WAG September 2015

RALPH PUCCI

Mannequins figure into his life

DAVID KOMA

styles an edgy career

A DOLL OF A COLLECTION FROM MICHAEL AYERVAIS KIM SEYBERT’S

couture for the table

HEAD NORTH FOR DISTINCTIVE DESIGNS AVRIL GRAHAM’S

passion right on trend

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Setting the trends Changes in store…

‘Tie’-ing one on Due North Coming up Roses Fairfield fashionista lives on in Project HEAL A passage to India Bit by the fashion bug ‘Couture for the table’ East meets West Fashionable, inside and out The naked truth Rebel without a pause From bags to riches Dior between the covers Clothes horse Stretchy, curvy and a touch of leather COVER STORY: Ralph Pucci – His vision elevates mannequin to art

A Ralph Pucci mannequin adds drama to a staircase at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. See story on page 58.

Photograph by Bob Rozycki.

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ON THE COVER: A scene from “Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin” at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.

RALPH PUCCI

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threads the articles in our annual fashion issue is the way in which our subjects fashion their creations — whether they be the Space Age-y mannequins that grace our truly unusual cover (designer Ralph Pucci and take a bow, Bob and Mary, in bringing us his story) or one of the great fashion magazines, Harper’s Bazaar, led in part by exceedingly gracious executive fashion & beauty editor Avril Graham, the editor as educator.

What Pucci and Graham understand is that “God is in the detail” (attributed to architect Mies van der Rohe and novelist Gustav Flaubert). It’s an understanding shared by established designers like the joyous Zang Toi and rising stars like the dynamic David Koma. But it’s also a philosophy that can be applied to retail titan Neiman Marcus Westchester, the new Bronxville boutique North (Mary again), the trio of home-related concerns owned by the Rose family in Yonkers’ Carpet Mills district (Reece’s story), the Pleasantville corporate accessories company Scarborough & Tweed (Colleen’s article) and the handmade Indian goods in Port Chester’s Haath Designs. (See our intern Lauren’s story and how we miss her now that she’s back in school.)

Quality over quantity, however, drives not only fashion here but everything from Ducati motorcycles, which vroom into our romance of the motorbike story, courtesy of Anthony’s photos, and former WAG cover subject Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen in Manhattan (Danielle B.’s piece and how fun is that place?)

Speaking of fun, we had a great time at Steiner Sports Marketing in New Rochelle and “Poolside Pairings” at the Castle Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown asking WAGwit’s question of the month: Have

Victor Espinoza and me at Steiner Sports Marketing in New Rochelle. Photograph by Ben Zettler. Courtesy Steiner Sports Marketing.

you ever made a fashion faux pas? Oh, the stories people told. My own relationship with fashion is a somewhat complicated one, which may surprise those who think of me as a clotheshorse (more emphasis here on horse than clothes). My fashion sins have been many and varied from trying to follow trends that were not well-suited to me (ah, the ’70s) to my love affair with matchy-matchy.

But perhaps my “greatest” moment came at an event I was covering for WAG, to which I wore a thin gray dress that hugged my curves perfectly, I thought. Perhaps it fit too well, for at one point I felt the seam split up the back. Good thing I was wearing a slip.

Thinking quickly — or perhaps desperately — I wrapped my pink paisley shawl around my waist, underscoring the considerable backside that was in my mind the culprit.

Still, I sallied forth, and someone stopped me to say, “Great dress.”

As Avril Graham notes in our profile of her, there’s no greater accessory than confidence.

Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Water Music” and the forthcoming “The Penalty for Holding,” part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” which is also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes at thegamesmenplay.com.

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Avril Graham outside Hearst Tower.

AS EXECUTIVE FASHION AND BEAUTY EDITOR OF HARPER’S BAZAAR, AVRIL GRAHAM HAS ONE OF THE MOST GLAMOROUS JOBS IN THE WORLD. The Oscars’ red carpet. Commenting on the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Polo weekends with Nacho Figueras. (Sigh.)

But if you’re thinking “The Devil Wears Prada” or “Ugly Betty,” think again. This is an editor in the best sense of that word — the editor as educator — a woman who brings a warm, nonjudgmental attitude to a lofty post that’s really all about sharing information and empowering others, particularly women.

“I’m lucky that my role also takes me out of the office to be a voice for the magazine,” she says. “It’s a joy to be able to go out and meet people face-to-face.”

Neiman Marcus Westchester patrons will have plenty of face time with Graham when she hosts a fashion show to benefit the Georgetown Scholarship Fund at the White Plains store Sept. 30.

Though she says she’ll have more to share then, having come from New York Fashion Week earlier this month, she mentions some general trends for this season — lots of fur, the continuing love affair with the 1970s with the use of embroidery in the retro look and plenty of red and burgundy.

Looking chic in a cream-colored blouse with a black bow, a black pencil skirt and black gladiator, spike-heeled booties, Graham is seated on a table in the Closet — which contains the clothes and accessories for the photo shoots. As a group of interns works quietly on the far side of the room, heels and sunglasses stand at attention in cubbyholes. Accessories snake along a table. And a rack of clothes awaits a celebrity who cannot be named.

“The major A-listers have all been on our covers,” Graham says. There are two kinds, each serving as an entrée to a magazine “for the well-dressed woman with the well-dressed mind.” The newsstand covers feature text that signal the delights within. The covers for subscribers — well versed in those delights — are devoid of text. They’re all about the art — and the artistic.

Graham points to two elegantly sexy subscriber covers — a side view of a siren-like Gwyneth Paltrow, her blond hair obscuring her face, Veronica Lake-style; a deep slit in her black goddess gown revealing a long, toned, glistening leg. The other is a picture of Rihanna wearing a gold one-piece bathing suit and matching heels and lounging like a pinup in, yes, the mouth of a shark. (WAG didn’t ask how this was done. Why destroy the magic?)

Covers like these have led Adweek to name Harper’s Bazaar the hottest magazine of the year.

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the 25th floor of the 44-floor Hearst Tower, a historic building that blends an Art Deco base with a jagged glass skyscraper a stone’s throw from Columbus Circle.

But Harper’s Bazaar isn’t about its past, however glorious.

“Fashion always looks to the future,” Graham says.

It’s not just the moment but “anticipating the next moment” — not surprising in a medium where you’re always working three months ahead. To that end, the cubical-style office, with commanding views of the Hudson River, is filled with makeup palettes and mood boards that contain pictures of fashion shows organized by city, makeup artist and hair stylist. Culture — an upcoming film, an artist like Jeff Koons — is another source of inspiration.

In such a creative environment, the emails fly and the staff meetings are plentiful. And while Graham says Editor-in-Chief Glenda Bailey will have a vision for each issue, anyone on the staff — each of whom Graham calls an expert in his field — can walk into her office with an idea. “It’s a democracy,” Graham says. “It’s always a dialogue…” among staffers, between the mag and the top celebrities and models, the magazine and retailers.

And, perhaps most important, between the magazine and its readers, who are not necessarily 18 years old and size 2.

Graham advises women to update their looks, including their wardrobes, hairstyles and makeup bags,

periodically. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune, she says, adding that you can always mix pieces of clothing or makeup products.

And it doesn’t have to be a drastic makeover: “If you’ve always worn a shimmering blue eye and the season calls for a smoky one, try it. You can do it slowly.”

The most important tool in your makeup bag, she says, is “inner confidence.”

“Never try to be anyone else. Be yourself and accentuate the positive.”

Avril Graham will host a Neiman Marcus Westchester fashion show Sept. 30 at 11:30 a.m. to benefit the Georgetown Scholarship Fund. The store is in The Westchester, 2 E. Maple Ave. in White Plains.

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Changes in store…

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

WHEN NEIMAN MARCUS DESIGNS ONE OF ITS 41 STORES, THE LUXE RETAILER CONSIDERS TWO ELEMENTS FIRST — THE MERCHANDISE AND THE SHOPPER. That credo will inform the upcoming makeover of the lower level and level one of Neiman Marcus Westchester, which is sure to gladden the hearts of those who love precious jewelry, cosmetics — and men.

The Precious Jewels Salon, which presently occupies an elegant spot to the right of the Beauty area, will be moving to an expanded but still intimate space at the back of level one where the gift galleries are.

Ignaz Gorischek — vice president of creative and design, Neiman Marcus Stores, says it will be “a beautiful new environment with new LED lighting to make the jewelry sparkle, and it will be designed so that we can add vendor enhancements and new vendors. … The design mantra is a modern feel, simple, tasteful, with glass and sculpted lighting fixtures that are central to creating a sophisticated ambience.”

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Locke, profiled in the first issue of the revamped WAG (February 2011, “Royal Treatment”).

“When we design a space, we always think of the merchandise first but also, ‘How do you feel shopping in that space?’” Gorischek says. The new Precious Jewels Salon — which will flow seamlessly from Designer Jewelry — will be “a little more private, with a diamond viewing room.”

Adjacent to the salon will be a 1,000-square-foot Van Cleef & Arpels shop that will look just like the company’s tony standalone boutiques.

And while there won’t be a traditional home department anymore — how we’ll miss the MacKenzie-Childs displays — there will still be seasonal popup displays, he says.

All of which leaves 2,000 square feet more for beauty, which reflects the idea that it is a big part of fashion.

There will be LED lighting offering true-to-life color — so that those trying on makeup no longer have to worry whether it really matches their coloring — along with space for vendors new to the store, including Dior, Lancer and Tom Ford.

To the left of Beauty is Designer Handbags, where Céline and Prada will be given dedicated spaces, with the center of the department used to showcase upand-coming designers.

So lots for the ladies on level one. But the gentlemen are not being neglected. A good percentage of the lower level will be renovated, Gorischek says, with the men’s shoes department doubling in size to 600 square feet. This reflects an increased interest in shoes on the part of men, he adds, in two ways — sneakers and dress shoes for work. There will also be a dedicated space for Tom Ford’s ready-to-wear collection.

The Man’s Store is definitely woman-friendly, Gorischek adds.

“The use of wood is soothing, calming. … It’s gender-neutral and just good design.”

The plans for refurbishing the lower two floors come one year after the transformation of the Zodiac restaurant into Mariposa, Spanish for the NM signature, the butterfly. Response to the new restaurant, Gorischek says, has been “fantastic. First of all, it’s a restaurant to eat in and be seen at.”

Credit the yin-yang design. There’s the yin of the sedate dining room and the yang of the animal-print circular bar that looks out onto level three. The bar features small vertical, rectangular screens designed to evoke the views from airplane windows, only instead of clouds, butterflies or goldfish may drift by.

Says Gorischek, “It does allow you to dream a little bit.”

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An array of ties at Neiman Marcus Westchester in White Plains speaks to the expressivity of this power accessory. Photograph by Bob Rozycki.

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CLOTHING HAS LONG BEEN THOUGHT OF AS A FORM OF COMMUNICATION, WITH WOMEN’S AFFORDING THEM GREATER EXPRESSIVITY. All the more reason to pay attention to the necktie as indicator of men’s occupations, moods and even personalities.

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ties in two basic colors — red and blue. Red is the color of the basic power tie, a stimulating, eye-catching hue that oozes energy, sexuality, passion and dynamism. Red also denotes nobility, love and attention to details. Other shades convey other meanings. Darker reds, such as burgundy, imply trust, and magenta, self-confidence, while lighter shades of red and pink can make statements for engaging personalities.

Blue, however, is the safe, all-purpose color

of the international power tie, due to its calming effect. In world leadership conferences, most participants wear one of the 50 shades of blue. It is thought to signify creativity and is the top choice for businessmen, with turquoise signaling an outof-the-box creativity and open-mindedness.

Green is worn by easygoing nature lovers and reflects harmony and stability.

Orange suggests a wearer full of energy with a love of adventure.

Black is favored by revolutionaries, traditionalists and stylish gentlemen alike.

White ties are worn on formal or special occasions in Europe and America. But in China they signal a period of mourning.

Yellow: Beware of committing a cultural faux pas with this one. In England yellow is a traditional color, symbolic of the sun, showing optimism. But don’t wear it in India unless you’re a salesman.

In Washington, yellow or purple ties could be interpreted as statements of aloofness or just plain carelessness, a perception that no ambitious politician wants. Nor would he ever be seen in pre-tied or clip-ons worn by lazy guys or “on the prowl” neon ties with blazing psychedelic designs, prompting nosy journalists to suspect an illicit affair.

EVOLUTION OF THE TIE Men’s neckties can be traced back 22 centuries, with perhaps the earliest examples appearing on the life-size ceramic army buried with China’s

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first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, in 210 B.C. and excavated in 1974. The 7,000 armed warriors wore terra-cotta neckties in different styles painted in various colors. Archeologists assume the accessories — which seemed to foreshadow some of the styles worn today — indicated rank.

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Among those taken with the new neckwear was a budding fashionisto, the boy-king Louis XIV who set the sartorial standard for the French court and, as it turned out, the rest of Europe. The cravat became a symbol of style and status. But it took a long time to tie the various kinds properly. As nations became increasingly industrialized over the next three centuries, affording aspiring men both less time to dress well and the manufactured solu-

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tion to that problem, neckties became long, thin and easy to knot. And those have been the criteria — with variations on pattern, texture and width — that have survived to this day.

Certain countries, however, have strong anti-necktie sentiments. They were forbidden in Communist China, during the Mao suit period. But when Deng Xiaoping announced “Rich is Glorious,” fancy silk brocade neckties came out of the closet to give astute businessmen an air of authority and professionalism.

In Iran, theocratic Muslim rulers have denounced the necktie as a decadent symbol of European oppression, although Iranian men abroad often wear neckties. Journalists refer to hard-liners as “Turbans” and soft-liners as “Ties.”

In various counterculture movements, neckties are viewed as being symbols of submission and slavery. And even among the power elite, there are occasions like the campaign trail when sans tie may be preferred.

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OU WOULDN’T KNOW IT FROM APPEARANCES BUT NORTH, TAMMY EHRENFELD’S YEAR-OLD BRONXVILLE BOUTIQUE KNOWN FOR ITS SINGULAR APPROACH TO STYLE, WAS BORN OF FRUSTRATION.

It was the frustration of being a Westchester woman tired of her commute to Manhattan and being far from her two young children.

It was the frustration of a 20-year career in advertising and marketing that was no longer fulfilling.

And it was the frustration of not being able to shop locally for the distinctive fashions found on lunchtime jaunts in SoHo, Greenwich Village and Tribeca.

“I was also frustrated because I live locally, and I saw all the empty storefronts, and it felt wrong,” Ehrenfeld says.

It all came to a head during one date-night dinner.

She was, she says, again expressing her frustration with her career when her music-producer husband Nathan — the pair had relocated from Los Angeles several years earlier for a better quality of life — urged her to take action.

“He said, ‘Just open your store. You’ve wanted to do it for years.’”

It would be the push she needed.

