a truly modern way.

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With more than 15,000 square feet of amenities and only 33 residences, 520 Park Avenue is arguably the most exclusive building in the world.

Surrounded by Michelin starred restaurants, luxury boutiques and art galleries of Madison Avenue, as well as Manhattan’s most exclusive private clubs—there is no better place to reside.

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MAGICAL WATERFRONT Sag Harbor | $6,500,000 | Boater’s dream, 175 ft of bulkheaded waterfront on Shelter Island Sound featuring a 150 ft deep water dock with power and water. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, and 180 degree panoramic views including Mashomack Preserve, West Neck, Southold, and sunsets over Noyack Bay. Web# H21017

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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE TREASURES 2488 MAIN ST, P.O. BOX 1251, BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY 11932. 631.537.5900 | © 2016 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS ARE DEEMED RELIABLE, BUT SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

STYLISH IN VILLAGE CENTER, NEAR OCEAN BEACHES | Southampton | $5,495,000 | This custom built 4-bedroom, 4.5bath country house is built to the highest standards. Stylish and spacious rooms include a den, large family room/dining room with an open Christopher Peacock kitchen, stained white oak floors, and limestone entry floors. A heated Gunite pool/spa, 1-car garage, and pool cabana. Web# H35341

VILLAGE BEST VALUE | Southampton | $1,950,000 This fresh and bright 4-bedroom, 3-bath home is in one of the more desirable neighborhoods in Southampton Village. Near Coopers Beach and close to all the village shops, world-class restaurants and transportation. All new systems: A/C, furnace, kitchen and 3 baths. On over 1/2 acre with a deck with a 20 x 40 pool. Web# H41421

CHIC IN SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE | Southampton | $2,800,000 This 4-bedroom, 5.5-bath Gambrel is on .37 of an acre and sits on a tree-lined street near all transportation, shops and restaurants. The house offers a formal dining room, den, large living room, gourmet kitchen and screened-in porch. There is a heated Gunite pool, pool house and 2-car garage. Web# H16014

PAULA HATHAWAY Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

O: 631.204.2712 C: 516.319.4223 phathaway@elliman.com ASKELLIMAN.COM

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THE WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Meet some of the most distinguished professionals in the industry.

THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

THE CORCORAN GROUP

SUSAN BREITENBACH Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

OF WHAT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? I’m proudest of consistently being ranked so high by the Wall Street Journal every year. They provide a nationwide ranking of agents by sales volume. I’m the only Hamptons agent to be ranked among the Top 5 agents nationwide for multiple years. 2015 was my best year ever in my 26 years of real estate experience! I am happy to say I am Corcoran’s #1 Hamptons Agent this year and have been consecutively from 2008-2012 and again in 2014.

WHAT IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? You might think it’s getting to see all the amazing properties, which certainly is interesting, but the part of my business I cherish the most is the people I meet. I have made many close friends over the years. Nothing is more important to me than doing the very best for buyers and sellers alike, and being the best at what I do.

“Nothing is more important to me than doing the very best for buyers and sellers alike, and being the best at what I do.”

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE LOOKING TO BUY REAL ESTATE AS AN INVESTMENT IN YOUR AREA NOW? I think the time is right to buy now while there’s still a good amount of inventory to choose from. There are some very good deals and values to be found. Buy the best property you can afford in your price range. Remember: you can always make improvements to a home but you cannot change the location.

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CAN YOU GIVE US SOME DETAILS ON YOUR NEWEST EXCITING LISTING? I am very proud to say I am currently marketing many magnificent properties including five of the most prestigious oceanfront estates from Southampton to Montauk, including a newly listed magnificent modern 10,000 Sq ft residence with sliding walls on both sides opening to pond and ocean, roof top deck, pool house and tennis. I’m also marketing two amazing Sagg Pond waterfront properties including a stunning 15,000 SF brand new modern impeccably designed by Tim Haynes that has everything imaginable, and a stunning shingled traditional designed by Francis Fleetwood on 40 waterfront acres with a dock.

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT IS IT ABOUT WOMEN THAT MAKE THEM SO SUCCESSFUL IN REAL ESTATE? I just want to say there are many successful male brokers that I work with and have a lot of respect for, but I do think women have a lot of intuition and are usually very good at feeling people out and reading people. I also believe women are known for being excellent at multi-tasking and having patience all of which are extremely important and helpful in real estate.

207 Highland Terrace, Bridgehampton. $29.95M. WEB# 48487.

85 Highland Terrace, Bridgehampton. $42.75M WEB# 20375.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT IS YOUR SECRET TO SUCCESS? My proven results are what stand out. And it’s my drive, commitment, knowledge and over 26 years of experience that set me apart. I am always very straight-forward with people and they appreciate that. I listen and constantly take the time to improve my business, by integrating the most innovative marketing and

Crestview Lane, Sagaponack. $38.995M. WEB# 81080.

technology, including social media, my personal website and much more. My negotiating skills have really helped elevate my career as well. I never give up on a deal. My 24/7 work ethic is also important as is my extensive networking and contacts. I have all the support I need to operate my business more like a boutique firm within a large company, enabling me to provide for my clients and customers the best of both worlds, and it works!

THE CORCORAN GROUP 1936 Montauk Highway Bridgehampton, NY 11932 631.875.6000 E: smb@corcoran.com W: smbhamptons.com

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THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Warburg Realty

CLELIA WARBURG PETERS Director of Strategy & Innovation

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN REAL ESTATE? Even though I grew up around the business—my father is Warburg Realty President Frederick Warburg Peters—and was fascinated by it, I felt committed to “doing my own thing.” After a number of years working in management consulting, investing, and technology, I offered to do some strategic planning for Warburg parttime while I worked on another project. One thing led to another and I realized that this was what I most wanted to do. I caught the real estate bug!

WHAT’S THE MOST EXCITING THING ABOUT YOUR JOB? I love that we are a small firm. Once we identify something to improve or experiment with, we can make changes quickly and see the impact in real time. I have always been a “people person,” and Warburg is first and foremost a community. I have really come to believe that the agency’s primary role is to make the agent’s life better, and being able to do that and to try doing it in different ways every day is what keeps me excited. I absolutely love the people I work with, and I am so proud of the caliber of agents at our company. I enjoy thinking every day about what we can do to make their lives easier and to improve the process of buying and selling a home.

I have always been a “people person,” and Warburg is ﬁrst and foremost a community.

WARBURG REALTY 654 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10065 HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR FREE TIME? WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT? Nothing is more important to me than my family and friends. I spend much of my time outside of work hosting friends at home, or seeing the many people I love in New York and further afield. My husband and I both have dual US/UK citizenship and we do a lot of quick trips to Europe to visit friends.

212.439.4547 E: cpeters@warburgrealty.com W: warburgrealty.com

ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY TO REPORT? It’s a really exciting time at Warburg— we’ve gone through a brand refresh, we have a beautiful new office in the Flatiron and one coming in Tribeca, we are building out an incredible suite of tech tools for our agents, and have a major new alliance with one of Europe’s leading brokerages. We also have built what I think is the most

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experienced and dynamic management team in the industry. I’m also proud to have co-founded New York’s first real estate tech accelerator, MetaProp, and to be working with both the tech and real estate communities to think about the future of our industry and to support the young companies who are going to help move us forward. It’s been a very busy time, but also a very good one!

THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Douglas Elliman Real Estate

CAROL NOBBS

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker I have been a consistent top-producing broker for over 25 years, and am established as one of the very best in finding luxury properties for both buyers and sellers. From Montauk to Southampton, with a team of sales assistants I have been able to effectively cover a broad territory meeting the needs of buyers and sellers while providing the highest level of customer service. This past year, I have become an “off market” specialist, finding that unique property for that special buyer. My reputation is built from many years in the industry and is that of an honest and ethical broker who “always does the right thing.” Before moving full-time to Southampton Village, I sold high-end real estate in Manhattan for a boutique firm, Key-Ventures. My success there was attributed to selling townhomes, penthouses and having a very sophisticated and diverse clientele.