And it would be a return to her roots, as Ehrenfeld had studied fashion merchandising in college and went on to work for a Hollywood-based clothing company that outfitted rock bands such as Guns N’ Roses.

She had left that world for a job at Mattel, the start of some two decades in advertising and marketing that she resumed in Manhattan after the family settled in Bronxville.

“Advertising is advertising, so wherever you go it’s going to be the same structure — and stresses,” she says.

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shop was an idea “in the back of my mind for quite some time.”

And Ehrenfeld says she knew she had made the right decision when settling into her Pondfield Road space in late summer of 2014.

“When I looked out my window, I could see the table I was sitting at” during that fateful meal at Scalini Osteria.

CREATING DIRECTION

The name North, Ehrenfeld says, is a nod to the direction she brought the city fashions she was seeing.

But hers has become a store with a strong sense of direction, as well.

Having lived in Bronxville a few years then — it’s six years now — she had developed a sense of what would connect with what many told her was a “preppy” approach.

“Really, the women want to be original,” with styles that make them “feel good.”

Her customers, she adds, are women — not girls — who can appreciate the way she handpicks her offerings.

The designers she carries, she adds, have to have “attitude — absolutely.”

But they must also embrace a strong sense of design and a commitment to quality.

She mentions the way Gary Graham draws on his background in Broadway costume design to create fashions with drama and presence. She then points to the time-honored techniques in a coat from the German-based Annette Görtz.

“The craftsmanship is really excellent,” she says.

“When a woman puts it on, they feel like a woman.”

She likes that items are not “cookie-cutter” styles found on every block but rather well-sourced pieces from Nili Lotan or tops from Raquel Allegra, handmade in California. The Japanese brand pas de calais is favored for its “really nice clean line, that whole Japanese aesthetic.” Haute Hippie might be better known, Ehrenfeld says, so “the pieces I get from them, I try to really edit it.”

Of course, she carries jeans, including styles

from Current/Elliott, Robin’s Jeans and 6397, which she says offers skinny jeans “that I like to say have a ‘secret sauce.’ They take off 5 pounds just because of the way they’re cut.”

A strength of Ehrenfeld’s is her ability to look at a customer and know what silhouette will suit her best, a skill evidenced several times on a recent morning when she suggested options to women who were both surprised and delighted with a tunic or dress they would not have even considered. (For the at-home experience, Ehrenfeld offers closet consultations.)

“I want people to know that I will make them feel good.”

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North’s offerings extend beyond clothes.

“I try to be really choosy with the accessories,” as well, she says.

Supplementing Ehrenfeld’s selections are those from nearby jewelry store Citrine, which has its own showcase to give gift-hunting husbands some fine-jewelry options.

“It speaks to the community, and it speaks to the husbands,” Ehrenfeld says with a laugh.

There is a compact selection of bags and plenty of shoes with a European sensibility.

Rounding it all out is a small section devoted to clothing for boys ages 5 to 12, or as Ehrenfeld says, “the age when moms could shop for the kids.”

North itself has a funky elegance — gilded and industrial accents seamlessly mixing together for a signature look — and a laid-back welcome.

Ehrenfeld wants women not only to shop but also to settle into the couches to flip through a fashion magazine, watch their kids play with the toys on hand or simply chat away.

For years, men would shoot the breeze at the barbershop, a practical place that became so much more.

As Ehrenfeld says of North, “This is our version of that.”

North is at 65 Pondfield Road in Bronxville. For more, visit North clothing store on Facebook, at northbxv.com or call 914-202-9608.

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Randolph Rose alongside a collection of Japanese kimonos.

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HE ROSE FAMILY NOT ONLY COLLECTS AND PRODUCES HARD-TO-FIND AND UNUSUAL DÉCOR — THEY THEMSELVES ARE A BIT OF A RARITY.

“People know us as unique, that is our genre. Everything you see is handpicked,” says Randolph Rose, co-owner of FEA Home and its sister companies R.J. Rose Realty and the Randolph Rose Collection of custom-made bronze sculptures.

For the past 10 years, the Rose family, originally from Scarsdale, has been rehabbing a 170,000-squarefoot, multi-tenant loft building at 500 Nepperhan Ave. in Yonkers, part of the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District.

The five-story building is three football fields in length and, in the more than 140 years since its creation, has morphed from a bustling industrial center employing more than 7,000 people to a virtually unused warehouse.

Now in its latest iteration under the guidance of the Rose family, the building is becoming a major destination for artists in Yonkers.

“When I bought this building, there was only one tenant and that was us,” Randolph says. “Now we have 29 tenants.”

They include 15 artists in commercial lofts who are part of a growing creative community recently recognized by Yonkers as the Carpet Mills Arts District.

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commercial hub.

FEA Home has already made the Nepperhan Avenue location something of a sight to see. With home décor ranging from museum-quality antiques and antiquities to exotic oddities like opium beds and petrified dinosaur eggs, the Roses have filled several thousand square feet and multiple floors wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling with treasures.

Randolph began his career and collection in the 1970s when he joined his cousin Stephen Gano’s already prospering business exporting rare finds from Thailand to a mutual aunt’s antiques store in Manhattan.

“My job was to take a one-man business that was his and make it more well-known,” Randolph says. “I spent three years traveling the country doing trade shows.”

After joining his cousin, Randolph went on to own several showrooms under the Far Eastern Art and Antiquities name in Lower Manhattan as well as Palisander in the Decoration & Design Building.

Trade shows have proven to be a particular source of good fortune for Randolph and over the ensuing 25 years he turned his knowledge of them into a veritable golden goose.

He and his sons have tailored their custom bronze sculpting business to a variety of niche markets focusing on a new trade show theme every few years. Now Randolph Rose sculptures can be found across the country, from parks, schools and libraries to shopping centers, country clubs and corporations. They’re even found internationally in Spain, Russia and Ukraine.

“I always look five years ahead,” Randolph says.

“What’s going to happen when the market gets saturated, what are we going to do next.”

He attributes some of his luck in business to one of the early antiques he acquired — a 19th century “One of a Kind Shakyamuni Buddha Sculpture” from a temple in Myanmar.

Prominently featured in the FEA Home showroom, the nearly 5-foot tall Buddha with piercing ivory eyes and a gold leaf headdress is considered priceless by Randolph.

“I’ve never wanted to sell it. It’s been my good luck piece since 1972,” he says. “I turn down six figures all the time.”

The piece was featured in the first anniversary celebration of Studio 54 and was also rented to introduce the campaign for the Christian Dior perfume Poison — but that is just the start of the celebrity attraction.

With tens of thousands of historic square feet, the building and its wares have drawn the attention of film and TV producers. The recent Leonardo DiCaprio hit “The Wolf of Wall Street” featured FEA Home décor, and Woody Allen is expected to use the location for filming this month.

What Randolph and his now-retired partner began is now being passed on to Randolph’s sons, Austin, Jordan and Harlan. The three brothers have worked beside their father and mother, Ellen, to expand the business and include real estate, with Randolph leading the charge.

“It is about a sense of pride of continuing a legacy and being in a unique business,” Jordan says.

“We don’t just do one thing — we are an antiques dealer, a real estate company, we are designers, we do custom sculptures,” Harlan says. “It is just a unique entity that all three of us were drawn to. The funny thing is none of us thought we would ever join the family business.”

With their successful businesses maxing out their space in the current building, the family is now looking to buy a 210,000-square-foot property next door at 179 Saw Mill River Road — also a part of the Carpet Mills District — which Randolph expects to close on by Labor Day. Working with Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, Randolph hopes to capitalize on the already present artist community in the area and create a Yonkers’ version of Brooklyn or Hoboken, with an anchor tenant on par with Facebook or Google.

“We love this business,” Randolph says. “Everyone is here not because they have to be here, but because they want to be here. I don’t know many people who can say that they still love their business after 50 years.”

He hopes to solidify the family legacy with a new generation of grandchildren he’s trying to persuade to join the companies — though if his sons are any indication, it won’t take much convincing at all.

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HOSE WHO KNEW KATHRYN LAUDADIO COULD TELL HER MOOD BASED ON WHAT SHE WAS WEARING. Her closet-full of shoes by Jeffrey Campbell, Dolce Vita and others enhanced a multitude of styles, and rarely, if ever, did she repeat an outfit.

Her eclectic, colorful attire often resonated with other patrons at Las Vetas, the Fairfield coffee shop she’d frequent to write in her free time, says her mother, Lisa Gfeller.

“Imagine someone dressed like Lady Gaga walking the streets of Fairfield,” Gfeller said with a slight chuckle. “If you walked the streets of New York City, nobody would look twice. In a sleepy suburb like Fairfield, heads would turn.”

Laudadio struggled with anorexia and bipolar disorder for much of her life.

Shoes and fashion enabled her not only to express herself but also to cope with the issues she was facing, Gfeller says. Despite treatment and a strong support system around her, however, her demons proved too tough to overcome.

Laudadio committed suicide at age 22, two years ago this month. Her family, though, has made it their goal to keep her spirit alive while also helping other fashionistas who are plagued by the same issues she faced.

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HEAL, a Douglaston, Queens, nonprofit that offers grants to those suffering from eating disorders who cannot afford the sometimes-exorbitant treatment costs.

Recently, Project HEAL forged a partnership with Fashion Project, a Boston nonprofit that accepts donated clothes and resells them to benefit various charities.

Working with the two nonprofits, the Kathryn Laudadio Memorial Shoe Project was born. The goal — raise $10,000 toward a scholarship in Kathryn’s name that could help cover treatment costs for those suffering from eating disorders.

Her 204 pairs of size 7½ and 8 designer shoes — including heels, platforms, flats and wedges — became available for purchase on Fashion Project’s website in late July. As of mid-August, the family had raised $1,600 of the $10,000 goal, which equates to roughly 40 pairs of shoes sold. (Slightly more than half of the proceeds from sales go toward the grant in her name.)

Fashion Project CEO Anna Palmer said Kathryn’s story was inspirational and representative of the organization’s mission.

“Our goal is to change the way people think about clothing donations,” said Palmer, whose organization has received more than 300,000 items of clothing since its inception in 2012. “Typically, they think about a trash bag drop-off at a thrift store, but people don’t realize the impact some items

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can have on those receiving them. Not only are her shoes having a big impact, but you can see a little bit of Kathryn in them.”

Since not everyone wears a size 7½ or 8 shoe, there are other items listed on Kathryn’s page, including handbags, shorts and pants. Even though most of the other items were not Kathryn’s, proceeds from those sales will also go toward the future scholarship in her name.

According to The National Eating Disorders Association, nearly 30 million Americans — including 20 million women — suffer from eating disorders.

“We’re trying to raise awareness that eating disorders are very serious mental disorders,” Gfeller said. “It’s not about a vanity diet. There are physical consequences that can be deadly, but recovery is possible even if it wasn’t in the cards for my daughter.”

The Greenwich-born Laudadio, a lifelong Fairfield resident, was a vocalist, performer and Gold Key Scholastic Award-winning playwright. After graduating from Fairfield Ludlowe High School, she took courses at Sacred Heart and Fairfield universities. She also wrote a blog to express her love and interest in everything fashion.

As her family prepared to move from Fairfield to Bridgeport recently, Gfeller said Kathryn’s vast collection of shoes — which were stored in several boxes — were much better served going to other fashionistas. They’ll always have a piece of Kathryn with them, though.

“She could go from looking like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a gorgeous Chanel jacket and very understated shoes to Lady Gaga to Marilyn Monroe to biker chick,” Gfeller said. “She was bold, she was outrageous, she was colorful.”

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A passage to India

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N A SOCIETY THAT REVOLVES AROUND UPTO-THE-MINUTE MASS-PRODUCED GOODS, PARVIZ BATLIWALA, THE OWNER OF HAATH DESIGNS IN-HOME BOUTIQUE IN PORT CHESTER, thinks differently. Batliwala sees the value in using traditional and established techniques for her collection of handmade women’s fashion and home décor items imported from India.

Batliwala started her business about 11 years ago after a trip to India to visit her family.

“The way this happened was that many of my friends would ask me, ‘Oh where did you get that?’ Every time I brought something new back from my trips to India, they would all admire it.

So I thought since everyone liked these items, why don’t I try this as a small business.”

In Haath Designs — haath meaning hand — Batliwala works closely with artisans around the world to create handmade products with classic designs and a contemporary twist.

“Everything is hand-embroidered, hand-woven, hand-block printed, hand-dyed, and 90 percent of

it is hand-chosen by me. Then I put it together so that it works for the Western market.”

Committed to overseeing almost every aspect of the creation of her collection, Batliwala travels throughout India to consult with artists, designers and craftsmen.

“I come from Mumbai, and I have a very good supplier over there who has been wonderful to me.

I have traveled to many different parts of India with her to see where these items are actually made.”

Batliwala will go to the villages to select the colors and fabrics she wishes to use in making her products.

“Some of the fabrics I will even put together. I’ll choose the blocks and then tell them which colors I want with which pattern. I am very particular about the quality and the finish of my designs.”

Due to the intricate work that goes into Haath Designs, the results are completely one-of-a-kind items, whether they’re jewelry, pottery, scarves or jackets. Among the techniques used are ikat and printing. Ikat is a method of weaving in which the threads are tie-dyed prior to the process to cre-

ate designs on the finished fabric. Printing uses a wooden block, which is hand-carved with a personalized design. The block is then dipped in a natural dye and applied to a cloth to make the finished product.

Each item will be more unusual than the last, making Haath Designs a perfect go-to for the gift-giving seasons.

“I do the majority of my sales right before the holidays. Right before Thanksgiving, I sell a lot of linens. Then during the rest of the holiday season, my scarves and jewelry sell because they make great gifts.”

Outside of the gift-giving season, Haath Designs offers light, airy women’s wear that is perfect for the summer heat. “I have scarves that can be used as sarongs for the beach. I also make summer dresses and kimono wraps.”

When looking at Haath Designs’ pieces, you feel as though you’ve been transported to India. Batliwala even offers in-home private showings, which bring India to you.

For more, visit haathdesigns.com.

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From Rami Kadi’s Fall/ Winter 2016 collection.

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RANZ KAFKA, MEET RAMI KADI.

In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa wakes up one day only to find he’s a bug. It would be Kadi’s greatest nightmare.

But he’s taken his entomophobia and run with it, creating a fall/winter line inspired by various insects and called “Lucioles,” or “Fireflies” that uses glow-in-the-dark materials. Through this collection, the Lebanese-American designer tells the story of his own metamorphosis, challenging whether fear can form beauty.

Spending more than 400 hours perfecting select styles, Kadi fashions black-and-white pieces that range from gowns with insect-like embellishments to trousers with built-in capes of ostrich feathers and Argentine fox. He adds beetle-shape trimmings and lace to replicate a spider’s web.

Fascinated by fireflies, Kadi dedicates several pieces to these magical creatures, which bubble up from a sea of grass in the evenings. With silk and sequin leaves married with luminescent embroidery, the couture hints at a reawakening under moonlight, just like its evanescent muses.

For more, visit rami-kadi.com.

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‘Couture

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Kim Seybert, the luxury lifestyle accessory designer.

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THERE’S A CERTAIN ELEGANCE TO THE TABLETOP DESIGNS OF KIM SEYBERT. And that comes as no surprise to those familiar with her story.

Seybert, after all, began her career in the fashion industry, studying in both her home state of Illinois and New York on her way to becoming a dress designer.

It would be a time that found her focusing on sourcing and working closely with both factories

and artisans who specialized in the couture techniques of hand beading and embroidery.

Soon, she shifted gears — the result of a frustration with finding “colorful, creative and fashion-inspired” tableware for her own use — and in 1998 launched her namesake firm that today is synonymous with elegance, opulence and glamour.

Around the world, on land and sea — her designs outfit many a yacht —Seybert has helped elevate home entertaining through signature hand-beaded runners and placemats, hand-knotted, hand-embroidered and hand-painted napkins and beaded, hand-painted sculptural napkin rings.

These statement-making luxury goods have also graced our pages, with WAG getting the chance to meet Seybert herself this spring when we were invited to her New York showroom for a collection preview.

There, we clearly saw the influence of fashion on her designs, from the detailed manner of production to the encouragement of layering a tabletop much in the way a one-of-a-kind ensemble comes to life.

Throughout her collections, Seybert reflects an ease with mixing and matching and promotes a

look that reflects your own tastes, travels and influences.

It’s also a reflection of the way she lives, drawing design inspiration from frequent travel and entertaining friends and family at her homes in the city and East Hampton.

Seybert might interpret architectural elements, distinctive hues, elements ranging from landscapes to sea life or incorporate classic design styles, from Art Deco to Greek Revival.

With hand-blown glassware, decorative accessories and china all part of the mix, the Kim Seybert look continues to expand and evolve.

WAG checked back in with Seybert recently, and she graciously answered a handful of our questions, expanding our appreciation of both the designer and her most fashionable creations.

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spirits are looking down at you — and seeing a niche where I saw a lot of opportunity. I had established myself designing eveningwear for a high-end label in New York. I love glamour and embellishment, and I incorporated a lot of beading, sequins and embroideries in my work. The inspiration to apply my design sensibility to tabletop came while redecorating. I had just renovated my New York City apartment and was looking for linens and found it difficult to find the level of style and glamour I was looking for.

“Coming from the fashion world, I realized dressing a table is actually a very similar practice to dressing oneself and that’s what brought this notion into full focus for me — to bring my love for fashion, hand-beading and lavish adornment (almost everything in our collections is handcrafted in some way) — to create couture for the table. So I went home, sketched out what I wanted and had some samples made. With that first small collection (and an opening order from Bendel’s) a new business was born.”

can mean something as simple as putting a justcut flower from the garden into a vintage vase just so — to admire its beauty at the breakfast table — to throwing a lavish dinner party for 24 on a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean.

“I design what I love and am guided by what feels fresh and fashion forward, what essence of the inspiration can be brought to life in a placemat or a napkin ring. If I like it, I know our customers will.

“These days, I also find that people want that sense of fashion and luxury across all the ways they live their lives — from setting a casual, worry-free table on the deck at their summer house to full-on beads and bling for more opulent and formal entertaining. I also encourage our customers to be adventurous. So we’ve expanded our design approach in the last few seasons to offer even more flexibility to our customers — more ways to layer pieces that let each customer create their own looks and show off their own unique style.”

WHAT INSPIRES YOU AS YOU CREATE YOUR COLLECTIONS?

“Well, of course, running a business is always challenging, but I have been blessed with many talented and dedicated artisans from around the world who bring the collection to life every season.

And that’s the exciting part, too. Working with other fashion and design professionals — from the store buyers we work with to interior designers to individuals that ‘get’ what we do — is so gratifying. But ultimately, when a customer sends a photo and tells me how beautiful their dinner party or luncheon or wedding table was, that is the most gratifying thing any designer could ask for — being a little part of making beauty and style happen.”

“I absolutely adore textiles and handicrafts from around the world, and I love to travel off-the-beaten path, especially in Asia. This past year I realized my dream of going to Myanmar, and it was breathtaking — so inspiring — the markets, the temples, the incredible glowing sunsets. There was such a palpable sense of serenity and calm there that’s so ancient and ‘right now’ all at the same time — just being there taking it all in was like a yoga in itself. It was a great place to put aside the craziness of New York life and take in new ideas, see new patterns, new colors, experience a new culture. Needless to say, I was sleepless on the flight home with excitement for all the possibilities, for thinking how I could put this newfound energy and beauty into the next collection (and panicking slightly trying to figure out where I would store all the textiles and other treasures from the trip).”

WHO IS YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER — AND WHAT IS SHE (OR HE) LOOKING FOR THESE DAYS? From top, a selection of the new Kim Seybert designs for fall.

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“My customer is the person who looks for style and the luxurious in everything — who wants to be surrounded by that in some way every day. That

WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF YOUR JOB — AND THE MOST REWARDING?

WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY ABOUT HOME ENTERTAINING? “As the phrase goes, ‘Life is a banquet.’ Setting a stylish, beautiful table is just one way to more fully savor the company of the people gathered around it. Enjoy.”

Kim Seybert designs are featured at highend department stores and specialty boutiques worldwide, including Neiman Marcus Westchester in White Plains, Current Home in Scarsdale and Hoagland’s of Greenwich. For more, visit kimseybert.com.

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BY DANIELLE RENDA PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN RIZZO

MICHAEL AYERVAIS IS A HAIRSTYLIST (owner of Ayervais Salon in Manhattan), a photographer, an art dealer (owner of Gallery 228, also in Manhattan) and something more — a collector with a most unusual passion.

Ayervais’ Manhattan apartment is home to hundreds of examples of Ningyô, traditional Japanese dolls crafted from the 17th to 19th centuries. The Ningyô (meaning “human shape”) range from everyday people to warriors, royalty and mythical figures. They were created as spiritual guides, family memorials, formal gifts and mementos of community celebrations, including the annual “Hinamatsuri,” Girls’ Day, and “Tango no Sekk,” Boys’ Day. But ironically, they were never played with.

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Asia Art Fair and The Las Vegas Art Museum, and has served as the focal point of many texts. The native New Yorker doesn’t just collect the dolls, though. He restores and sells them, too.

“The Japanese didn’t take them as art, they took them as part of their lives,” he says. “Every piece has its own history and its own mythology.”

His broad collection features everything from the earliest forms of the dolls — stick-like figures without heads, wearing hand-sewn garments — to dolls that could be mistaken for young children.

“The reason they look alive is because they’re all made of live materials,” Ayervais says. “The surfaces are oyster shell lacquer, silk, the inside of wood, straw and paper.”

In addition to the Ningyô’s many purposes, there are also different forms. Ayervais holds one of the Ichimatsu, which appear no different than

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toddlers. They were created for the Japanese geisha, who were unable to have children and carried Ningyô as alternatives.

Other Ningyô include the Hina, the classic Ningyô with a pyramid-like body, wearing layered gowns that were stuffed with straw or wood; the Musa, both male and female warriors; the Gosho, overweight male babies exchanged as gifts within the royal family; and the Iki-ningyô, life-size dolls used for theatrical purposes.

All of these Ningyô — and more — can be found in Ayervais’ apartment.

“It’s been a very interesting journey,” Ayervais says. “Between the pieces and the people I meet and just the story of the Ningyô. The Ningyô are really the center soul of Japan. It’s what every other art form kind of circles around, and yet, it hasn’t been discovered the way it should be.”

Ayervais discovered his passion more than 20 years ago, after attending an antiques exhibit at the Park Avenue Armory and spotting a Hina emperor and empress set with spellbinding faces. Ayervais left the exhibit empty-handed with plans to return the following day. To his dismay, the pair had been purchased, a disappointment that only intensified his interest and resolve to become a collector.

Ayervais’ collection has since earned him a following in the art world, along with the opportunity to travel and meet fellow collectors, and, of course, add to his growing collection. When asked how his pieces are selected, he admits the mesmerizing faces and mysterious expressions still draw him in.

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Fashionable, inside and out

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

ZANG TOI AND MARY JANE DENZER ARE SHOWING OFF ONE OF HIS DESIGNS IN HER EPONYMOUS STORE NEAR THE RITZ-CARLTON WESTCHESTER IN WHITE PLAINS. It’s a black evening dress with ropes of pearls built into the front of the gown. Clever enough but then he lifts a slit to reveal the inside — which is embellished with hand-beaded flowers. Now that’s a wow.

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like it’s a secret. You don’t have to flaunt everything that’s beautiful.”

But it’s one thing to design something that’s beautiful, another to create something that’s truly imaginative. Toi’s attention to detail — the hand-beading on an opera cape with a landscape of Venice alone took eight people seven weeks — and his unusual perspective have made believers of everyone from Melinda Gates to Patti LaBelle

to Saudi Arabia’s Princess Haifa Al Saud.

Even the way he himself is dressed is special — crisp white shirt and mini kilt, black socks and shoes.

The kilt has a story, one that Toi — who has an impish, joyful personality — is only too happy to share.

His two older brothers were educated in Scotland and to honor them he created his “An Asian in Scotland” collection in 2001. Toi wore a kilt to the Council of Fashion Designers of America gala, and The New

York Times ran the biggest picture of him in fashion photographer Bill Cunningham’s coverage.

“It was such a big hit, and it’s so comfortable,” Toi says of the kilt.

Ever since then, the kilt has been a signature — so much so that even in conservative places like the American South or Saudi Arabia, patrons say, “Where’s the kilt?” (In Saudi Arabia, they also say he can wear whatever he likes.)

His kilts are made by Kinloch Anderson, which designs Prince Charles’. On a trip to Scotland to see his brothers, he visited the venerable company to have a kilt made of tartan plaid in gray, white and baby blue.

Because he’s compact, knee-length would not do, so Toi asked to have it shortened — by 13 inches.

“I thought the tailor would fall off the chair,” he says, laughing.

That trip to Scotland was a gift from his father, who always believed in his son’s aesthetic ability despite his conservative Chinese ancestry. Toi grew up in Kuala Krai, “a two-street village” in Kelantan, Malaysia. His parents ran the local grocery and the family — including seven kids, of which Toi was the youngest — lived over the store.

“I always loved to draw and sketch, but I wasn’t one of the boys who wanted to grow up to be a fashion de-

signer. I was always fascinated, though, with beauty.

Later on I realized it’s all related.”

From a young age, Toi was put in charge of creating Christmas cards for the family’s British customers.

When it came time for his schooling abroad, however, the family budget was such that Great Britain was no longer an option. Toi spent a year studying in Toronto before coming to New York to attend the Parsons School of Design. After apprenticing with Mary Jane Marcasiano and Ronaldus Shamask, he opened his own atelier in 1989 and soon was one of the first Asian designers to be championed by Vogue’s Anna Wintour.

Today that atelier occupies the 20th floor in a building on 48th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues that overlooks Rockefeller Center. There he and his staff create women’s day, evening and sportswear from start to finish, along with a few made-to-order men’s articles. The fabrics — from silk gazar to Loro Piana cashmere — are unbelievably luxurious to the touch. The designs — including one that reproduces a painting of Turner’s Venice, a place close to Toi’s heart, in woven silk jacquard — are ingenious.

“My philosophy is always quality over quantity. My job is to make women feel and look beautiful.”

For more, visit zangtoi.com.

Zang Toi at Mary Jane Denzer.

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THE naked TRUTH

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

N HIS SEMINAL 1956 BOOK “THE NUDE,” ART HISTORIAN KENNETH CLARK CONSIDERS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WORDS “NAKED” AND “NUDE.” “To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word ‘nude,’ on the other hand, carries in educated usage no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous and confident body — the body re-formed.”

Still, Hudson Valley artist Nadine Robbins, painter of strong nudes, sees no such distinction.

“I see nudity and nakedness as artificial definitions,” she says. “Whether you pose nude or naked, it takes confidence.

I don’t see a difference between the two.”

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Robbins does, however, draw a line between her paintings and the pages of Playboy.

“I don’t see my work as sexual,” she says. “I think it’s stronger. Each work tells a story.”

“Davida,” a 2014 oil on linen, is Robbins’ womanly response to Michelangelo’s “David,’” right down to the directed gaze and the spread-legged stance with the weight shifted to the right side of the body. “Mrs. McDonald” (2013) offers the viewer a meditation on our pleasure in American consumerism while “In Memory of Henry” (2015) marries the nude body to naked emotion in an open-armed, tattooed study of remembrance and loss. (All three works feature Robbins’ friend Kaitlin, she of the Titian hair.)

Robbins sees her realistic nudes as “raw, honest, strong, vulnerable — kind of like me. I say it like it is.”

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But she adds that the storytelling in her pictures “a lot of times comes from the person I’m photographing.” Robbins begins with photographs of her subject. “Basically, it’s the equivalent of a sketch in which you’re able to capture the uninhibited moments immediately.”

“A morning person,” she rises early and gets into the studio of her home in Milan, just outside artistic

Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, to ignite the process of turning a photograph into a painting. She begins with a drawing using thinned oil paints on stretched high-grade linen. (Robbins keeps her paints wrapped in plastic in her freezer so they won’t dry out.) Then she blocks in the colors “to give a sense of shading and build layers, adding more and more details.

“Skin tones are a challenge,” she says.

“Every dab has to be well thought out.”

Hence one of the reasons she favors oils, which, unlike watercolor paints, dry slowly and can be layered on to achieve the nuances of flesh tones and skin particularities.

Such is the intensity of Robbins being “in the zone” that four or five hours may pass with the artist at her easel before her neck tells her that it’s “time to stretch or get some exercise.”

“I have from the get-go always been an artist,” Robbins adds. Her mother was an artist and when Robbins was a child of 6 in the early 1970s, she took her to a bullfight in the south of France — where they lived part of the time — on the off chance of seeing Pablo Picasso. They didn’t. But Robbins ab-

sorbed the great French traditions of art as well as the more casual European attitude toward nudity.

“I don’t see nudity as something to hide from,” she says. “The choice to pose nude says you’re pretty strong.”

Back in the states, Robbins studied graphic design along with drawing and art history at SUNY New Paltz. In 2008, though, she “shied away” from commercial art.

“I needed a challenge,” Robbins says. “I always loved painting, particularly portraits.” Female nudes have offered her that challenge.

Not that she hasn’t done male nudes.

“I haven’t painted one in a long time,” she says.

“But it doesn’t make a difference to me. If the opportunity came along, that would be great.”

Nadine Robbins is working on a series, “Guilty Pleasures & Bad Habits,” that includes “Double Gulp,” about art collector Howard Tullman’s love of Diet Coke; and “She-Ra,” with poet Matthew Hittinger dressed as the animated character. In the meantime, Robbins’ nudes “Davida” and “In Memory of Henry” are featured in the seventh annual “Nude” exhibit at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati through Sept. 11. For more, visit manifestgallery.org.