I believe savvy buyers look to the Hamptons as a place for a safe investment that will appreciate. It enhances lifestyle and brings families together.

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE 2488 Main Street Bridgehampton, NY 11932 C: 516.729.0897 O: 631.204.2714 E: carol.nobbs@elliman.com W: elliman.com

Prior to my real estate career, I was a schoolteacher with two master’s degrees. I also attended law school which sets me apart me from other brokers as that extra education and legal knowledge helps in creating seamless transactions.

My Bridgehampton oceanfront exclusive, sold and closed within nine months.

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Sotheby’s International Realty

REBECCA CAVALLARO Associate Broker

WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOU PROFESSIONALLY? I am an intrinsically kind person and treat everyone I meet with dignity and respect. My reputation for professionalism and trustworthiness is paramount to me. I work hard to nurture long-standing relationships with fellow brokers, real estate attorneys, co-op board members and managing agents to ensure smooth transactions for all involved. Listening to my client’s needs, researching every angle and preparing for different outcomes helps me facilitate the best course of action for them. I am a lifelong learner and can be found on days off earning a new certification, learning about new technological advances in marketing and visiting apartments on the market to ensure I have real time data and knowledge for my clients. I am a certified property manager and manage my out of town client’s investments. My clients know when they hire me their expectations will always be exceeded. My only concern is fulfilling the real estate needs of my clients with integrity and positive results.

ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY TO SHARE WITH US? My colleague, Pamela O’Connor, and I just put into contract our triplex listing on Central Park South with one of the largest private terraces on the Park. It was sold by integrating brokerage and design. We identified a once-in-alifetime opportunity to create a trophy all-glass penthouse with private pool, 14-foot ceilings, fireplaces and three additional terraces—all seamlessly integrated with the living space. We worked with Steven Nebel of LABhaus to create a customized solution for the buyer’s needs, resulting in added value for the buyer and a record sale price for our seller.

DETAIL FOR US ONE OF THE BEST VALUES OUT THERE. Sutton Place is being rediscovered by a new generation of buyers seeking large apartments in a central location that still retains the charming neighborhood feel of downtown. Home to some of NYC’s most notable names, this enclave is a mix of stately co-ops, condos and townhomes with meticulous gardens and facades. Once people discover Sutton Place, they don’t leave. When an apartment does come up for sale, buyers willing to renovate are drawn to the gracious layouts, beautiful brick buildings, full service amenities and reasonable prices. I have seen Classic 6 apartments renovated with modern open ﬂoorplans, still retaining the prewar details and other combination apartments that create stunning loft-like living space that feels like a home. With the East River parks, mom-and-pop butchers, ﬂorists and pharmacies, world class restaurants and a Whole Foods down the block, Sutton Place is set to become the next “new “neighborhood.

“Listening to my client’s needs, researching every angle and preparing for different outcomes helps me facilitate the best course of action for them.”

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 38 East 61st Street New York, NY 10065 212.606.7641 E: rebecca.cavallaro@ sothebyshomes.com W: sothebyshomes.com

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THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Sotheby’s International Realty

CHRISTINA GALESI

Licensed Salesperson, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor WHAT TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING TODAY IN THE HAMPTONS’ MARKET? I love this question because the market is constantly changing and the opportunities emerge and disappear in different price brackets and neighborhoods. You have to know where to look. The newest trend? Ultra high-end ﬂipping—maybe as a hobby or as an alternative to disappointing stock market returns.

WHAT ABOUT YOU? IT SEEMS LIKE WE SEE YOUR ADS AND LISTINGS EVERYWHERE. Well that’s good! (Laughing). This marks my 17th year with Sotheby’s International Realty—and I still find joy in my work and my clients every day. I’ve been ranked again in the top 2 percent of NRT’s 46,000 sales associates nationwide. I was also pleased and humbled to be recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Real Trends as among the highest performing real estate professionals in the United States and ranked #55 in the nation for Average Sales Price in 2015.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOME BIG NUMBERS. ANY EXAMPLES? Sure. One hedge fund guru is selling luxury properties within months of buying them and reaping huge profits. He bought Wooldon Manor in Southampton for $75 million and sold it in six months for $82 million. A few months later, he bought on Lily Pond Lane for $97 million and is now in contract for $110 million.

THAT’S A BIT OF A STRETCH FOR SOME OF US. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE MEGA SALES ARE FOR THE OTHER PRICE SEGMENTS IN THE HAMPTONS? Well, I would caution against using this as a bellwether for the market as a whole. So many factors come into play, but right now, significant sales are reinforcing consumer confidence at every level. Historically, the Hamptons have a proven investment track record even during the downturns.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PREDICTIONS FOR 2016? According to Curbed.com, “the last quarter of 2015 saw the most sales above $5 million, the most above $10 million, and the highest $5 million plus market share in a decade. The average sales price hit a new record high.” As we start 2016 with demand high, inventory low, and interest rates expected to go up, I think 2016 should hold its own as long as sellers continue to price their properties reasonably. Securities analyst David F. Smith has a point: “No matter what you pay, there will always be someone who comes along to take it off your hands at a higher price. The reasons to invest in the Hampton’s transcend the usual investment economics.”

“This marks my 17th year with Sotheby’s International Realty, and I still ﬁnd joy in my work and my clients every day.”

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 50 Nugent Street Southampton, NY 11968 C: 917.969.0532 O: 631.227.4919 E: christina.galesi@ sothebyshomes.com W: sothebyshomes.com/ hamptons

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THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Fox Residential Group

BARBARA FOX

Licensed Real Estate Broker, President SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THEY NEED TO USE A BIG FIRM WITH MORE LISTINGS AND CUSTOMER OUTREACH, RATHER THAN A BOUTIQUE LIKE YOURS. ARE THEY RIGHT? Of course not! Fox agents have access to each and every listing that’s for sale in New York City, and the listings of our sellers are immediately available to the entire industry. A buyer can view any property through our expanded team of knowledgeable sales associates, who will be representing the buyer’s interest only throughout the process. On the sale side, one clear advantage to our clients is that, unlike many firms, we have no budgets or plans to which our agents must adhere – so we can keep advertising and marketing the property until there’s a closing.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHER SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE? Almost all the others are either first-class transactional brokers or top executives involved in firm management. What distinguishes me, I think, is that I try to excel at both of these pursuits. The firm I founded 27 years ago and actively manage today, Fox Residential Group, has grown from four to over 50 brokers, and I like to think of it as a successful extension of myself. So I’d prefer if your questions were directed at the firm, rather than at me personally.

HOW DOES FOX RESIDENTIAL DIFFER FROM OTHER BROKERAGE COMPANIES? It’s what I call our premium customized service. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not saying that other firms don’t treat their clients and customers well. It’s just that with us, it’s a passion. Right from the start, I knew this was what we needed to set us apart from the larger, more corporate firms. I’ve instilled in our brokers the determination to provide our buyers and sellers with solutions—tailored to their individual needs—to whatever problem they might encounter throughout their transaction.

“The ﬁrm I founded 27 years ago and actively manage today, Fox Residential Group, has grown from four to over 50 brokers, and I like to think of it as a successful extension of myself.”

SO, HOW DOES THIS PLAY OUT FOR SELLERS? The Fox Team takes over the management of the sale and marketing of properties, beginning with accurate pricing, preparing the property for the process – utilizing the “Fox Fix-Up Team” to present their home in its best light—and providing solid advice throughout the transaction. Every deal in our office is overseen by someone who has been in residential real estate for over 30 years and the showings are done by seasoned, knowledgeable brokers – not mere “show-ers” or assistants. And we pride ourselves on our negotiating ability – finding favorable common ground and overcoming obstacles that might cause doable deals to fall apart.

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FOX RESIDENTIAL GROUP 14 East 60th Street Suite 500 New York, NY 10022 212.639.9711 E: bfox@foxresidential.com W: foxresidential.com

OKAY, ENOUGH ABOUT YOUR FIRM. TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT YOU. HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME OUTSIDE THE FIRM? Ten years ago, I started a rescue group called WOOF! which saves dogs and cats that are in the NYC shelters on “death row”. We place them in foster homes, provide needed medical attention, warmth, care, and socialization, and find each one a loving new home. This is very much my passion outside real estate – in fact, I have five rescued dogs and one cat of my own!

THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Brown Harris Stevens Westhampton

MARCIA ALTMAN Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROFESSION PRIOR TO BEING IN REAL ESTATE? HOW HAS THAT GIVEN YOU AN EDGE IN REAL ESTATE? I am inherently creative. I was a clothing designer with retail businesses in NYC and France prior to moving to the Hamptons. That design sense, plus my 27 years of experience buying and selling properties here, has helped me recognize good space, great locations and how to maximize a less-thanperfect home by recommending renovations and modifications, and advising my clients on such.

“I am inherently creative. I was a clothing designer with retail businesses in NYC and France prior to moving to the Hamptons.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE NEXT UP-AND-COMING AREA? Quogue. It has always had the most panache in the western Hamptons. And this past year, the value and interest in Quogue has been explosive. Drive down any street and look left or right. You will experience a building boom from teardowns to once vacant properties now under construction, to renovations large and small.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS WESTHAMPTON, LLC

ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY TO SHARE WITH US? Yes. I am proud to have represented the 4-acre waterfront Wabossagock compound on Shinnecock Road, Quogue. It just closed at a record $11,200,000 for a mainland based waterfront property. I am also excited to now be exclusively representing the new Quogue Mews at 52 Quogue Street, comprised of five properties in the heart of Quogue Village. The first home to market is brand new and 4,000 sf. +/- with full basement and third ﬂoor loft. The Quogue Street façade replicates the original “Weathervane House” that once stood here. And with three oversized fireplaces, plus a fourth outdoors, the large country kitchen with butler’s pantry and coffered 10’ ceilings, the feeling is decidedly vintage cozy. By contrast, from the 10’ ht basement with two egress windows to the Sonos Sound System to the Control 4 Home Automation System, the amenities for luxury living are all brand new and state of the art. For one who loves the vintage feel but doesn’t want to do any work, this could be the perfect home. Two additional post-modern homes are under construction at the Mews, and two building lots will soon be developed. It’s a very exciting project!

WHAT WORDS DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Intuitive, creative, smart, professional, focused, playful.

70 Main Street Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 631.255.5100 E: maltman@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com

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Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons

MARTHA GUNDERSEN Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE SELLING A HOME IN YOUR AREA NOW? Hire an experienced broker and take their advice regarding how to prepare your home for sale in terms of price and curb appeal. Remember that the things that you have an attachment to may not appeal to everyone, you need to de-clutter and de-personalize, and create a fresh environment for the buyer.

WHAT WORD OR WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Honest and ethical with a lot of experience. I am willing to spend the appropriate time doing research for a listing or prepare for a buyer. I don’t like to waste their time needlessly.

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT IS IT ABOUT WOMEN THAT MAKE THEM SO SUCCESSFUL IN REAL ESTATE? I think they are empathetic and willing to listen. They will put their opinions aside for the benefit of the client. They are also more intuitive in many ways and have good instincts—call it a sixth sense!

WHAT ARE SOME SIMPLE THINGS TO MAKE A HOUSE SHOW BETTER? A fresh coat of paint and power washing decks, shingles patios, etc.

I love meeting people and am honored to work with so many talented homeowners, decorators, and visionaries who live and work here.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS, LLC 27 Main Street East Hampton, NY 11932 C: 631.875.6974 O: 631.903.6131 E: mgundersen@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com

DETAIL FOR US A NEW AND EXCITING LISTING. I am very honored to have been working with James Michael Howard, who is brilliant in executing the architecture, design and decorating in the most amazing homes. He currently has Mecox Farms at 41 Halsey Lane, Watermill on the market for sale. The architecture incorporates both classic and sophisticated elements by the skilled and experienced designer James Howard, and it makes this home genius. It is not only a beautiful and inspiring home that is fully furnished, but also a comfortable home your guests will not want to leave. Stay tuned for his newest creation which will be unveiled soon.

WHAT IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING? I am passionate about this part of the world and the lifestyle it affords. I love meeting people and am honored to work with so many talented homeowners, decorators, and visionaries who live and work here.

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THE LEADING WOMEN OF REAL ESTATE

Town Residential

LAURIE GILMORE

Representative, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson WHAT WORD, OR FEW WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Laser focused, fiercely loyal, and fun.

TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN. My time spent as a professional wrestler always seems to take people by surprise.

WHAT’S THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? The hunt and the matchmaking: Working with buyers to uncover precisely which neighborhood suits them the best, and matching them with the property that most strongly supports their lifestyle. A West Village brownstone, a Tribeca loft, a Chelsea co-op each provide a remarkably different experience of life in Manhattan. Finding the one that’s the best reﬂection of my client is an exciting and fulfilling adventure.

ARE THERE ANY CAUSES YOU’RE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT? This is not something I discuss with my clients up front, but after closing I ask them about their favorite charitable organizations. After working with people for months, this is often the moment when you learn what’s closest to their hearts. I always commit at least 5% of my commission to the organization of their choice, but often find myself getting much more involved. Two of my recent favorites, both from Townhouse buyers in Greenwich Village, are the “Environmental Working Group” and “Steady Buckets.” That one really pulled me in. I’m sponsoring three teams this year.

DETAIL FOR US AN EXCITING LISTING YOU’RE CURRENTLY REPRESENTING. The Penthouse at 25 Prince is an incredibly special property. A triplex penthouse which feels like a townhouse, it’s the crown jewel of a boutique condo development lovingly handcrafted with stunning details: walnut herringbone floors; mahogany windows custom made in the south of France; a threestory floating Carrara marble staircase with inlaid gold leaf mosaic surrounded by curved walls of custom millwork; and floor-to-ceiling slab Carrara marble in the baths. Outdoor space on each of the three levels completes the atmosphere of private retreat in the heart of NoLita.

TOWN RESIDENTIAL “I always commit at least 5% of my commission to the organization of their choice, but often ﬁnd myself getting much more involved.”

110 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 C: 917.449.5275 O: 646.790.5031 E: lgilmore@townresidential.com W: townresidential.com

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Douglas Elliman Real Estate

PAULA HATHAWAY Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

OF WHAT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT ARE YOU MOST PROUD? I am very proud of the professional relationships I have developed over the years through my experience working in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Since both of these residential markets are intertwined, the strong connections I have built with New York City agents have kept me in the loop, so to speak. I exchange referrals with them and that gives me the wonderful sense of accomplishment that not many in this very competitive market can claim.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? Because of my exposure to the global community in business, I have developed the ability to collaborate with buyers and sellers at the level of “where they live.” This “global” experience has helped to engender a tolerance and understanding of many different cultures. It gives my buyers and sellers the idea that they are being given the most in-depth and competently comprehensive service possible. They tell me that I have a better understanding of what they want than any of the other agents they have worked with.

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY? Credibility, quick response, competence, complete service, complete confidence and an innate ability to work with all manner and types of people.

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Credible, competent, highly responsive, action oriented and very professional.

“I am very proud of the professional relationships I have developed over the years through my experience working in Manhattan and the Hamptons.”

WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? Since I have over 20 years of real estate sales experience, it is a common assumption that longevity is why I am able to claim huge successes in this business. While all the years I have spent in real estate certainly give me an edge, my competence, credibility and professionalism are the most important inﬂuences in how much business I do.

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROFESSION PRIOR TO BEING IN REAL ESTATE? HOW HAS THAT PREPARED YOU FOR SELLING REAL ESTATE? I have 15 years of world travel for product development and private label packages for major retailers. I have traveled to mainland China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Turkey, India and Uruguay and did multi-million dollar imports in ladies clothing. I am now realizing the benefits of having dealt with different cultures and business mindsets that make up the global community. This has put me in a much better position to offer a diverse expertise that not many other agents can claim.