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‘DIVINE’

BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY LALIQUE

WAG WAS RECENTLY INVITED TO MEET AGAIN WITH THE HEAD DESIGNER OF LALIQUE JEWELRY, FRANCE. This time, Quentin Obadia was in from Paris to introduce “La Divine” fine jewelry collection, created in tribute to company founder René Lalique’s historic collaboration with actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Of course, the devoted jewelry lover that I am, I jumped at the chance to stop by the Madison Avenue boutique on a recent morning.

And, as expected, I was not the least bit disappointed in the thoughtfully crafted collection.

“Sarah Bernhardt used to be a very close friend of Lalique, and she was a muse,” Obadia told me.

And, he added, Lalique, whose daring Art Nouveau designs

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and groundbreaking combinations of materials had made him a standout of his time, would create theatrical and personal jewelry for Bernhardt, herself a theatrical groundbreaker nicknamed “The Divine Sarah.”

“She realized jewelry could help a woman express her character,” Obadia said.

And to create the contemporary collection, Obadia shared, it took a combination of many things, including visits with The Paris Opera and, as always, through Lalique’s own archives.

Obadia, now four years into his tenure with Lalique, says that as he has become more and more familiar with Lalique’s approach, he has become “less literal” in his inspirations.

But it’s never a cocky approach, he assured. “I respect the way he was working.”

And that, he continued, was to create a singular style at a

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time when many women simply wore a large stone hung from the neck.

“He was mixing precious and nonprecious materials together,” Obadia said, to dramatic effect. “La Divine” collection is filled with such echoes, from blue chalcedony to carved onyx to engraved pearls decorating elaborate necklaces, intricate pins and earrings and statement rings.

As Obadia talked me through case after case, he described the pieces and their motifs, noting the connections to the Bernhardt story. I saw earrings and necklaces dotted with lily of the valley, a Lalique signature, and here a nod to Bernhardt’s early life in a convent; the crown theme of the Lys pieces, a tribute to Bernhardt’s role in “The Princess Far-Away;” the vibrant colors of the parrot in Perroquet jewelry, which recognize Bernhardt’s love of exotic animals; and Vesta, which draws a parallel between Bernhardt, whose story continues to inspire, and the goddess symbolized by a sacred fire.

Throughout, Obadia said, the goal was clear.

“I’m trying to do jewelry that is wearable,” he said, though it does have that dramatic touch. Jewelry is for “different moments.”

It’s ideal, he added with a laugh, “If you want to get onstage during the day.”

And I know exactly what he meant.

At one point, which will long remain a memory, I leaned toward a case for a closer look at the Adrienne necklace, an elegant study in white gold, carved onyx and diamonds.

It is named, Obadia had told me, in honor of Adrienne Lecouvreur, an 18th-century actress who died a mysterious death. Her story, first interpreted by Bernhardt, would inspire a play, opera and several films.

The necklace’s details — the tiniest diamonds on the filigreed scallop-shaped links — were just breathtaking.

As I commented such to Obadia, he immediately asked if I’d like to try it on.

Um, OK… He drew it out of the case and placed it around my neck, and as I neared the mirror, I felt myself stepping onto a stage of sorts, a virtual link to another world, another time.

With a knowing smile, Obadia uttered a single word: “Voilà.”

Indeed.

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Rebel without a pause THE STUDIED STYLE OF JAMES DEAN

James Dean with dogs on Winslow farm in Fairmount, Ind. ©2015 Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos.

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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IXTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH — SEPT. 30 TO BE EXACT — JAMES DEAN WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH ON HIS WAY TO RACE HIS PORSCHE 550 SPYDER, SPEEDING INTO IMMORTALITY.

Like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando — the other two members of the not-soholy trinity of ’50s rebellion — Dean helped usher in a new kind of men’s style and, thus, a new kind

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of man. Oh, sure, they could don a tux and clean up real good when they had to. But gone for the most part were the suits and ties and in their stead was the wardrobe of resistance — bomber and motorcycle jackets, windbreakers and Ts, jeans and khakis, boots and attitude.

Such nonconformity is not without its conformity just as casualness requires a great deal of study.

But cool is not the absence of effort. It’s the ability to

make effort seem effortless — what the Renaissance Italians called sprezzatura.

Dean, by all accounts, cared passionately — about motorcycles and car racing, acting and even what people thought of him.

“Jimmy was so adoring (of Brando) that he seemed shrunken and twisted in misery,” observed Elia Kazan, who directed Dean in his smash screen debut (“East of Eden”) and Brando to his first Oscar (for “On the Waterfront”).

Onscreen in only three roles — his theater and TV career in Manhattan was more varied — Dean expressed the same youthful, angst-ridden yearning to reach out and connect.

But in front of a still camera, he was the epitome of cool, beckoning us to reach out to him. This was never truer than in the Dennis Stock photographs that are the subject of a new Thames & Hudson book ($45, 144 pages, 125 black-and-white photographs) due out in October. Stock, a member of Magnum Photos, was slightly older than the 24-year-old Dean when he got an assignment from Life magazine in 1955 to photograph the rising star. (That experience is the subject of “Life,” a film starring Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean that will have its American release this fall.)

Stock captured Dean “American Gothic”-style down on his family’s Indiana farm, on the set in Hollywood and, perhaps most memorably, wandering the concrete canyons of Manhattan alone, hands thrust deeply into his pockets, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, his blond pompadour tousled.

Sometimes, his coat collar was turned up against the inclement indifference of the city, as in one iconic photograph. Sometimes, the coat was parted like a curtain to reveal a Beat staple, the turtleneck. Sometimes, it was the shifting, glass-framed eyes and stubble that got your attention. Whatever it was, it was magic.

Until that moment when Dean’s Porsche, with mechanic Rolf Würtherich in the passenger’s seat, collided with Donald Turnupseed’s Ford Tudor at the intersection of California Routes 466 (now State Route 46) and 41.

“That guy’s gotta see us,” was among the last words Dean spoke before the crash that killed him instantly.

Turnupseed apparently never did.

Thanks in part to Stock’s photos, we still do.

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From bags to riches STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY COLLEEN WILSON

THE DUFFEL HAD BEEN DONE A MILLION TIMES OVER. But when Lisa McCullagh designed the canvas duffel bag that would become the cornerstone of her new business, Scarborough & Tweed, in 1992, she says she “kicked it up a notch.”

It was a midsize duffel that came in navy and hunter with ribbon handles that could be outfitted with any logo. But what has made it a classic, McCullagh says, were the little things — heavier canvas and fabric webbing, brass hardware and an understated client logo rather than a glaring silk screen on the bag.

“If it has the Scarborough & Tweed label in it, it has to pass certain tests of time,” she says.

And it has. Twenty-three years later, McCullagh has made her brand essential to the world of corporate gift giving and all from her Pleasantville headquarters.

My Original Duffel — it was first called — made McCullagh’s company a million-dollar business venture in less than a year.

“A lot of it was the product,” she says. “And, of course, luck, too.”

And what is arguably more impressive is that it became a company in about 10 minutes.

The Pleasantville resident had been working with a marketing and promotions company for nine years, but when she went back to work after maternity leave for her first child, she was told her

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Brooks Brothers-ish … so Scarborough & Tweed it became.”

And now McCullagh’s business has grown beyond the traditional duffel. The company offers just about any kind of gift including portable phone chargers, apparel, journals, pens and desk accessories. Scarborough & Tweed has an international clientele in just about every industry, she says, adding that the company now has an office in the U.K. in addition to the four buildings they use in Westchester County.

But what has truly defined her success, McCullagh says, is that Scarborough & Tweed is a philanthropic company, too.

“It’s a new approach to how we’re going to run our business,” she says.

McCullagh, who has long supported a variety of nonprofits including Girls Incorporated of Westchester, told WAG that the company is announcing a new philanthropic effort this month.

In partnership with World Food Program, Scarborough & Tweed will donate a meal to a person in need for every bag the company sells.

“It’s been a personal goal of mine for so many years to be able to do this,” she says about giving back through her company. “It’s one other thing that shows us as we’re here for the long term. We’re here to help.”

For more, visit scarboroughtweedgifts.com.

Lisa McCullagh, owner and founder of Scarborough & Tweed, in her Pleasantville office.

job would be changed.

“That was really disappointing to me because I love my clients. I really was in a position of, ‘Do I stay or do I not?’ I have zero money in the bank and I was basically really worried about what my next step was.”

McCullagh decided to leave and shortly after making that decision received a phone call from a client who was asking what she was going to do next.

“I told him about what my thought was about starting this (gift) business … and he says, ‘You have 10 minutes to come up with your company name, because I’ll give you your first order.’”

Grabbing an atlas on a nearby desk — “This is very scientific,” she quips — McCullagh opened to the England page. The English town Scarborough caught her eye and nearby north of that is the river Tweed.

“I just thought it sounded kind of established and

Dior between the covers

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

Cashmere Bar coat in rouge Dior, Fall/Winter 2012 haute couture collection. Š Laziz Hamani.

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FRANCE, 1946 — THE COUNTRY REELS FROM THE INFAMY OF NAZI CONQUEST AND COLLABORATION. But just as there has been a strong pocket of Resistance to tyranny, there is a new movement to rehabilitate l’homme Français and la femme Française.

Enter Christian Dior, the subject of Assouline’s excellent new “Dior” — text by Farid Chenoune and photography by Laziz Hamani — which places the founder of the House of Dior and his five successors in the context of their times.

It was in 1946 in a small Second Empire-style hotel that had been built by Count Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon’s natural son, that Dior established his house, with his first haute couture collection appearing the following year. Gone, Chenoune writes, was the mannish silhouette — the square shoulders and short skirts — of the war years. In its stead was a return

to feminine curves. And women reveled in it the way you savor spring after a harsh winter.

“They yearned to be like the ‘flower women’ who paraded in the enchanted world that was the Dior salon, with their tiny waists, high busts, delicately sloping shoulders and exaggerated hips,” Chenoune writes, “to have voluptuous curves once more and a cinched-in waist; to feel the swooningly, bewitchingly feminine movement, the elegant swirl, whirl, flounce and flair of these entrancing gowns with their layers of petticoats and yards of fabric, swooping down to flirt (within a mere foot or less of the Parisian sidewalk) with the hemline of desire.”

The English writer Nancy Mitford, living in Paris, wrote excitedly to her sister Diana Mosley, dubbing Dior creations — always accompanied by carefully thought-out accessories and, ultimately, fragrances like Poison and J’Adore — “Anna Karenina clothes.”

Carmel Snow, then editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, gave them a collective name — the “New Look.”

The Dior silhouette would be shaped and reshaped in the years following Dior’s death in 1957 while on holiday in Italy. Yves Saint Laurent, the uneasy heir apparent, would flatten, straighten and raise it with modern takes on Empire and flapper styles.

Marc Bohan’s long tenure was more about reserved

craftsmanship than memorable creations, although one does tend to think of the demure red wool day dress with big side buttons that Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her 1962 televised tour of the White House.

Gianfranco Ferré created a luxe, razor-sharp look that appealed to Ivana Trump and Princess Diana alike.

And then came John Galliano, he of the corseted, ripped, rippling bondage couture — and more. Galliano gave the Dior silhouette a sexy edginess. The book includes a small photograph of the gown he created for Nicole Kidman’s 1997 Oscar appearance — a chartreuse satin affair with chinoiserie embroidery and thigh-high slits, a total knockout. It’s the kind of dress that has led fashion insiders to speak of Galliano’s genius in hushed tones even as they shake their heads at his behavior.

In 2011, he was dismissed from Dior following his arrest in Paris for drunken, anti-Semitic rants — something the book does not discuss. A year later, he was succeeded by Raf Simons, who, in a sense, has brought the House of Dior full circle. The Simons section includes a photograph of Jennifer Lawrence after receiving her Oscar (for “Silver Linings Playbook”) in his strapless blush fit-and-flare ball gown.

No doubt Dior himself would be pleased.

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Stables at the Academy of Spectacle Equestre, Manège de la Grande Ecurie du Château de Versailles, France.

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Clothes Horse

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

The equestrian season comes to a close in WAG country this month with the American Gold Cup at Old Salem Farm in North Salem and the East Coast Open at Greenwich Polo Club. But you can warm yourself all winter long with the images of jodhpurs and mint juleps, frilly dresses and fascinators contained in the latest offer-

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ing from teNeues Publishing’s “The Stylish Life” series — “Equestrian” (Sept. 15, $55, 176 pages).

As with the “Tennis” and “Yachting” books in this series, there’s plenty to charm your inner fashionista or paparazzo. One page alone contains a trifecta of equine-loving goddesses — Grace Kelly, properly attired in jodhpurs, knee-

high boots, jacket and scarf, seated side-saddle in Central Park; an informal Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in T-shirt and jeans, riding with tweens Caroline and John Kennedy; and a postwar Elizabeth Taylor in fitted blue pants and jacket mounting a chestnut steed.

The icons of yesteryear give way to the secondand third-generation celebrities who are accomplished equestrians in their own right, including Athina Onassis, granddaughter of Aristotle, and Georgina Bloomberg (May 2012 WAG), younger daughter of Michael, who is a frequent Gold Cup participant.

One page juxtaposes images of 2014 Gold Cup winner Jessica Springsteen and Charlotte Casiraghi, who look strikingly like their respective mothers — Patti Scialfa and Caroline, Princess of Hanover and Monaco, elder daughter of Princess Grace.

Juxtapositions are a great strength of “The Stylish Life” series. A particularly fetching page pictures model Jean Shrimpton at the 1963 Spring

Racing Carnival in a classic sleeveless sheath accented by a centered floral pin, a trim handbag and spectators. Opposite is an image taken a half-century later of actress and Greenwich native Olivia Palermo at the 10th anniversary of Cartier International Dubai Polo. Yet she looks just as effortlessly chic in a sleeveless white top and loose black polka-dotted slacks. (Palermo is no stranger to polo, having attended the 2013 Sentebale Royale Salute Polo Cup at Greenwich Polo Club that featured Prince Harry and Nacho Figueras.)

One fashion statement sure to amuse is the fascinator, which looks like a bird expired on some lady’s head. The fascinators depicted in “The Stylish Life” range from bodacious bows to fuchsia spheres. But perhaps none has the charm of the Cartier visor sported by a polo pony.

Indeed, if there is any overriding theme of this book, it is the centrality of the horse. The best two-legged athletes in the world are nothing without their four-legged teammates, and the photos of that partnership are particularly

astounding. There is the balletic grace of Vumpaci VD Zuuthoeve — forelegs curving downward, hind legs contracted upward — clearing an obstacle with Italian rider Eleonora Zorzetto beneath the glass dome of Paris’ Grand Palais during the International Jumping Competition “Les Talents Hermès” in 2010. There’s the fleet power of Islefaxyou — muscles taut and sleek with sweat — as he strains for the finish at a 1996 Belmont Park race with John Velazquez aboard. There’s the complex choreography of the polo match, alternately intricate and explosive.

But then there’s the noble humility of these beautiful animals — their luxurious manes and tails sometimes knotted or plaited — waiting patiently to serve. For 5,000 years, Vicky Moon’s essay notes, the horse has served us majestically in warfare, agriculture, transportation, entertainment, therapy and companionship.

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STRETCHY CURVY AND A TOUCH OF LEATHER

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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FASHION DESIGNER DAVID KOMA MAY BE BASED IN LONDON, BUT HE HAS PLENTY OF FANS ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND, INCLUDING MARY JANE DENZER, WHOSE EPONYMOUS WHITE PLAINS STORE NEAR THE RITZ-CARLTON, WESTCHESTER CARRIES HIS DESIGNS. “I love the clean, sleek lines of his collection,” she says of the ultra-body contouring silhouette created by his sculptural statement dresses. “He knows how to shape clothes to a woman’s body.

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angular, often within the same dress.

“I just love to play with the balance of contrast,” he writes in an email interview, “whether it’s a mixture of unusual textures, colors or playing with soft and sharp.”

Those contrasts are apparent in his Autumn/ Winter 2015 Collection, where his trademark angles meet and marry cyclical cutouts, knitwear, macramé lace and ruffles in a salute to the 1960s and ’70s. Necklines are high, but then, so are the hemlines in a series of black buckled wool dresses, while orange, indigo and beige play homage to the likes of Pierre Cardin, he of the Space Age designs.

Equally out of this world are the space cadet-style sandals that along with stilettos are the first fruits of Koma’s collaboration with Malone Souliers. Also a first for Koma — a resort-wear collection that builds on the ’60s theme of A/W 2015. Look for nods to Rudi Gernreich’s monokini cutouts and mosaic swimming pools in separates, short shifts, dresses and cropped jackets that use a spare palette of off-white, black, beige, gray and sky blue and fabrics ranging from leather and jersey to crepe and silk.

Koma was born in Georgia — the Eurasian country, not the American state — and studied art in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Selections from David Koma’s Resort Wear collection. Model: Lauren de Graaf; Stylist: Elodie David Touboul; Hair: Karin Bigler; Casting: Piergiorgio Del Moro.

Photographs by Ward Ivan Rafik.

All images courtesy David Koma.

“I am still very keen on art. When I have some spare time, I usually go to exhibitions or art fairs, trying to see as much as I can,” he says.

“It doesn’t necessarily influence my designs directly, but sometimes it might be helpful to look back and recall a certain artist. …I also do some oil painting myself, but not that often anymore,” adds Koma, who counts travel, music and vintage clothes as other inspirations and family, friends and TV as relaxations.

Not long after debuting his first collection at the ripe-old age of 15, he headed to London to study at Central Saint Martins, one of the leading art and design schools, where he earned a

bachelor’s degree in fashion design and a master’s with distinction in 2009. That same year, he launched his label, which presents two women’s wear collections a year during London Fashion Week.

In 2013, Koma became creative director of Mugler, the fashion house begun by Thierry Mugler, which requires working with a different team in a different country with a different approach from start to finish, Koma says. The Thierry Mugler woman, who Koma has been credited with reinventing, is also different from the David Koma woman.

“I think both women have much in common.

They are beautiful, strong, successful. The Mugler woman is more mature and ‘tailored.’ The DK woman is a bit younger and more playful, experimental with her style.”

Recently, there has been criticism in the press — namely by Vanessa Friedman, fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times — regarding a return to using very young models.

But Koma says, “When we cast models for the show, it’s not about their age, color of the skin or anything else. It’s more about a certain spirit, attitude, experience that we want to communicate to the audience.”

For more, visit davidkoma.com.

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FIGURE Ralph Pucci at his company’s Manhattan headquarters.

RALPH PUCCI’S VISION ELEVATES MANNEQUIN TO ART

BY MARY SHUSTACK PHOTOGRAPHS

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THE MOST FREQUENT VISITOR TO “RALPH PUCCI: THE ART OF THE MANNEQUIN” JUST MIGHT BE RALPH PUCCI HIMSELF.

“I go about once a week,” the Greenwich resident says with a smile.

And who can blame him?

The vibrant exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan — a career retrospective of the man whose work transformed a vital, if often overlooked, element of the fashion industry — has proven so popular it was extended two additional months.

The museum show is eye-catching, to say the least. While it’s attracted the expected fashionistas, its centerpiece — a gathering of dozens of Pucci mannequins set on a runway of sorts — has resonated with a variety of visitors.

“The greatest feeling is (seeing) the people not affiliated with the field getting off the elevator and just smiling,” Pucci says.

In a career filled with groundbreaking, award-winning work, the exhibition continuing through Oct. 25 is proving a special moment for Pucci.

“This is the first museum show we’ve ever had,” he says. “Obviously, we’re very proud of it. To get a New York City museum interested … incredible.”

Pucci is sitting down with WAG on a recent summer morning, having welcomed us to the West 18th Street headquarters of Ralph Pucci International.

Surrounded by ultra-chic vignettes filled with statement-making furniture, lighting and the most exquisite Murano glass, the space is not only about mannequins, but also the decidedly artistic furniture and interior-design arm of the company. “Everything shown at Pucci is exclusively with me,” he says of the furniture, lighting, floor coverings and art.

This showroom, which anchors others in Miami and West Hollywood, Calif., is where Pucci discusses the mannequins — a creative crossing between the worlds of commerce, fashion and design — now taking center stage.

A CAREER IS BORN Pucci, who spent nearly two decades in Bedford raising three nowgrown children with his wife — one of their sons is part of the business today — also traces his earliest days back to Westchester County, first in Mount Vernon and then primarily in New Rochelle.

Though he often pitched in to help with his parents’ mannequin-repair business, it was not his career plan.

“I studied journalism at Northeastern University, but I’ve always been interested in the arts,” he says. “When you have an open mind, it goes from one creative field to another.”

Soon after graduation, Pucci would join the family firm, making suggestions that were welcomed by his parents. First up was making their own mannequins.

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“When you have a repair company, you have all the positions,” he says of the smooth transition. Pucci, though, knew that to succeed they would have to be distinctive.

Then, back in the late 1970s, he says, “The industry was flooded with beautiful, ladylike mannequins. We went in a different way.”

His more sculptural works were welcomed.

“The great thing about the visual industry is they’re very open-armed about new ideas,” he says.

Pucci, always with an eye on what was happening in the world, was affected by the 1976 Summer Olympics and the growing fitness craze and introduced the action mannequin, his earliest success. Its sense of movement and bold hues were revolutionary, catching the attention of major retailers.

Soon, there would be bike-riding mannequins at Marshall Field in Chicago and other effective campaigns.

“When Macy’s San Francisco bought 30 mannequins, 40 mannequins and used them on their ledges. … People are walking off the street to just come in and look at these mannequins.”

Work with national department stores would continue to build the Pucci name, leading to a pivotal moment in 1986.

Pucci was tapped by Barneys New York to work with French interior designer Andrée Putman to create the mannequins for its new downtown store. The job, Pucci says, validated that “we had been doing interesting things.”

And the collaboration, resulting in the bold, Deco-inspired mannequin that became known as The Olympian Goddess, sent ripples throughout the industry.

“It just exuded a whole different feeling,” Pucci says. “That was all Andrée, but we were there to execute it.”

It would spark decades of collaborations with those in fashion, art and design that continue to today. Over the years, the Pucci mannequin has come to reflect trends in art and music, fashion and form, ideals of beauty and more.

There would be a nod to Marilyn Monroe (1988’s The Mistress); fashion artist Ruben Toledo’s Birdland of the same year, a fluid piece originally designed to showcase jewelry; Ada, a 1994 work with children’s illustrator and author Maira Kalman (a collaboration inspired by Pucci’s reading her books to his children); and Nile, the 1995 work with artist/designer/architect Patrick Naggar that’s part mannequin, part ancient vase. Pucci has also worked with fashion and art luminaries from Veruschka to Anna Sui, Kenny Scharf to Christy Turlington and, in 2013, Diane von Furstenberg, to create the mannequins used in celebrating the 40th anniversary of her iconic wrap dress.

The mannequins also have worked in an educational setting, as the basis for “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci,” an exhibition of designs in paper by students at Pratt Institute’s School of Art and Design presented a few years ago.

In addition, Pucci’s early work with Putman fueled his diversification,

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MAD Biennial in 2014, which spotlighted dozens of “NYC Makers,” including Pucci. His sleek red action mannequins were more than memorable — and eye-opening for the MAD staff itself.

The team ended up going to the Pucci headquarters, says Gifford, who vividly remembers her first impressions.

“There he was, this very elegant man in this sea of naked mannequins,” she says with a laugh. “It was kind of a funny picture.”

But soon enough, she adds, she “discovered this wealth, really, of an artistic kind of information and history that would really be appropriate for this museum.”

The story fit MAD’s mission, she says.

“What we were really interested in, of course, was the sculpting process and the ‘making process,’” she says.

“Also, we were interested in the design behind it and all the artistic personalities.”

Throughout, she says, something became clear: “It sort of charts this history of American culture.”

As Pucci shared his history, she saw something more universal.

“We started talking about each individual mannequin and these stories were just so rich, and I realized this is a treasure of our American culture.”

It also serves, she says, as a testament to the mannequin’s most basic role.

“Ultimately, you’re trying to relate to people in retail,” she says. “Ultimately, you’re trying to present fashion.”

STUDIO WORK Nile, the unique form resulting from Pucci’s 1995 collaboration with Patrick Naggar.

sparking further collaborations with her in design and helping launch his furniture division that has included work with such legendary figures as Vicente Wolfe, Vladimir Kagan and Jens Risom.

MAD PERSPECTIVE The mannequin has been a constant in the Pucci world.

Barbara Paris Gifford, curatorial assistant at the Museum of Arts and Design who organized the show with MAD’s chief curator Lowery Stokes Sims, says the mannequin itself connects with people in a very basic way.

“They’re human proxies, so there’s an inherent fascination with them.”

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As Pucci leads us into the sculpture studio at the Pucci headquarters, there is almost a sense of déjà vu since the MAD exhibition partly recreates this airy space.

Master sculptor and longtime collaborator Michael Evert, who’s on hand this morning, is also in residence throughout the exhibition, giving visitors a weekly look at how a mannequin goes from sketch to clay model through final fiberglass creation, a process all completed in-house at Pucci.

Crowds are known to gather at MAD for the Thursday evenings of Evert’s live sculpting, which have included sittings by the likes of Mary McFadden, Sui, Kagan and Margaret Russell, the Architectural Digest editor-in-chief, a longtime Pucci friend who wrote the foreword to the exhibition publication.

As she writes in that piece, “Part businessman, part impresario, and all creative visionary, Ralph plays a singular leading role in the world of design.”

And, Russell later adds, “Clearly, Ralph is a brilliant

businessman, driving hard bargains and monetizing opportunities that his competitors might have dismissed. But his world is as much about promoting creativity as it is about managing his profit margin. No one else mixes commerce, culture and community quite like he does. Where else but at a Ralph Pucci showroom will you see a product launch accompanied by a theatrical modern dance troupe or amid a display of edgy fashions by young designers that Ralph is excited about?”

STRUTTING AHEAD Pucci’s vision has never wavered, which has made his work remain so important, MAD’s Gifford adds.

“I’m not sure he exactly realized how culturally rich these objects were. These are art objects.”

And they also speak to a specific artistic tradition and integrity.

“It’s important to realize, too, that all mannequins are not made like this anymore,” Gifford says. “This is a very Old World way of doing mannequins.”

Again, she says, it’s due to Pucci’s savvy take on culture and business, branching out into furniture, art and home design.

“Having that diversity has allowed him to not compromise on the other side of this business.”

That, Pucci agrees, holds no interest for him.

“I do not work with the mass retailers that need 5,000 mannequins for two, three hundred dollars,” he says.

Today, he says, there is a need “to find something different. There’s a lot of sameness out there.”

His is a world of constant exploration, from catching some jazz, gallery shows or theater in the city to jaunts to DIA:Beacon, a favorite regional destination.

“I try to see as much as possible,” Pucci says.

“Whenever I travel, the first thing I do is go to the museum or galleries.”

As it has for decades, what Pucci experiences himself is translated into innovative mannequins that are launched into the fashion world with the artistic fanfare they deserve.

Pucci wouldn’t have it any other way.

“People come to Pucci to expect the unexpected.”

“Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin” continues through Oct. 25 at the Museum of Arts and Design, at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan. For more, visit madmuseum.org or ralphpucci.net.

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MAKING ROOM FOR STYLE WAG had the chance to spend some time with the namesakes behind the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams furniture and home accessories firm at their Signature Store in Greenwich on a memorable afternoon last year. We’ve been following their designs ever since and were quite impressed with the sleekly stylish options for fall. These vignettes, which clearly show off Gold and Williams’ affinity for modern design, draw specifically on 1970s modern as a muse. The Fall 2015 Collection balances updated design elements with clean, classic silhouettes to offer a look that’s not only sleek but comfortable, another Gold + Williams signature. From top, laid-back luxury at its best, featuring clean-lined classics like the new Presley chair with distinctive oval metal tubing ($3,660, as shown); cool comfort meets a luxurious material mix, from the stunning glass Moira pendant to the café-colored Italian marble of the Gramercy Square Cocktail Table ($1,995); and setting the serene scene, a nesting cocktail table, while nesting side tables flank the sofa, always ready for when company comes. (Astor Nesting Cocktail Table, $1,995).

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Photographs courtesy Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.

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BEST FOOT FORWARD

SADDLE UP!

There’s no question of a fashion misstep when it comes to the designs of Stuart Weitzman. The onetime WAG cover subject – he graced our October 2013 issue – is a strong presence in Fairfield County, where he just happens to have a hometown boutique in Greenwich. The company’s fall/winter collection has us already looking forward to those crisp days to come when we want nothing more than to strut about in our boots. Among the choices are, clockwise from top, the Discoboot in Black Fianco Croco ($555); the Parka in Topo Suede ($675); and the Mane in Nero Sport Calf ($698). The selection’s dreamy. Don’t you agree?

Fall’s “It” silhouette for purses just might be the saddle bag. It’s not overwhelming but it’s big enough for the essentials. Neiman Marcus Westchester gives it the nod in its fall trend forecast with a catchy tag: “Single-shoulder or crossbody, a ’70s favorite rides again.” Options include, from top, the Cynnie Suede/Leather Messenger Bag in Black/Coco ($595) from Elizabeth and James; the Chloe Drew Small Shoulder Bag in Wine ($1,850) or Hudson Mini Charm Shoulder Bag in Black ($2,250); and the PS1 Medium Fringe Satchel Bag in Oxblood ($1,795) by Proenza Schouler. Grab one – or several – to complete any ensemble, day or night.