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE 70 Jobs Lane Southampton, NY 11968 516.319.4223 E: paula.hathaway@elliman.com W: elliman.com

190 Little Plains Road, Southampton Village. WEB# H21735.1

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Douglas Elliman Real Estate

GAIL SANKARSINGH Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

DETAIL FOR US SOME NEW AND EXCITING LISTINGS/ PROJECTS YOU’RE CURRENTLY REPRESENTING. Baccarat Hotel and Residences—a carefully curated collection of ultra deluxe pied-a-terres to palaces in the sky. 45th ﬂoor: $22M 4545SF: 4BD/4.5BA Duplex PH: $60M Approx. 8000SF: 5BD/5.5BA

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY? Market knowledge, drive, candor, tenacity, patience, understanding, empathy, work ethic—all qualities that serve me well, whether I am working on the multiple new development projects I have commanded or on resales properties I have represented.

WHAT WORD OR A FEW WORDS, BEST DESCRIBE YOU? Energetic, positive, grateful, determined, conscientious.

ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY TO SHARE WITH US? At Baccarat Hotel and Residences where I am currently sales director, we recently sold two apartments to ring in 2016 including a full-ﬂoor residence listed at $19,750M. I also closed four deals at 400 Fifth and a couple at 101 Leonard. While predominantly active in new development onsite sales, I also handle resales. I am pleased to have a stellar record at all the projects I have taken on which includes: Manhattan House-200 E 66th St., The Apthorp-390 WEA, 400 Fifth Avenue, 101 Leonard, The Beekman Residences, and so on.

WHAT IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING EVERY DAY? The people I encounter—customers and brokers alike. I can learn something from all of them. I enjoy the interaction of meeting, sharing, and helping. I find it exciting—like a new adventure each time. I anticipate the challenge and I am the eternal optimist. I am intrigued daily by the art of the deal and the processs from inception to closing.

TELL US ABOUT A SHINING MOMENT IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER. I feel honored to have always been at the top of my field, consistently receiving annual awards amongst the highest achievements within my company—the esteemed Pinnacle Club Award, Highest Sales Volume, Most Signed Contracts, etc.

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE

“I am intrigued daily by the art of the deal and the process from inception to closing.”

HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR FREE TIME? With family and friends, my son, reading, traveling (I’ve visited over 70 countries), spending time at the beach, amd skiing. I love running and have done the New York, Boston and London marathons!

575 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 C: 646.592.3431 O: 212.891.7626 E: gsankarsingh@elliman.com W: elliman.com

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Compass

FIONA DUMAS Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES THAT YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY? I have a unique ability to connect on a genuine level with people from all walks of life. I have an ability to identify with clients, and envision myself in their unique situation. Through my own vast life experiences and a decade working as a New York real estate agent, I have learned not only to negotiate and put together deals, but also to match people with apartments, owners with tenants and sellers with buyers. I enjoy creating that harmonious match between people and their homes. Searching for a new home or selling a prized investment can be emotional. I understand the clients search, but also their needs on an overall level. I see myself so vividly in each client I work with. I see the best of times and the worst of times. I see their brilliance, and I love quirkiness. I have been in all of those shoes myself. We become close friends, an extended family. I am very approachable. I don’t take myself too seriously. I like to laugh, a lot.

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIALIZATION? Yes, I do: People. My interest and deeper understanding of people in general is my specialty. I highly customize my work around my clients needs, search requirements and desire. As for specialized locations or buildings, not necessarily. I do a lot of work on Park Avenue. I have sold and rented over 40 apartments at 45 Park Avenue. I know the building and apartment specifications, details, history, and numbers like a computer.

TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN? I grew up on Long Island. I was a competitive swimmer, training four miles a day, and performing competitive Irish Dancing. When it was time to go to college, I was eager to experience as much of the world that I could. I moved to Australia mid-way through my degree, and from there completed my degree at Bond University, Australia. On the flight home from my graduation, sitting across from the flight attendants, with the dreams of traveling the world at my fingertips, I decided to become a flight attendant. For a few years, I worked for UAL. I would take months without pay (they offered that!) and I traveled around the world, absorbing as much as I possibly could.

COMPASS “My interest and deeper understanding of people in general is my specialty.”

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390 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 C: 646.322.5489 E: fiona.dumas@compass.com W: compass.com, fionadumas.com

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN REAL ESTATE? Looking back, this is a funny story. My Irish mom sent my dad to Barnes & Noble to buy me the real estate course book. She told me to go and take the course. Moms somehow always know best. I give my parents a lot of credit for the success that I have in my career. They both have done a brilliant job at keeping me grounded and motivated, but also supporting me in every way through the ups and downs of my career. They didn’t teach me business, but they taught me about life and people. I call my parents almost every day. My mom always wants to know three things: What are you working on? Before I can answer her, she asks, “Are they nice people? Did you find them a nice place?”

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The Corcoran Group

MARY SLATTERY Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

OF WHAT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT ARE YOU MOST PROUD? I am very proud to have been involved in the sales and marketing of Bishops Pond Southampton Village. I worked closely with the developers from the early planning stages through to delivery of the units. This 79 unit development is the most successful of its kind in Southampton Village and it has forever changed the way buyers view condos as a viable option in the Hamptons.

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Thorough, personable, dedicated.

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROFESSION PRIOR TO BEING IN REAL ESTATE. HOW HAS THAT PREPARED YOU FOR SELLING REAL ESTATE? I have had many careers prior to real estate from acting and producing to advertising and marketing. All of my previous professions come into play as a real estate broker.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? Patience. I understand that our market is mostly comprised of discretionary buying and selling so the process can take considerable time. I also have the utmost respect for an individual buyer’s budget and really try to work within the parameters I am given.

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY? I am a people person first and foremost. I value the relationships I build in this business whether a buyer or seller, tenant or landlord or with my colleagues.

IF MONEY WAS NO OBJECT, WHAT PROPERTY FOR SALE IN YOUR AREA WOULD YOU BUY AND WHY? Hands down, I would buy Villa Maria in Water Mill listed for $67,000,000. Originally built in the early 20th century and beautifully restored and renovated, the estate sits on 15 acres of Mecox Bay waterfront and is an iconic Hamptons property. I would be very happy there!

“I have had many careers prior to real estate from acting and producing to advertising and marketing. All of my previous professions come into play as a real estate broker.”

THE CORCORAN GROUP 88 Main Street Southampton, NY 11968 C: 631.375.9943 O: 631.702.9263 E: mary.slattery@corcoran.com W: corcoran.com

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Norma Reynolds Sotheby’s International Realty

VICKY REYNOLDS President

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT YOU THAT ATTRACTS SO MANY A-LIST CLIENTS? Honesty and integrity have always been the top priority for me, especially when it comes to my business. With that as my focus, I have been able to gain long-lasting relationships with customers and clients and owe a lot of my success to the referrals from those relationships through the years. Being born and raised in the Hamptons and understanding how the market is ever-changing has also given me an edge in my market. I am able to give customers the experience and knowledge of a boutique real estate company with the exposure of the most renowned real estate company in the world.

WHAT EXCITES YOU THE MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB? Meeting different people every day has kept it interesting for me through the years and is one of my favorite parts of the job. Learning how to work with different kinds of people is very rewarding, and I have always found that to be one of the most exciting aspects of this business. On the other hand, since many of the amazing listings out here are waterfront, we are lucky to enjoy some of the most breathtaking views of the ocean and bay and it is all in a day’s work. Looking out at the ocean from the balcony of some of the most beautiful Dune Road homes on some of the most beautiful summer days—what could be better?!

NAME ONE PROPERTY YOU CURRENTLY REPRESENT THAT YOU’RE SHOCKED HASN’T BEEN SNATCHED UP YET? I represented 46 Dune Road in Quogue as a rental and currently have it listed for sale. I find that the more expensive homes can take longer to sell, but am surprised that this one is still on the market because of its amazing location. Not only does the property have 165 feet of oceanfront, but it is also situated close to the ocean and yet still protected by the dune. The house itself is beautiful, with some of the most amazing views of the ocean from the second ﬂoor, and also offers an all-weather tennis court and a heated gunite pool.

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“I am able to give customers the experience and knowledge of a boutique real estate company with the exposure of the most renowned real estate company in the world.”