For more, visit stuartweitzman.com.

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For more, visit neimanmarcus.com.

Photographs courtesy Neiman Marcus.

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The most-admired home, a rarity on the market, is now offered by only the second owner in its storied history.

The 1919 Tudor Revival, designed by renowned architect William Bates for one of Bronxville’s pioneers William Frederick

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light and bright setting that virtually brings the outside in.

The home’s interior exemplifies architect Bates’ enthusiasm for designing spaces ideal for entertaining. All were created with the thought to provide ample light throughout, with grouped windows in varying sizes creating the ideal environment for gatherings. Spaces flow from room to room and seemingly right into the outdoors.

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ONE OF THE MANY JOYS OF TRAVELING IS SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES AND BRINGING THEM BACK FROM AFAR. In exotic

fabrics, in unfamiliar designs, in rich or faded hues, clothes tell a story as much as any selfie or tchotchke. They’re also practical. And provided they’re looked after, and acquiring their own patina of age, the better ones can last a lifetime.

True, you have to like shopping in the first place, but I plead guilty on that score. And while I’m not great with the big names — the old chestnut, shouldn’t Mr. Hilfiger pay me to advertise his wares on my chest, rather than vice versa, applies — I’m a pushover for the souk or local bottega.

Take shopping in TULUM, for instance, the idyllic Mexican resort on the Yucatan peninsula, which seems to have style built into its DNA. At the American-owned boutique, Josa Tulum (josatulum.com), the one-size fits all, jungle-print dresses are instinctively right for the place, and they won’t cost you an arm and a leg either. Across the street at Mr. Blackbird’s jewelry shop (mr-blackbird.com), with its sandy floor and random pieces of driftwood for display, you’ll find the jewelry to match the dress — obsidian, lapis, amethyst and quartz — all of it a steal. Hacienda Montaecristo, right by, fills in, with the irresistible robozo scarves and leather bags. (haciendamontaecristo.com).

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Édith Mézard linens. Photograph by Morgan Palun.

There’s lots of things you might want to take on vacation to IBIZA, the hippy-dippy Balearic island, which gives laid-back a whole new meaning, but clothes should not be among them. To take them — or too many — would be to miss out on Bagus, with its dazzling, Inca—inspired Pitusa kaftans, its beaded bags and its sexy, strappy sandals. Happy wife, happy life — and meanwhile I’m happy as a sand boy at Ibiza Republic, with its pastel shirts and shorts, all in the softest pure cotton. Incidentally, if Ibiza isn’t on your travel itinerary any time soon, the great Ibiza swimwear brand, Syd & Rex, Spain’s answer to Vilebrequin, with its totally delicious — and addictive — designs, is now shoppable online. Check out sydandrex. com. Benedict Cumberbatch is a fan.

Over in INDIA, a recent discovery for me, although by no means new, is Fabindia (fabindia.com). Founded in 1960 by a certain John Bissell, who was then working for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, this terrific clothing company now has 170 stores across India, as well as a handful of international outlets. But I feel its spiritual heart is in Delhi, where you can shop its Khan Market store for men’s shirts with zingy chevrons and ogees, blinding white Indian pants, silk cotton kurtas

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(tunics), salwars (wide pants) and the loveliest, most delicate shawls. There’s also something appealing about the fact that founder Bissell was born in Hartford and the company, Indian to its core, was first incorporated in Canton, Conn.

Colorful though they are, I’m usually wary of outdoor clothes markets, where you can’t try before you buy. What looks fabulous hanging on the rack for a handful of euros in FLORENCE’S Piazza Ciompi market or glinting in the Mediterranean sun in MARBELLA’S rastro, or in the neon-lit night market of HONG KONG, looks less fabulous after you’ve schlepped it back across the Atlantic only to find that it will fit only an elephant or a stick insect — and the stitching unravels before your eyes. One exception, though, is the terrific Gambetta Market in CANNES, just off the ritzy rue d’Antibes, where an Italian straw hat and a vermillion-red, hand-knitted dog coat (for my dog, you understand) have been two of my recent finds. Still in southern France, Edith Mézard’s linens from her gorgeous shop in Lumières are not something you’ll want to miss, if you find yourself remotely near PROVENCE. (edithmezard.fr).

You know the old joke — breakfast in Hong Kong, dinner in Paris, luggage in Brisbane. It has many versions. A lifetime of lost luggage has taught me it’s not really a laughing matter. Arriving in tropical BANGKOK from wintry Boston in only the clothes I traveled in — plus a heavy cashmere overcoat — I was able to buy a complete new wardrobe in 30 minutes flat, in the incredible MBK covered market and get change from $100 — seersucker suit included. Landing in LONDON for a conference, minus suitcase, without so much as a pair of socks, a trip to Primark, the fashionable, homegrown discount clothing store on Oxford Street, had me kitted out in a new three-piece suit for under £60, or $90 (primark.co.uk).

At the grand Volpe Ball in VENICE some years ago, my friend, the novelist Tania Kindersley, met Carla Bruni, aka Mme. Nicolas Sarkozy of France, on the grand staircase. Carla, in floor-length Valentino, turned to Tania and said, “Fabulous dress. Whose is it?” My friend thought for a split second before answering, truthfully, “Wallis, £19.99, last year’s.” Wallis is a mass-market, UK chain store (wallis.co.uk).

Often it’s not about what you wear, but how you wear it. Wasn’t that what Rod Stewart once sang?

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CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL 575 White Plains Road, Trumbull, Conn. 06611 203-261-6230 • kingsmen.org Top administrator: Brian Modarelli, head of school Fall open-house dates: K-12, Saturday Nov. 14, 2 p.m.

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART 1177 King St., Greenwich, Conn. 06831 203-531-6500 • cshgreenwich.org Top administrator: Pamela Juan Hayes, head of school Fall open-house dates: Wednesday Oct. 7, 9 a.m. to noon; Wednesday Nov. 4, 9 a.m. to noon; Wednesday Dec. 9, 9 a.m. to noon; and Wednesday Jan. 13, 9 a.m. to noon

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FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, N.Y. 10548 718-367-7500 • fordhamprep.com Top administrator: Christopher Devron, president Fall open-house dates: Sunday Nov. 1, 1 to 4 p.m.

GREENWICH ACADEMY 200 N. Maple Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 06830 203-625-8900 • greenwichacademy.org Top administrator: Molly H. King, head of school Fall open-house dates: Sunday Oct. 18, 3:30 to 5 p.m.

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GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 401 Old Church Road Greenwich, Conn. 06830 203-863-5600 • gcds.net Top administrator: Adam C. Rohdie, headmaster Fall open-house dates: Tuesday Oct. 20, 7 p.m.

THE GUNNERY 22 Kirby Road, Washington, Conn. 06793 860-868-7334 • gunnery.org Top administrator: Peter W. E. Becker, head of school Fall open-house dates: Saturday Oct. 10; time to be announced HACKLEY SCHOOL 293 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591 914-366-2600 • hackleyschool.org Top administrator: Walter Johnson, headmaster Fall open-house dates: Saturday Oct. 24, 9 a.m. to noon for upper and middle schools, 9:30 a.m. to noon for lower school

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THE HARVEY SCHOOL 260 Jay St., Katonah, N.Y. 10536 914-232-3161 • harveyschool.org Top administrator: Barry Fenstermacher Fall open-house dates: Saturday Oct. 17, 9 a.m.

IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL 173 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-633-7744 255 Wilmot Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-632-0714 ionaprep.com Top administrator: Thomas R. Leto, president Fall open-house dates: lower school – Saturday Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; upper school – Saturday Oct. 24, noon to 3 p.m.

RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Cedar St., Rye, N.Y. 10580 914-967-1417 • ryecountryday.org Top administrator: Scott A. Nelson, headmaster Fall open-house dates: lower/middle school – Sunday Oct. 18, 1 p.m.; upper school – Sunday Oct. 25, 1 p.m.

OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL 22 Spacekenkill Road Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603 845-462-4200 • oakwoodfriends.org Top administrator: Chad Cianfrani, head of school Fall open-house dates: Wednesday Sept. 30, 9:30 a.m.

SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL OF WESTCHESTER 30 Dellwood Road, White Plains, N.Y. 10605 914-948-3111 555 W. Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530 914-948-8333 schechterwestchester.org Top administrator: Michael Kay, head of school Fall open-house dates: high school – Sunday Nov. 1, 9:30 a.m. to noon; kindergarten – Sunday Nov. 8, 10 a.m.; middle school – Sunday Dec. 6, 9:30 a.m. to noon

RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY 223 W. Mountain Road Ridgefield, Conn. 06877 203-894-1800 • ridgefieldacademy.org Top administrator: James P. Heus, head of school Fall open-house dates: Saturday Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to noon

SOUNDVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL 370 Underhill Ave. Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598 914-302-2763 • soundviewprep.org Top administrator: Glyn Hearn, head of school Fall open-house dates: Sunday Oct. 4, 1 to 3 p.m.; Thursday Oct. 15, 9 to 11 a.m., drop by –Tuesday Nov. 11, 9 to 11 a.m.; Sunday Nov. 15, 1 to 3 p.m.

THE STORM KING SCHOOL 314 Mountain Road Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. 12520 845-534-7892 • sks.org Top administrator: Jonathan Lamb, head of school Fall open-house dates: information session dates – Saturday Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to noon; Saturday Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to noon THE URSULINE SCHOOL 1354 North Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-636-3950 • ursulinenewrochelle.com Top administrator: Eileen Davidson Fall open-house dates: Saturday Oct. 31, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

THORNTON-DONOVAN SCHOOL 100 Overlook Circle, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-632-8836 • td.edu Top administrator: Douglas E. Fleming, headmaster Fall open-house dates: to be determined WOOSTER SCHOOL 91 Miry Brook Road, Danbury, Conn. 06810 203-830-3900 • woosterschool.org Top administrator: Matt Byrnes, head of school Fall open-house date: Saturday Oct. 24, 9 a.m.

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MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL 5142 Route 22 Amenia, N.Y. 12501 845-373-8191 • maplebrookschool.org Top administrator: Donna Konkolics, head of school Fall open-house dates: Friday Nov. 13, 9 to 11 a.m. on campus; Sunday Nov. 22, 2 to 4 p.m., Yale Club in New York City

THE MASTERS SCHOOL 49 Clinton Ave., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 10522 914-479-6400 • mastersny.org Top administrator: Laura Danforth, head of school Fall open-house dates: grades 5-8 – Saturday Oct. 3, noon; grades 9-12 – Saturday Oct. 24, noon

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PRINCE WILLIAM HAS PRINCE HARRY, SNOOPY HAS SPIKE – YOU KNOW, THE BAD-BOY BABY BRO WHO’S A CHUNK OF CHARM AND A TON OF TROUBLE. That’s what WAG Weekly is to WAG. In our e-newsletter, we let down our hair (and occasionally, our grammar) to take you behind behind-the-scenes of the hottest parties and events, offer our thoughts on the most controversial issues of the day, share what couldn’t be contained in our glossy pages and tell you what to do and where to go this weekend – all while whetting your appetite for the next issue.

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WHEELS

Marlon Brando as “The Wild One.” Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape.” Lawrence crashing after Arabia.

Motorcycle

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A Ducati on display at Hudson Valley Motorcycles.

Few vehicles command the sleek danger and power, the romantic rebellion and freedom of the motorcycle.

A status symbol in WAG country — where a bike from Hudson Valley Motorcycles in Ossining, the only Ducati retailer in Westchester County, was recently displayed at The Westchester in White Plains — the motorcycle has a more functional purpose in Asia, where cars and gas are more expensive. (More than half of bikes can be found in Asian locales like Jakarta, where girls in too-short skirts cling to the waists of their guys as they careen around traffic circles on motorcycles and mopeds.)

The motorbike — which had its birth in the second half of the 19th century — quickly found a utilitarian calling, carrying messengers to and from the front, along with military police, during World War I. Film buffs will remember the moment at the end of “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) when one such motorcyclist whizzes by the British leader of the Arab revolt against the Turks as he heads back to England, foreshadowing his death there in 1935 after he swerved his Brough Superior SS100 to avoid two boys on bicycles near his cottage in Dorset and was thrown over the handlebars. Eighty years later, motorcycles remain dangerous, accounting for 37 times more fatalities than cars in the U.S. alone.

But danger is part of the lure. Think of Brando and his gang blowing into town in the 1953 film “The Wild One” — his rolled-up jeans and motorcycle jacket (still the uniform of the cool iconoclast) fitting like a second skin, his cap cocked just so.

“What are you rebelling against, Johnny?” a girl asks.

“Whaddaya got?’ he snarls. Swoon.

We, too, are seduced, because we, like she, intuit that Brando’s Johnny isn’t a bad boy. He’s just misunderstood, like the doomed title character in the hit 1964 song “The Leader of the Pack.”

Despite violent incidents like the biker beating of Alexian Lien after a 2013 altercation on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan, bikers have been romanticized as a vanishing breed of American originals.

They’re Steve McQueen defiant and enduring as he endlessly struggles to flee a German POW camp in “The Great Escape” (1963), which contains an iconic scene of the actor vrooming around the undulating countryside. Bikers are Peter Fonda — who played a Hells Angel in the 1966 movie “The Wild Angels” — discarding his watch, symbol of Father Time and The Man, and lighting out with Dennis Hopper in “Easy Rider” (1969), only to find tragedy waiting.

Still, we’ll never forget them, the leaders of the pack.

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Eat, shop, play STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIELLE BRODY

ABC KITCHEN, A FARM-TO-TABLE RESTAURANT IN MANHATTAN, HAS GOOD TASTE — IN EVERY SENSE OF THAT EXPRESSION. The ABC brand makes its socially and environmentally conscious mission beautiful, experiential and diverse with a carpet store and six-story home goods warehouse on Broadway and two restaurants, ABC Kitchen and ABC Cocina, on 18th and 19th streets, respectively.

Once you step though ABC Carpet & Home’s large, recessed doors, you’re transported from the bustling urban neighborhood into a bright, ethereal space as expansive as it is detail-oriented. While the store is known for its furniture, the first floor, named “inspiration,” has artful displays ranging from modern tableware to eco-friendly yoga apparel to Tibetan crafts.

In the back, a wide wooden staircase leads up to a showroom with a selection of high-end clothing and a view of ABC Kitchen patrons below.

The eatery, located on the ground floor of ABC Carpet & Home, is the epitome of a retail store’s model kitchen, decorated with an elegant touch and stocked with Michelin-awarded chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s recipes.

With a mix of vintage, contemporary and rustic elements, it’s a like a cross between a Lower East Side loft and a barn straight out of a Pinterest wedding board.