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER CAREER PRIOR TO REAL ESTATE? HOW HAS THAT GIVEN YOU AN EDGE IN REAL ESTATE? Before I became a real estate salesperson, I worked as a buyer for Macy’s in New York City. That job not only allowed me to experience the fashion industry, which was my first passion, but also gave me the negotiating experience I have brought with me into my real estate career. Learning to negotiate the best deal for Macy’s taught me how to get the best deal for all of my buyers and sellers and I think a lot of my success has come from what I learned from working there. Other than the business aspect, I learned a lot from working in New York City that has helped me relate to my clients about things other than the homes they are looking at. When I started my career in real estate, being able to relate to my customers and clients was what helped me begin the relationships that continue to bring me success today.

NORMA REYNOLDS SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 100 Main Street Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 631.288.1050 E: vickyr@normareynolds.com W: normareynolds.com

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Sotheby’s International Realty

KRISTI AMBROSETTI Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

OLGA NEULIST

Senior Global Real Estate Advisor, Associate Broker

OLGA NEULIST Buying or selling a home is a major emotional and financial decision that requires trust, honesty and patience between participants. Olga Neulist is a New York City real estate veteran known for her superior client service and stellar record of extensive sales in the city’s finest buildings. Olga believes it is essential to fully understand a client’s needs and advise them accordingly in order to achieve the best results possible.

KRISTI AMBROSETTI WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? My performing background has been a platform for my success as a listing broker. When showing a property, I guide and listen, reading a buyer and moving around their style to create a synergy rather than a hard sell. I have a keen eye for the creative marketing of properties and my pricing is spot on.

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? Smart, hardworking, empathetic, tenacious, competitive.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE SELLING A HOME NOW? Pricing! It’s all about position within the marketplace and exposure. If a property is priced well, it will sell—period.

TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN. I was an All-American Women’s Lacrosse player.

HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR FREE TIME? Volunteer Coach for the Greenwich House Girls Basketball program, and Chair of the Advisory Board of The BETTY Effect.

ANYTHING NEWSWORTHY TO SHARE WITH US? I was named “Pioneering Woman of Real Estate 2015” and NRT’s Top 2% in sales nationwide for the second quarter of 2015.

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Kristi Ambrosetti 38 East 61st Street New York, NY 10065 C: 917.763.8504 O: 212.606.7702 E: kristi.ambrosetti@ sothebyshomes.com W: sothebyshomes.com

Olga joined Sotheby’s International Realty in 1982, and has earned a respected reputation as a skilled negotiator and closer, even in the most complex markets. She is continually sought-after by a discerning clientele of high-profile executives, public figures, entertainment icons and international buyers/sellers for her expertise. This native of the Czech Republic has also lived in France and Sweden and enjoys traveling the world. She has called Manhattan home for decades, and currently resides on the Upper East Side as well as in Southampton. Olga is personally involved in nationwide vintage car racing on the east and west coasts in her Porsche racecars.

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY Olga Neulist 38 East 61st Street New York, NY 10065 C: 917.821.1116 O: 212.606.7707 E: olga.neulist@ sothebyshomes.com W: sothebyshomes.com

“Buying or selling a home is a major emotional and ﬁnancial decision that requires trust, honesty and patience between participants.”

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Douglas Elliman Real Estate

CAROL STAAB

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN THE FIELD? WHAT EXPERTISE/EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? New Yorkers are highly selective and will only settle for the very best. I have been in the business since 1992 and rank in the top 1% of Douglas Elliman brokers for my sales production. People hire me because I have an excellent track record for getting them exceptional results and providing them with an elite concierge level of service that they deserve.

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES THAT YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE? I have an unquenchable thirst for constantly seeking ways to improve the way I serve my clients and market my properties. I keep my pulse on the market and real estate trends through voracious daily reading. I have great success in selling properties that failed to sell previously. I diagnose the problems and develop a winning marketing strategy that gets excellent results! Some of my clients refer to me as their “real estate doctor.”

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE SELLING A HOME IN YOUR AREA? It is critical in this market to price a home as closely to the market price as possible in order to attract multiple offers. Buyers are more price sensitive and are taking more time making buying decisions.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BEST VALUES OUT THERE RIGHT NOW? Properties on the Upper East Side east of Third Avenue offer great values. Once the Second Avenue subway is up and running, property values will increase dramatically.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BUYERS MAKE? The biggest mistake buyers make is taking too much time to make a buying decision and or making offers that are too low when they are bidding on properties that are very well priced. Well-priced properties are still selling swiftly. “I have an unquenchable thirst for constantly seeking ways to improve the way I serve my clients and market my properties.“

TELL US ABOUT A SHINING MOMENT IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER. A penthouse at 1049 Fifth Avenue failed to sell when previously listed with another broker. After marketing the penthouse for just four months, I had multiple bids that resulted in an all-cash offer for the full asking price of $14,950,000. The deep satisfaction I get from being able to deliver results like these to my clients is priceless.

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE 575 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 O: 212.891.7205 C: 917.273.7787 E: cstaab@elliman.com W: elliman.com

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Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons

ANDREA ACKERMAN Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? I am the female pioneer in the Hamptons luxury real estate industry. For 33 years, I have owned and managed multiple offices, handling all aspects of real estate. I have consistently been one of the annual top producers. From Amagansett through Southampton and to the north, from Sag Harbor through North Haven, I’ve been deeply involved in the changes of the Hamptons real estate markets over the decades— from land to residential and commercial properties. I have also bought and sold as an investor for myself.

I am the go-to person within my company because I am trusted and considered the matriarch in the industry.

WHAT QUALITIES DO YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE? There are certain qualities that cannot be learned, but are more like a gift. I take tremendous pride in my ability to connect the customer with the best and most appropriate properties that fit their criteria. This is more instinctual, along with the ability to listen and understand what clients want. Wasting my time or theirs is not my thing. My unparalleled knowledge of the area, garnered from having lived here for so long, gives me a leg up on the inventory. Finally, my excellent reputation and relationships within the brokerage community give me maximum exposure to everything on the market.

TELL US ABOUT A SHINING MOMENT IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER. One of the most important moments in my career was being given a free and equal partnership in Dunemere, the high end luxury boutique firm eventually bought out by Brown Harris Stevens, the number one real estate brokerage in NY and Palm Beach. There is nothing more validating than a true show of appreciation for one’s talents, expertise and ability to grow the company, as well as being loved by those who are making the offer. Partnership is a long-term commitment.

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? I would describe myself professionally as highly experienced, and extremely well respected. I am the go-to person within my company because I am trusted and considered the matriarch in the industry. Everyone in real estate in the Hamptons knows who I am, so I would consider myself high profile. Most of all, I have maintained a pristine reputation for more than 33 years—not an easy feat in the real estate world.

WHAT’S THE MOST EXCITING PART OF YOUR JOB? WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING EVERY DAY? The most exciting part of my job is making the match of customer/client with a dream property, whether it be personal or investment. I pride myself on having the gift of knowing and leading the way. I love people.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS, LLC 2408 Main Street Bridgehampton, NY 11932 C: 516.356.0900 O: 631.537.4340 E: aackerman@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com ARE THERE ANY CAUSES YOU’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT? The cause I am most attached to is the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center (ADRC). I am part of the committee in charge of creating the first annual gala in the Hamptons. Everyone has known someone who has been touched by this awful disease. The ADRC provides social services for those affected, both patients and families. We have an office in the Hamptons, and we need to educate people about this wonderful resource. My mother had Alzheimer’s. Need I say more?

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Compass

SHIRLEY HACKEL, NYRS® Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE THE MARKET NOW? The market is changing. Today’s transactions are driven largely by life events such as birth and death, marriage and divorce, job relocation and job loss. Homeowners are staying in their homes longer than ever; there’s little discretionary trading up or down; investment purchases have declined. Inventory remains in short supply, and demand continues to be high from buyers conscious of rising rates. However I doubt property prices will accelerate much, especially not during the first six months of 2016, because of pressures from a gyrating stock market, low oil prices and geopolitical risks. Nonetheless, barring the unforeseen, I’m optimistic about the market. The bumps on the road won’t stop transactions, and buyers and sellers of luxury homes will need the counsel of experienced agents more than ever. With less than a 4 month supply of inventory in many market segments, buyers will continue to compete for new properties that come to market that are realistically priced and stylistically presented.