Under the soft lighting is a mix of high-top, round and communal tables — some modern and white, others wooden with stainless steel chairs. Tables are topped with delicate mismatched ceramic plates and a mini-carafe filled with fresh flowers.

A bright bounty of vegetables in the corner of the restau-

rant below the window to the kitchen looks somewhat out of place in the soft color scheme, but it does its job of ensuring us that ABC is farm-to-table and locally focused.

Although ABC Kitchen’s menu doesn’t offer farm prices, it provides an experience that is refreshingly down-to-earth.

After hearing and reading that ABC Kitchen is a popular spot, I admit I was hesitant to be so bold as to ask for a table for two on a Saturday night without a reservation. To my relief, the staff was accommodating, guiding us to the bar for our 20- to 30-minute wait, only to send someone five minutes later to seat us.

Our server was equally helpful, giving swift, definitive recommendations that didn’t disappoint. I took him up on his suggestion of the seasonal special, a cocktail made with cherries from the nearby Union Square market, Earl Grey tea, honeycomb and vodka. Shaken and poured at the table, it was sweet, sour and refreshing. A testament to our waiter’s attentiveness and to the drink, I had to stop him (politely) from taking it away until I had the last drop and ate the small cherry at the bottom.

We ordered grilled bread with a house-made ricotta, strawberry compote from the “market table” selection of seasonal appetizers. If I closed my eyes, I could imagine eating the warm, creamy, salty and sweet delight on a porch in the country after a morning trip to the farmers market.

The roast carrot and avocado salad, which was conveniently divided onto two plates before reaching our table, was one of the best showcases of farm to table. The arrangement of simple ingredients, topped with seeds, sour cream and citrus, was both “farm food” and comfort food. Somehow the chefs turned a sweet roasted carrot savory, and I loved it.

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From left, Tibetan arts, crafts and clothing and a display of Jan Burtz dishware on the “inspiration” floor, both at ABC Carpet & Home.

While we waited for entrées at our high-top table near the bar in front of the restaurant, we had close-up seats to a quasi-fashion show. Trendy diners mingling and waiting to be seated walked by, giving us food for thought about the merits of a boxy plastic shirt, red pants and a checked jumpsuit.

I turned my attention back to food with the delivery of my main course — a surprisingly generous serving of chicken fried in a tempura-like batter

on a bed of sautéed spinach, with basil and a hot butter sauce. In some bites, the heat of the sauce overwhelmed the purity of the organic meat, in others I salivated for another taste of that buttery heat on soft, crispy chicken. I have to say the dish wasn’t particularly pretty (note the lack of photos), but taste always trumps a photo op.

The house-made ricotta ravioli in a tangy tomato sauce met the claims, indeed tasting like it was made

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that day. It went well with the side of Swiss chard in a balsamic glaze.

For dessert, we enjoyed a sundae with three scoops of caramel ice cream sprinkled with candied popcorn.

The pool of chocolate sauce on the bottom hid a few tasty smothered peanuts.

Next time I’d like to try the Latin fare at ABC Cocina or see what ABC Kitchen will do with fall’s harvest.

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GRAPES AND SOUL UNDER THE CORK STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG PAULDING

O YOU EVER WONDER WHY SOME HIGH ACHIEVERS WOULD STILL BE HIGH ACHIEVERS IF THEIR CHOSEN DIRECTION WAS NO LONGER AN OPTION? How a wonderfully talented

actor like Robert Downey Jr. can perform a great lead vocal act with Sting.

How Jimmy Fallon can jump onstage at Madison Square Garden, as he did on July 22, and really sing with Bono and U2. How talents like Kevin Bacon, Bernie Williams, Michael Jordan and the late journalist Daniel Pearl could easily make a career out of their plan B. It’s not only talent but passion, inner curiosity and restlessness that drive someone to greatness.

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Argentine winemaker Aurelio Montes Jr., dining with him and tasting his wine selections. Aurelio is young, passionate about life and possesses many talents. He is a former boxer, rides off-road motorcycles, jumps from planes at great heights, with more than 300 parachute jumps to his credit, and knows his way around his kitchen like

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a classically trained chef. A year ago, I met his father, Aurelio Montes Sr., in Manhattan. Aurelio the elder worked as a winemaker in his native Chile and began to test the boundaries of what was expected from Chilean wines. He wanted to start emphasizing quality over quantity, making single-plot, handcrafted wines. The owners of the winery weren’t happy and pink-slipped him. But Aurelio Sr. was confident he was on the right path of helping to steer Chilean wine production to a much higher plane. He found a couple of partners and built Montes Wines, which is one of the few winemaker-owned wineries in all of South America.

Aurelio the younger learned all about wine and winemaking, traveling to wineries around the world.

Father and son decided to set up shop on the other side of the Andes Mountains in Argentina where they purchased an underperforming estate and began building a business plan similar to Montes Wines there. The winery is called Kaiken, named after a species of goose that treks the Andes between Chile and Argentina. This project began in 2001 with the purchase of an estate in Mendoza, the expansion of the

winery and the vineyards and very scrupulous attention to detail, from bud break to bottling. Kaiken has bought many planted plots at higher elevations with some of the vines more than 100 years old.

The winery has adopted a sustainable and biodynamic philosophy in its vineyards. It has eliminated or reduced most pesticides and herbicides. Aurelio Jr. has introduced grazing animals like sheep and cows to “mow” the lanes between the vines and to help with the fertilization. Kaiken plants, prunes and harvests within the cycles of the moon and, to help in harmonizing the wine, plays Gregorian chants and chiming bells in the feng shui-ed winery and barrel aging cellar.

It sounds a bit flaky, but I am seeing more and more of this and those that are attuned to the rhythms of the plants, earth and galaxy insist it makes a difference.

But, you ask, how are the wines? We tasted a Kaiken Brut, a lovely and lively sparkling wine, made in the traditional method. At 70 percent Pinot Noir and 30 percent Chardonnay, it showed a fresh citrusy approach with a delicious yeastiness. It should be in the U.S. soon and will be attractively priced around $20.

The brand new 2015 Kaiken Sauvignon Blanc showed a clean minerality with a crisp, tart lemon zinginess kept in check by a hint of French oak. Another white we tasted was the 2015 Kaiken Torrontes. I am a fan of well-made Torrontes, largely for the surprise factor. I know what to expect from a Chardonnay or a Sauvignon Blanc, but like Riesling, every bottle of Torrontes shows a different flavor profile. Kaiken’s was aromatic and floral with notes of orange peel. Both of these wines retail for $17 and are excellent.

Next we moved on to Kaiken reds. We tasted a couple of Cabernet Sauvignons, three Malbecs and then three barrel samples of different Malbecs that will become the signature Malbec, Kaiken Mai. Sourced at 100-year-old vineyards and priced at $60, it delivers big. The 2010 is dark, deep, bold, rich and saturated, with plum and cherry flavors jumping out of the glass.

Decanting this wine will show additional benefits.

Most of Kaiken wines can be found in the $17 range.

The 2012 Kaiken Ultra Cabernet Sauvignon shows great spice, leather and dried plums with soft and silky tannins. At $25, it overdelivers. Southern Hemisphere wines are harvested in March and April so the vintage date on the bottle is actually six months older than a Northern Hemisphere wine harvested in Septemeber.

This matters especially with recent vintages.

Aurelio leaned in and said to me, “If you want to make great wine, you must add your soul to it. The time we put in, the attention to every detail — part of my soul is in every bottle.” And that is what passion is all about.

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WHETTING THE APPETITE

Savory Wild Mushroom Cheese Bread Pudding PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ROZYCKI

My dear Saucy Readers, This is just unbelievable. I tried this recipe on a few people. The overall feedback was a 10-plus. It is so light and fluffy.

You can serve this as a side to a meal or an appetizer or a dessert.

If you choose to do a dessert, serve with sliced gourmet cheeses and fruit. Mangia!

INGREDIENTS:

DIRECTIONS:

< 1½ pounds of shiitake mushrooms and a ½-pound baby portabella mushrooms (stems removed)

ROASTED MUSHROOMS: < Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

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2 tablespoons olive oil 1 large shallot thinly chopped ½ large tomato finely diced 2 cups whole milk 6 large eggs (room temperature) 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

< Thinly slice all the mushrooms and toss with olive oil, ¼ teaspoon pepper, and ½ teaspoon salt. < Place in a roasting pan. < Cook for 30 minutes, ensuring no liquid remains in the pan. < Cool mushrooms to room temperature.

BREAD PUDDING: < Spray 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray.

< Sauté shallot in frying pan for about 3 minutes in olive oil. Set aside. < Whisk the eggs, milk, ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper,

½ cup freshly grated Parmigiana cheese, plus 2 and 1/2 tablespoons for sprinkling

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg and ½ cup Parmigiana cheese until aerated and some bubbles have formed.

< ¼ to ½ pound of day-old Italian White Tuscan Bread (torn into small pieces)

< Add the bread, roasted mushrooms, shallot, tomato, sage and basil, mixing evenly with your hands to ensure the bread is thoroughly coated.

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12 sage leaves thinly sliced 5 large basil leaves thinly sliced 12 cup nonstick muffin pan Non stick spray

12 small slice rounds of thinly cut Italian salami (optional)

< Sprinkle 2 and 1/2 tablespoons Parmigiana evenly on the 12 cups and evenly distribute mixture. (Optional – place salami pieces on bottom of each muffin cup.) < Place muffin pan on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Let rest 5 minutes and unmold onto plates. Serve hot.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The romantic transformation of 42 the Restaurant’s enclosed deck.

Cucumber and heirloom tomatoes in balsamic vinaigrette.

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Portuguese-style octopus tarte tatin with dill mustard, beans and onion on a bed of olive paste

OFFERS NEW INSIDE LOOK STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

n a clear day, you can see — well, perhaps not forever, as the song goes, but certainly as far south as Manhattan, as far west as the Hudson River, as far east as the Long Island Sound and as far north as

the Kensico Dam. Such is the panorama from the top of 42 the Restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester — a wheel of green tufts, blue waterways and bisque-colored rooftops with White Plains in the center.

“This is a big part of (Westchester) County,” Anthony Goncalves, chef-partner of 42, says of his restaurant as he drinks in the 360-degree view with WAG. “Here you can see it all. There are great celebrations here.”

And, if Goncalves has his way, there will be plenty more of them as he takes on new investors — Glacier

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Global Partners, which owns the hotel — and 42 shifts its focus to events and intimate fine dining.

“What we really did was close the bar,” he says during a conversation with WAG and Colin Mead, 42’s director of events, before we sampled a tasting menu of the chef’s superb nouvelle Mediterranean/ New American cuisine. “When you come here it’s to eat either at an event or for dinner.”

It’s a question of focus and control. “Control is a big part of it,” Mead says and Goncalves agrees.

“The feeling was if you do something, you need to pay attention to it,” Goncalves says.

“The bar was too much of a distraction.”

So gone is the 212-seat, 20,000-square-foot restaurant that opened in 2008 and in its place is a catering space whose white, neutral palette allows you to create your fantasy — Goncalves shows WAG photos of a graduation party that looked like an orgy of spring

— along with a cozy 42-seat restaurant.

Make that a 44-seat restaurant. There’s a 12-seat Chef’s Counter, a 30-seat dining area and a table with a two-seat chair on an enclosed deck that captures the Moorish flavor of Goncalve’s Portuguese background with its tile-like carpet in blue-and-lime abstract patterns and its filigree lanterns.

Inside, the blue and wood dining area, also designed by the chef, is dominated by an artwork of 12 blowups of George Washington as he appears on the $1 bill — but wearing various shades of fluorescent lipstick. It’s the U.S. Treasury meets Andy Warhol.

While George may command the décor, nothing overshadows the food. We begin our tasting menu experience with ribbons of cucumber and heirloom tomatoes from Goncalves’ garden in balsamic vinaigrette that certainly whet the appetite. The salad course is followed by a crisp, Portuguese-style octopus tarte tatin — served with dill mustard, beans and onion on a bed of olive paste and then a luscious squid ink spaghetti in a white clam sauce with carrots and pickled jalapeño.

Capping the meal are pineapple ravioli stuffed with yogurt and yuzu mousse and served with mint ice cream and an olive oil cake.

A three-course prix fixe lunch — which is new for 42 — is served weekdays; dinner, Mondays through Saturdays. The Friday and Saturday dinner menu is a six-course tasting one, with two of the courses selected by the Culinary Team, which features fare from regional sources, including The Smokehouse in Mamaroneck, McEnroe Organic Farm in Millerton and Mead Orchards in Tivoli.

Sunday will not be a day of rest — this is a 24/7 operation that can range from corporate breakfasts to after-wedding parties — but one set aside for events. Unless, of course, there’s a luncheon or dinner event on another day of the week, in which case the restaurant may be closed to regular patrons.

Isn’t the 42 team worried that the closures might be a turnoff to patrons seeking a spur-of-the-moment 42 experience?

“It’s a very loaded question,” says Mead, who adds that the answer is to be up-to-the-moment with 42 happenings on social media. Plus, this is a reservations-driven business, one in which Goncalves says he does not anticipate too many patrons being inconvenienced on weekdays or Saturdays.

Besides, he adds, “with foodies, they’ll find the time when we’re open.”

For reservations or to book an event, call 914761-4242 or visit 42therestaurant.com.

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PET OF THE MONTH

BUNDLE OF

fun MORGAN IS A 2½-YEAR-OLD DOBERMAN MIX WHO’S A PETITE PACKAGE OF PERSONALITY. She was super scared when she first got to the SPCA, but has blossomed nicely since, enjoying all the love and attention she’s getting from staff and volunteers. (Your lap will be her favorite place.) Morgan is good with most other dogs and would be happiest in a home with older kids, like teenagers. If you’re looking for a cute pooch, Morgan fits the bill.

To meet Morgan, visit the SPCA of Westchester at 590 N. State Road in Briarcliff Manor.

Founded in 1883, the SPCA is a no-kill shelter and is not affiliated with the ASPCA. The SPCA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.

To learn more, call 914-941-2896 or visit spca914.org.

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PET POTRAITS

DEBBIE MASELLI’S “FUR BABIES” — make that “fur grand-

ANGELA SIGNOR — an alumna of our sister publications —

babies” — are a 3-year-old white female boxer named Bentley and a 7-month-old male German Shepherd mix named Bane.

Both live in Poughkeepsie with her daughter and husband, who are in law enforcement.

Bentley was purchased from an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania as a wedding present from Debbie’s daughter to her husband. “(Bentley) has been well-trained and is a loving pleasure to be with.

“Bane is a rescue,” adds Debbie, a Valhalla resident and facilities specialist with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. “He’s very sweet but is all-boy and at times can test the limits with his mischief. We often say he is the ‘Bane of our existence.’ In all seriousness, he’s great and getting better with the training — a work in progress.”

has sent WAG this photo of her mom, Emogene Signor, and Emogene’s new dog, Buddy, a 6-month-old Bichon Frise-Shih Tzu mix, enjoying the 25th anniversary of the Hudson Valley Balloon Festival in Poughkeepsie, where Angela lives.