WHEN DID YOU BEGIN YOUR REAL ESTATE CAREER? I started out in real estate months after my first child was born 35 years ago. Previously I’d worked in financial publishing and before that I taught writing at Queens College. From the very beginning, I appreciated that real estate brokerage was about more than selling a product. Building relationships that last and matter became the crux of my career. Then and now, I value each person I meet for in some measure each contributes to my growth and success.

WHAT BENEFIT DOES EXPERIENCE BRING AND WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM YOUR COMPETITORS? I’ve worked successfully through multiple real estate cycles and can speak with authority and conviction that every cycle presents challenges and opportunities. Experience sharpens your skills as negotiator and strategist. I have a particularly high close rate, and my deal execution is ﬂawless. For buyers, I’m always thinking resale, so value is paramount. For sellers, I emphasize that it’s not the last dollar that counts as much as identifying the buyer who will get to the closing table. I’m a creative problem solver, so my repeat and referral business are impressive. Co-brokers know me as a straight shooter, and they have confidence in my judgments. I’m transparent but not a pushover. Integrity, intelligence and heart inform all my actions.

“I’m committed to sharing my perspectives and some of the things I’ve learned in my 35 years of selling luxury real estate.”

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COMPASS 390 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 C: 914.980.0371 E: shirley.hackel@compass.com W: compass.com, shirleyhackel.com

YOU’RE LAUNCHING A NEW WEBSITE. TELL US ABOUT IT. I’m very excited about the launch of shirleyhackel.com and am grateful to Compass for their support. Since 2003 I’ve been writing a column that’s been published to the trade, providing insider insights and observations as well as tips to buyers and sellers. What can I add to the litany of pundits, journalists and real estate bloggers? I’m committed to sharing my perspectives and some of the things I’ve learned in my 35 years of selling luxury real estate. When I taught writing, my mantra was “show, don’t tell” to enable my students to become more effective writers. In my real estate career, my refrain has been “inform and advise, don’t sell” to empower my buyers and sellers to make smart real estate decisions.

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The Matthews Group at William Raveis

STACEY MATTHEWS Vice President of Sales

ARE THERE ANY CAUSES THAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT? I tend to stick local charities, especially ones focused on supporting women, the environment and education. Finding ways to improve and support our community in Litchfield County is my passion.

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER CAREER PRIOR TO REAL ESTATE? IF SO, HOW HAS IT CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR SUCCESS? Working on Wall Street for 12 years gives me a great client base and helps my ability to communicate with customers in a way they understand and trust. Conveying confidence and building this trust allows for effective negotiation on their behalf.

TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS? Being constantly available to my clients 24/7, always being honest with people even when it’s not pleasant, and 16 years of hard work!

DESCRIBE A PERFECT NIGHT IN YOUR AREA? Well, I love to cook and entertain. I really enjoy introducing people with similar interests to each other. A perfect Saturday night for us is having great friends and clients over for dinner. It’s always casual and home-cooked. I think people appreciate that effort and intimacy.

WHAT ONE PROPERTY ARE YOU REPRESENTING THAT YOU ARE SHOCKED HAS NOT SOLD? Lower Church Hill Road in Washington has not sold because it needs a bit of interior renovations (kitchen, baths, etc.) and people seem too busy to want to take on the work. The location is absolutely amazing and the views are incredible, looking out over protected farmland, a pond and land trust. It is a great investment property.

Lower Church Hill Rd, Washington $3.995M.

IF MONEY WERE NO OBJECT, WHAT PROPERTY WOULD YOU BUY? Falls Road in Roxbury would be a spectacular place to live. It is a real compound and has lots of room for indoor and outdoor entertaining as well as river frontage. I would love to live there.

“Finding ways to improve and support our community in Litchﬁeld County is my passion. “

THE MATTHEWS GROUP AT WILLIAM RAVEIS 4 Green Hill Road Washington Depot, CT 06794 860.868.0511 E: matthews@raveis.com W: matthewsgroupre.com

WHAT FIELD OTHER THAN REAL ESTATE COULD YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF? Interior design. I am constantly redecorating my house—I have to keep it fresh!

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Douglas Elliman Real Estate

PAULETTE MONDSCHEIN Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

BRUNA COSTA

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? Similar to a strategic financial portfolio, your best hedge against tumultuous economic times is to be diversified. That’s one of our greatest assets. Together, we bring over 25 years of global expertise. Together, we are conversant in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Italian and English. Combined, we cover all of Manhattan and Brooklyn and are equally comfortable selling and purchasing Brownstones in Brooklyn, Upper East & West Side co-ops and condos, pre-war and new construction. We are multilingual, multifaceted, and offer a global perspective based on experience, achievement and success.

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES YOU POSSESS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY? The qualities we offer our clients is who we are to our friends and family. There is no difference. We have excellent listening skills, and a

tremendous work ethic. This is a 24/7 business; no different than the relationships we have with the people in our lives. We are tough and fair and utilize the tools we have gathered over the years to exercise strength in negotiations and common courtesy and sense. Loyalty, integrity, a passion for excellence and a sense of humor have served us well throughout our lives and will continue to serve our clients well for many years to come.

“We are multilingual, multifaceted, and offer a global perspective based on experience, achievement and success.”

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE Paulette Mondschein 575 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 C: 917.838.9161 O: 212.702.4058 E: pmondschein@elliman.com W: elliman.com Bruna Costa 575 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 C: 646.321.3835 O: 212.702.4012 E: bcosta@elliman.com W: elliman.com

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DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROFESSION PRIOR TO BEING IN REAL ESTATE? HOW HAS THAT PREPARED YOU FOR SELLING REAL ESTATE? PAULETTE: Before entering the real estate profession full-time, I had another challenging and exciting career. Previously, I was responsible for the American launch of the fashion house, BALENCIAGA, and brought their fashion to the U.S. retail market. This tremendous endeavor provided me the opportunity to practice and execute skilled negotiations with confidence and assertiveness and how to forecast. The ability to look ahead and not back is a valuable tool both Bruna and I put to work to successfully navigate New York’s sophisticated real estate market.

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? We are street smart and savvy and possess great instincts and people skills. Those assets encourage and support long lasting relationships with brokers and multiple generations of clients. Real estate is all about sales. Whether buying or selling, it’s still all about sales. Discretely and without drama, we will get exactly what you need. That’s our mission. That’s our job.

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Brown Harris Stevens Westhampton

DARLENE MANZELLA Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? WHAT EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE? I’ve been working in real estate for 31 years. Prior to that, I worked for custom builders and architects, expedited building permits, and became very familiar with zoning restrictions. Having this knowledge is essential when helping my clients. I know numerous individuals who work in the field, and I know what questions to ask. This saves my clients a lot of valuble time.

WHAT WORD OR WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? I have a great memory. I easily remember the names and faces of people I meet, and having lived and worked in Westhampton for many years, I have an exceptional memory of the area’s real estate history. I also have endless enthusiasm and boundless energy, and I work very hard for my buyers and sellers.

IS THERE A MOVIE OR TELEVISION TITLES THAT SUMS UP YOUR PROFESSIONAL STYLE? I always say that real estate is like the TV show, “The Dating Game,” because every time I go on an appointment, I meet new people and am excited by the possibilities—sort of like a blind date!

“What keeps me going every day is the end result of a successful transaction for both the buyer and the seller.”

HOW AND WHEN DID YOU GET YOUR START IN REAL ESTATE? I’ve been a licensed real estate salesperson since 1985 and specialize in residential sales and rentals from Remsenburg to Southampton. What keeps me going every day is the end result of a successful transaction for both the buyer and the seller.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS WESTHAMPTON, LLC 70 Main Street Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 C: 516.885.7567 O: 631.288.5527 E: dmanzella@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com

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Brown Harris Stevens Westhampton

DEIRDRE DEVITA Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROFESSION PRIOR TO BEING IN REAL ESTATE? HOW HAS THAT PREPARED YOU AND GIVEN YOU AN EDGE FOR SELLING REAL ESTATE? Before getting into real estate, I had a 16-year career as a ballet dancer. Ballet is a great teacher of life, because it is grounded in physical reality. You have to work with what you have. There’s no faking it, there’s no shortcut to proficiency, and there is no resting on the laurels of past performance. Being on stage is, again, a no-excuses situation: you execute the choreography, even if your toes are blistered, the ﬂoor is slippery, or your partner has a sore shoulder. The audience does not know about any circumstance that may be inhibiting your best effort, and they don’t care. Immersed in that environment for all of those years, I developed my own definition of professionalism: a professional is highly competent, even on their worst day. Also, as an artist in a very competitive, youth-oriented business, I realized that in order to keep being employed I had to add value to every situation that I was in. These ideals guide me still, and they are as relevant in real estate as they were in dance.

“My approach to the business is simple: I focus on success for my clients, whether they are sellers, buyers, landlords or tenants.”

WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM OTHERS IN YOUR FIELD? There is a wide range of modes of operation in our business—most agents and brokers are independent contractors, after all. I am always interested in and inspired by the different formulae for success that I see my colleagues employ. Some are power-listers, some are great closers, and some are networking night and day. My approach to the business is simple: I focus on success for my clients, whether they are sellers, buyers, landlords or tenants. I try and make each element of the process that we engage in a success, and I place advocacy for my client above all other considerations. It’s all about agency! This practice really keeps the business interesting and vibrant for me, and I have found that if you focus on the big arc of client advocacy versus deal-making per se, all of the other components of a transaction fall into place.

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BROWN HARRIS STEVENS WESTHAMPTON, LLC 70 Main Street Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 C: 212.580.3969 O: 631.288.5409 E: ddevita@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE NEXT UP AND COMING AREA? The part of the Hamptons where I work, which lies west of the Shinnecock Canal, has long been under-recognized. We have all of the same beautiful beaches, charming hamlets, and culture that the rest of the Hamptons offer, but we are closer to the city with much less traffic, and you can still get a lot more house for your money here. In the past couple of years, we have seen a shift in the perception of this area. People are starting to catch on, and a tangible uptick in activity and prices reﬂects this.

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Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons

JANE E. HOLDEN Licensed Associate Broker

WHAT WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU PROFESSIONALLY? I think the best words to describe me professionally are competence and integrity.

DESCRIBE FOR US A SHINING MOMENT IN YOUR REAL ESTATE CAREER? Having a happy buyer and seller is definitely a shining moment for me!

WHAT MOVIE OR TV BEST DESCRIBES YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE? Every time I am making another bed or I’m washing dirty dishes, I think of Annette Bening in American Beauty.

WHAT MAKES YOUR GEOGRAPHIC AREA UNIQUE? Sag Harbor is a very special place. The history is long and rich. Our harbor was designated one of the first ports of entry to the United States by George Washington. Where it once was a stop for whaling ships and the Underground Railroad, it now is a stopping port for private yachts. The diversity of the people who have lived here is reﬂected in the fact that we are the only Village on the East End that has houses of worship for Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Baptist and Jewish religions. We also have the only Jewish cemetery on the East End. When you see real estate properties with me, you will love Sag Harbor and its history as much as I do.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN REAL ESTATE? I was always good at sales. My children were in school full-time and I wanted a career. My stepmother was very successful in real estate and convinced me I would be also. That was 34 years ago. I say a prayer of thanks to her every day.

“When you see real estate properties with me, you will love Sag Harbor and its history as much as I do.”

WHAT’S THE MOST UNUSUAL REQUEST YOU’VE HAD TO ACCOMMODATE IN ORDER TO MAKE A SALE? The most unusual accommodation was from a sale where the seller had 24 hours to vacate.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS OF THE HAMPTONS, LLC 96 Main Street Sag Harbor, NY 11963 O: 631.725.5581 E: jeholden@bhshamptons.com W: brownharrisstevens.com Waterfront living in North Haven

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Avenue asks Dr. Steven Victor, one of New York’s leading regenerative and cosmetic dermatologists, what excites him most about today’s Age Defiers. What is the most rewarding part of your job? As a regenerative and cosmetic medicine physician, I’m able to give my patients a more meaningful and comprehensive approach to achieving the youthful appearance and vitality we all seek. Restorative treatments, at the cellular level, bring an improved quality of life by delivering elevated results from the inside out. When a patient suddenly understands and experiences their restorative potential in action—there’s nothing more rewarding than helping them reach their goals! What made you choose your area of specialty? I added regenerative medicine to my cosmetic dermatology practice because the future finally caught up with my passion for rejuvenation and reversing the hands of time! The human body is our most powerful restorative instrument, and advances in medical technology are rapidly changing the way we think about and access our body’s ca pabilities. We now realize far superior results by creating multi-tiered treatment plans that marry agedefying improvements with restorative sustainability. We should give ‘youthful maintenance’ the same rigor as car maintenance. Think about it—a car comes with tune-up instructions to keep it looking and running like new—why wouldn’t we apply this same level of attention to our youth? With regenerative medicine, people now have long-term opportunities that keep us looking and running like new! Have you noticed any questions in what people are asking for? One significant advantage of my particular field of medicine is that I see products and therapies long before they become trends. Age-defying technology is always trending. ThermiFR utilizes technology to stimulate regenerative cells that tighten skin. Improved classes of injectable that offer softer contours for a more natural overall appearance is also highly requested, as well as innovative procedures that engage the healing properties of our body’s regenerative cells. They “heal” areas of aging and promote long-lasting improvements to our quality of life. I want patients to look and feel their best for the long-term, so I design strategies that bring a higher level of success than what is possible with emerging trends. If you weren’t in your current profession, in what other field could you see yourself? There is no other field for me. The medical profession provides the most powerful human experience: the ability to help someone. This incredibly rewarding work continues to bring me amazement, purpose, and joy. It’s thrilling to be involved in regenerative medicine during its infancy and serve as one of its leaders. Let’s face it—we all want our youthful appearance while living longer and feeling great. We want it all, and regenerative medicine is moving us closer than ever before. ✦

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Face Forward AVENUE speaks to top Upper East Side plastic surgeon and mother of four Dr. Lara Devgan You have been designated a New York Times Magazine Super Doctor and #1 Female Cosmetic Surgeon in New York. What does beauty mean to you? Beauty is about being the best version of yourself. My philosophy is natural results without obvious signs of surgery. Healthy skin, an expressive face, and balanced features. You are known for your signature mini facelifts and eyelifts. Why are those special? I focus on doing more with less. I use smaller incisions and hidden scars for the face and eyes. Everything is natural looking—nothing tight, pulled, or plastic. What about younger people who just want a little pick-me-up? Save the money you’re spending at the cosmetic counter at Bergdorf and buy medical-grade products. [Last year, Devgan launched a medical-grade skin care line, Dr. Devgan Scientific Beauty.] What advice would you give to someone who is thinking about plastic surgery? You only have one face, so trust it to an expert. Plastic surgery is an investment, but you are going to bear your surgeon’s work for the rest of your life. It’s all about quality and credentials. ✦

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CANDID MOMENT A Toast to Kelly Klein’s January AVENUE Cover

1. Alex Condon and Dana Koch 2. Bettina Anderson and Kelly Klein 3. Nicole DiCocco and Sarena Weil 4. Renee Steinberg and Robbi Toll 5. Kimberly and Roger Yaseen 6. Bruce Gendelman and Paulette Koch

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AVENUE toasted to Kelly Klein and her January cover with the Koch Team at Corcoran at 100 Casa Bendita in Palm Beach. Copies of the issue were in full supply, and guests flipped through the pages and mingled among friends. Attendees included Paulette and Dana Koch, Bettina Anderson, Nicole DiCocco and Bruce Gendelman.

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Hamptons Heart Ball Kickoff

A festive cocktail party was held to celebrate the upcoming the Hamptons Heart Ball, which will take place at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton this June. Hosted by Jean and Martin Shafiroff, the event brought together more than 150 guests, including Barbara Hodes, Andrea Wernick, Cornelia Guest, Geoffrey Bradfield, Margo Langenberg and Edgar Batista. 1. Cornelia Guest 2. Lee and Cece Black 3. Ann Rapp and Geoffrey Bradfield 4. Randi Schatz, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Andrea Wernick and Tracy Stern 5. Cassandra Seidenfeld and Barbara Regna 6. Jean and Martin Shafiroff 7. Liliana Cavendish 8. Elaine Hammond, Dr. Jeffrey Moses and Barbara Poliwoda

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Notable New Yorkers gathered at Baccarat Hotel & Residences to celebrate the birthday of Lauren Muss, super broker at Douglas Elliman. Guests including family, friends, and real estate titans, sipped cocktails and enjoyed a delectable chocolate cake while mingling throughout the evening. 1. Mark Ehret and Jennifer Miller 2. Dr. Laura Berman and Jennifer Gilbert 3. Nazila Jarrahian, Kim Sapperstein and Maria Elena Scotto 4. David Shorr 5. Lauren Muss and Howard Lorber 6. Alex Malin 7. Joey May and Jill Heller 8. Marcy and Michael Warren 9. Sara and Ken Pilot

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Chelsea, Hillary, and Bill Clinton on the campaign trail

SOCIETY STEPS INTO SPRING

Lotos Club, Frank Stella, Whitney, Mapplethorpe, White House and the Budapest Festival Orchestra THE SUNDANCE KIDS

Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp @ Sundance

Rumer Willis and Demi Moore like Skoozi

Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Herb Karlitz bring back Harlem EatUp!

Robert Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in 1978 to celebrate American-made films. It was named after his character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which costarred Paul Newman. Directors Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Jim Jarmusch and David O. Russell are among those who got their big breaks here. Taking Sundance by storm this winter was Nate Parker, who followed Sylvester Stallone’s playbook for the original Rocky. Parker wrote, directed and stars in Birth of a Nation alongside Gabrielle Union, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller and Mark Boone Junior. The film, about a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1831, is already Junior garnering Oscar buzz for 2017. It sold for a festival record-breaking $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight, which also distributed the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. NYC attorney Christian Simonds, who represented the filmmakers, literally worked all night with the film’s sales agent Graham Taylor to finalize the deal. Simonds, who’s married to Gillian Hearst Shaw, confided, “It was beyond rewarding to see all of Nate’s hard work over the last seven years culminate in this historic deal.” More than 200 films were screened in this pictuesque ski town built in 1847, including director Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers, a horror comedy starring Johnny Depp and their daughters, Lily-Rose Depp and Harley Quinn Smith; and Mapplethorpe: Pictures, a documentary produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein Look at the Pictures about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that’s set to premiere in April on HBO. Sundance.org

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ACE OF CLUBS

Gabrielle Union @ Sundance

Rose McGowan, Chosen Few designer Anthony Taccetta and Sara Cline @ National Arts Club

Mark Twain called the Lotos Club the “Ace of Clubs.” This literary club was founded in 1870 and is situated in an elegant Second Empire–style mansion off Fifth Avenue that was built by Margaret Vanderbilt Shepard in 1900. Other members have included Andrew Carnegie, Solomon R. Guggenheim, P. G. Wodehouse and Orson Welles. This year the club’s State Dinner, cochaired by Ellen Monk and Steven North, honored the artist Frank Stella, whose brilliant retrospective served as the opening show of the stunning new Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District. Stella said, “My father said I had one responsibility, which was ‘not to be a burden on society.’ Toward that end he taught me a trade: he taught me to scrape floors, use sandpaper, varnish and paint. I was a housepainter, and through that I was able to support myself for a period of time, but the reality was that I didn’t want to be an artist, I really wanted to not be a burden on society. I was planning on becoming something else but I just wandered off and became a painter.” Others who have received the Medal of Merit include Ulysses S. Grant, Enrico Caruso, Amelia Earhart, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Frost and Yo-Yo Ma. Guests

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Kati Marton and Sylvia Hemingway @ The Friends of Budapest Festival Orchestra

PENELOPE MILLER

Christine Schott Ledes, Jean Shafiroff and George Ledes @ American Heart Association

Sheila Rosenblum @ Eclipse Awards

Laura Lofaro Freeman, Frank Stella and Ellen Monk @ LOTOS Club

Dani Rylan, Margaret Butler and Mia Dell’Osso-Caputo toasted EduSkating

Sundance founder Robert Redford and Meryl Streep

identifies the gilded set on the red carpet through facial recognition so there will be no more spelling names for the paparazzi. Whew! Marjorie Gubelmann, aka Mad Marge, spun for the ritzy crowd at Number 8. nameface.com . . . . . During Art Basel, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’s edgy actress daughter, Rumer Willis, helped Dancing THE WHITE HOUSE’S CHILDREN’S UNIT A savvy and razor-sharp Chelsea Clinton has been popping up in Park with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Olympic ice dancer Meryl Avenue living rooms talking about her mother. She told me this story, Davis launch Skoozi, a new app that allows you to speak to the “When I was 5 years old I wrote a letter to President Reagan: ‘Dear stars via live video chats or have them record messages for your Mr. President, I’ve seen The Sound of Music, the Nazis don’t look like smartphones. skooziapp.com . . . . . Glamorous racehorse syndicate very nice people. Please don’t go to their cemetery. Sincerely, Chelsea owner Sheila Rosenblum’s filly La Verdad won the Eclipse Champion Clinton.’ On the letter, I put my favorite rainbow heart sticker and Female Sprinter Award, which is the equivalent of the Best Actress included a whole sheet of stickers as a show of goodwill. I was deeply Oscar. American Pharaoh took home Horse of the Year. Shelia has redisappointed that he still went, but I was slightly disappointed that I tired La Verdad from racing, and the mare has been sent to Kentucky didn’t get a response, and I went to the mailbox literally every day for to be bred to top stallion Medaglia d’Oro. ladysheilastabletwo.com . . . . . two months. I would’ve been so thrilled to get a postcard back to let me Kati Marton and Sylvia Hemingway gave a cocktail to announce that know that I had been heard. So when my dad won the election in ’92, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO), under the baton of maestro my parents asked me what I wanted and I said, ‘I want every kid to get a Iván Fischer, will give their 20th anniversary concert at response to any letter that they write to the White House.’ So, my father Carnegie Hall this season. Last year, David Allen, a music Times, wrote the BFO “might created the Children’s Correspondence Unit. Now, all kids’ letters get critic for the New York Times treated separately and get a more kid-friendly response than just the be the best in the world.” bfz.hu . . . . . Cornelia Moses, Liliana Cavendish, letter that I missed, and that’s continued under every administraGuest, Dr. Jeffrey Moses Weintraub, Geoffrey Bradfield and tion. Now I’m kind of glad Reagan didn’t write back.” Chelsea Dr. Barry Weintraub said she hasn’t ruled out running for office. It feels like she’s Dr. Christopher Calapai were among the guests running already, but for what? whitehouse.gov at the kickoff of the 20th anniversary of the American Heart Association’s Hamptons SAFARI ROUNDUP Heart Ball. The benefit, co-chaired by Costin, Nicole Jill Kargman, who created and stars in Bravo’s Odd Mom Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin Dr. Barry Noonan, Tracy Stern and Randi Schatz, Out, hosted a party with Kelly Bensimon to launch Noonan Weintraub and Jill Sand @ will honor Jean Shafiroff in BridgeNameface.com, an app created by society photographer American Heart hampton on June 25. heart.org ✦ Steve Eichner and Daniela Kirsch that automatically Association 142 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • AVENUE ON THE BEACH • MARCH 2016

included Lotos president Michael Yon, Tony Bennett, Janna Bullock, Diana Kalman, Laura Lofaro Freeman and her husband, James Freeman, who is the chairman of the Art Committee. lotosclub.org

AN EVENING UNDER THE STARS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

HAMPTONS HEART BALL SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016 HONORING

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE HONOREE

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P R O F . O F S U R G E R Y, N Y U L M E D I C A L C E N T E R

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