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LADIES SING THE BLUES

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

N SEPT. 25, ARTSWESTCHESTER IN WHITE PLAINS WILL PRESENT A BLUES CONCERT AS PART OF ITS 2015 JAZZ FEST. But if that has you conjuring images of the Mississippi Delta, Billie Holiday and Muddy Waters, think again.

The concert is “Women of the Piedmont Blues,” which is different from what we probably think of when we think of the blues and rhythm and blues.

“Rhythm and blues is urban music played on an electric guitar,” says Frank Matheis, concert producer and ArtsWestchester board member.

“The Piedmont blues is traditional music that comes out of rural African-American culture and is played on acoustic guitar and other reg-

Piedmont Blues performers, from left, Eleanor Ellis, Jackie Merritt, Resa Gibbs and Valerie Turner.

Photograph courtesy ArtsWestchester and thecountryblues.com.

ular instruments at home. The Piedmont region stretches from the Appalachian Mountains to the Tidewater, from New Jersey to Georgia, so the music is also called the East Coast blues.”

The blues in general grew out of African-American slavery and would go on to influence jazz. Part of what distinguishes the Piedmont blues is a kind of guitar playing characterized by fingerpicking and alternating lead and bass lines.

“In comparison to the Delta blues, which has a rapid attack and is very rhythmic, the Piedmont blues is gentle, kind of lighthearted.”

The lyrics, though, are classic blues subjects — love, sex, murder — as these songs were a way to communicate news in the 19th century, Matheis says.

“My affiliation with this music is deep,” he says. Matheis, a Pawling resident, is the publisher of thecountryblues.com and a contributing writer to Living Blues magazine, which is associated with the University of Mississippi and is considered the premier blues publication. Previously, ArtsWestchester presented a successful concert of East Coast blues. Working again with Tom Van Buren, the arts council’s director of

folk arts and performance programs, Matheis has come up with a program that features some of the foremost women carrying on the tradition — Eleanor Ellis, Resa Gibbs, Jackie Merritt and Valerie Turner. These musicians were trained by John Cephas, an important Piedmont blues player out of Washington, D.C., the center for this kind of music for the last half-century.

The four will be joined onstage by Bettina Wilkerson, better known as Gold, a Poughkeepsie-based poet, songwriter, performer and activist whose words are influenced by the Piedmont blues.

It is still, however, a male-dominated art form, with only 20 women committed to it worldwide, although the number of Piedmont blues musicians overall is shrinking.

Still, Matheis says, the Piedmont blues has transcended gender and, wherever it could in the Jim Crow era, race as well — another example of the transformative power of art.

“Women of the Piedmont Blues” will be presented at 8 p.m. Sept. 25 at ArtsWestchester’s headquarters, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Tickets for the concert are $20. For more information, visit artswestchester.org.

THROUGH SEPT. 13 Westport Country Playhouse reunites playwright Alan Ayckbourn and direc-

THROUGH NOV. 29

tor John Tillinger with an ensemble cast

Explore the world through the lens of

of popular actors from prior Ayckbourn

photographer

works in the comedy “Bedroom Farce.”

at the Bruce Museum. “Theodore Nie-

7 p.m. Tuesdays, 2 and 8 p.m. Wednes-

renberg: Photographs from His World

days, 8 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays, 3

Travels” showcases approximately 25

and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays.

portraits of indigenous peoples. 1 Mu-

25 Powers Court, Westport; 203-227-

seum Drive, Greenwich; 203-869-0376,

4177, westportplayhouse.org

brucemuseum.org

Theodore

WHEN & WHERE

Nierenberg

❖❖❖ Greenwich Polo Club continues with the finals of the East Coast Open Sept. 6

SEPT. 8 THROUGH NOV. 8

and closes out the season Sept. 13. The

The College of New Rochelle presents

gates open at 1 p.m., with matches at 3

“Then and Now: Ten Years of Resi-

p.m. greenwichpoloclub.com

dences at the Center for Book Arts.”

The exhibit features more than 120

THROUGH OCT. 1 A new “Summer Invitational” exhibit, “Interpretations,” features works by Katharine Draper, Catherine Caulfield Russell and Joan Poarch curated by artist and designer Gail Ingis-Claus. Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Ave., Norwalk; 203-838-9799,

‘THEN & NOW: TEN YEARS OF RESIDENCES AT THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS’ SEPT. 8 THROUGH NOV. 8

lockwoodmathewsmansion.com

THROUGH OCT. 31

biblio-inspired works that explore the book as an item to be altered, transformed or completely reimagined. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Castle Gallery, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle; 914-654-5423, castlegallery.cnr.edu

ture and installations by more than 70 par-

SEPT. 9 THROUGH 13

ticipants on the rolling fields of a 140-acre,

The American Gold Cup, one of the most

18th-century farm. 10 a.m. to dusk daily;

prestigious events in international show

Collaborative Concepts @ Saunders

opening reception Sept.5. Saunders Farm,

jumping, returns to Old Salem Farm. 190

Farm – A nonprofit organization of profes-

853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison; col-

June Road, North Salem; theamerican-

sional artists that brings together sculp-

laborativeconcepts.org

goldcup.com, oldsalemfarm.net

SEPT. 11 In 2009, Congress declared 9/11 a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

SEPT. 11 THROUGH 13 The 38th Annual Norwalk Seaport Association Oyster Festival – 6 to 11 p.m.

Sept. 11, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 12 and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 13. Norwalk Veter-

CRAFTS AT LYNDHURST SEPT. 18 THROUGH 20

ans Memorial Park, adjacent to Norwalk Harbor on Seaview Ave., Norwalk; 203838-9444, seaport.org

SEPT. 11 THROUGH OCT. 24

CHINESE GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS SEPT. 19

SEPT. 18 ArtsWestchester presents “The Mountain Music Project: A Musical Odyssey

Pelham Art Center presents “the only

from Appalachia to Himalaya.” The

home we have,” a group exhibit that con-

film charts the journey of two tradition-

fronts the issue of climate change. 10 a.m.

al musicians from the hills of Virginia to

to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10

the mountains of rural Nepal, where they

a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. 155 Fifth Ave., Pel-

explore the connections between Appa-

ham; 914-738-2525, pelhamartcenter.org

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culture. The screening will be followed

SEPT. 19

by a concert of the fiddle-based music of

The Barn Dance at John Jay Home-

the two locales. 7:30 p.m. The ArtsWest-

stead includes a country barbecue, a

chester Gallery, 31 Mamaroneck Ave.,

pizza truck, a campfire and music by

White Plains; 914-428-4220, artswest-

local bands. Johnny Peers’ Muttville Co-

chester.org/folkarts

mix, an act featuring dogs rescued from

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shelters, will make its debut. 5 p.m. John

The National MS Society NYC-Southern

Jay Homestead State Historic Site, 400

New York chapter presents its 10th an-

Jay St., Katonah; 914-234-5698, johnjay-

nual “Women on the Move” Luncheon,

homestead.org/events/barndance

a leadership initiative designed to bring

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women and men together to find a cure

The 2015 SoWe Music Festival features

for multiple sclerosis. 10:30 a.m. to 2

dozens of musicians, including Marc

p.m., Hilton Westchester, 699 Westches-

Cohn, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Shawn

ter Ave., Rye Brook; 212-463-7787, na-

Mullins, David Johansen, Steve Forbert,

tionalmssociety.org/Chapters/NYN

SEPT. 18 THROUGH 20

Willie Nile and others. The festivities include beer, wine, food trucks, carnival rides and more. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Harbor

Circus Latino! - A multicultural arts col-

Island Park, 123 Mamaroneck Ave., Ma-

laboration celebrating Sleepy Hollow,

maroneck, 917-733-3900, sowemusicfes-

with Westchester Circus Arts and Jazz

tival.com

Forum Arts under a 90-foot circus tent

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at the new Edge-on-Hudson site (the

Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats

former General Motors property), 7 p.m.

– Traditional dance, gravity-defying

Sept. 18 and 2 and 6 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20.

acrobatics and spectacular costuming

199 Beekman Ave. 914-631-1000, visit-

are combined with ancient and con-

sleepyhollow.com

54TH ANNUAL ARMONK OUTDOOR ART SHOW SEPT. 26 & 27

temporary theatrical techniques in a

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program of skill and beauty. 8 p.m. Ac-

Stripped Scripts performs “Love, Loss

The 54th annual Armonk Outdoor

Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst, now entering

ademic Arts Theatre, Hankin Academic

and What I Wore” by the late Nora Eph-

Art Show, benefiting the North Castle

its fourth decade, finds 300 artists filling

Arts Building, Westchester Communi-

ron to benefit Live With Care, a project

Public Library. More than 185 juried

the grounds of the Neo-Gothic Lyndhurst

ty College, 75 Grasslands Road, Val-

of the nonprofit Westchester End-of-

artists from 31 states, as well as Can-

mansion, along with tours, live music,

halla;

Life Coalition (WELC). A ‘talkback’ with

ada and Israel, will be featured – 42

children’s activities, gourmet specialty

smartarts

the actors and an expert in narrative

new to the show. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

foods and craft demonstrations. 10 a.m.

medicine from WELC will follow the

rain or shine. 205 Business Park Drive,

to 5 p.m. Sept. 18 and 20, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

performance. 7 p.m. Reformed Church

Armonk; 914-806-6307, armonkout-

of

doorartshow.org

Sept. 19, rain or shine. 635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown; 845-331-7900, artrider.com

914-606-6262,

sunywcc.edu/

SEPT. 20

Pondfield Road, Bronxville; 914-320-

seum’s eighth annual Old-fashioned

9179, westchesterendoflife.org

Flea Market offers shoppers a variety

SEPT. 27

of items from new to repurposed to

ARI (Always Reaching for Indepen-

vintage, including antiques, furniture,

SEPT. 24 THROUGH 27

collectibles, jewelry, household goods,

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dence) of CT presents the “Gospel Con-

The White Plains Jazz Fest – Sep-

cert for Independence,” featuring sev-

clothing, toys and more. 10 a.m. to 5

tember sizzles to a close with a four-

en recognized gospel groups, including

p.m., Lockwood Mathews Park, 295

day celebration of jazz in downtown

Chris Coogan and the Good News

West Ave., Norwalk; 203-838-9799,

White Plains that culminates in an out-

Gospel Choir. All proceeds benefit ARI

lockwoodmathewsmansion.com

door Jazz & Food Festival on Mama-

of CT. VIP reception at 5 p.m. at the

roneck Avenue Sept. 27. artswestches-

Norwalk Inn, concert at 7 p.m. Norwalk

ter.org/2015-jazz-fest

Concert Hall, 125 East Ave., Norwalk;

The Westport Country Playhouse fund-

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The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Mu-

SEPT. 21

‘THEODORE NIERENBERG: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HIS WORLD TRAVELS’ THROUGH NOV. 29

Bronxville/Edwards

203-324-9258, ext. 3023, arict.org

raiser “Something Wonderful: A Gala

SEPT. 26

Evening Celebrating 2015 Tony Award

The season opener of Copland House fea-

SEPT. 28

Winner Kelli O’Hara” features special

tures “25+ ... Celebrating Leonard Bern-

The Best and The Wurst Craft Beer

guest Matthew Morrison. Attire festive,

stein,” with pianists Michael Barrett, John

Festival, sponsored by The Rotary Club

black tie optional. Cocktails at 5:45 p.m.

Musto and Michael Boriskin and other art-

of Yorktown. Noon to 5 p.m. Yorktown

curtain call at 7 p.m., dinner at 8:30 p.m.

ists. 8 p.m. Copland House at Merestead,

Heights Firemen’s Field, 271 Veter-

25 Powers Court, Westport; 888-9287-

455 Byram Lake Road, Mount Kisco; 914-

ans Road, Yorktown Heights; TheBe-

7529, westportplayhouse.org

788-4659, coplandhouse.org

stAndTheWurst.org

Tickets on sale now! (203) 438-5795 THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE for movies and the performing arts

RIDGEFIELDPLAYHOUSE.ORG 80 East Ridge • Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877

Non-profit 501 (c) (3)

MELISSA ETHERIDGE

2 Nights!

This is M.E. Solo Tour

October 5 & 6 @ 8PM Sharing her most beloved songs and the personal stories that inspired them.

John Leguizamo:

Latin History for Dummies

15th Anniversary Gala

Smokey Robinson October 10

5:30PM Gala, 8PM Show Don’t miss this MOTOWN legend!

Pilobolus

September 16 @ 8PM

September 25 @ 7:30PM

Chazz Palminteri A Bronx Tale

Gilbert Gottfried

A comic take on 500 years of Latin history in this hilarious, satirical, and even educational one-man show!

September 18 @ 8PM

World renowned modern dance company from CT!

September 26 @ 8PM

“The king of inappropriate humor” returns!

His one-man stage version of the critically acclainmed film The Bronx Tale.

Street Beat

September 19 @ 4 & 7:30PM

If you like STOMP and “Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk” you’ll LOVE this show!

Charlie Daniels Band September 20 @ 8PM Special Guest Union Rail

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia," "Uneasy Rider" and "Long Haired Country Boy".

The Spirit of Michael Jackson

September 27 @ 8PM

A stunning multi-media tribute to the “King of Pop’s” life and legacy.

Ballet Folklórico de México

September 30 @ 8PM

Exquisite folk dance that reflects the rich culture of Mexico.

Craig Ferguson: The New Deal Tour

Re-imaging Benny Goodman featuring Oran Etkin

Host of CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Tickets include Champagne tasting and Brunch

by Bernard’s.

September 23 @ 8PM

Sunday Champagne Jazz Brunch

October 2 @ 8PM

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} Make-A-Wish recently held its annual Wish Ball at the DoubleTree by Hilton Tarrytown. Hundreds of guests and corporate and community leaders joined in honoring the courage of children with life-threatening medical conditions, the joy in their wishes fulfilled and the compassion of donors. The event honored this year’s biggest fundraisers, Janet and Tom Sullivan.

Darlene Rodriguez of NBC’s “Today in New York” and Mike Bennett of WHUD’s “Mike & Kacey in the Morning” served as celebrity co-hosts for the evening’s festivities.

1. Darlene Rodriquez, Wish Kids and Wish Alumni 2. Wish Mom Tina, Tom and Janet Sullivan and Wish Mom Linda Pauling

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New York Yankee closer Mariano Rivera and his wife, Clara; longtime trustee Robert Heath; and faculty member Dorothy Jonas.

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} The Music Conservatory of Westchester recently raised $150,000 with its 14th annual Golf & Tennis Classic at the Whippoorwill Club in Armonk. After a day of golf and tennis, some 230 attendees enjoyed the awards dinner, which honored legendary

Photographs by Nina Kruse.

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More than 120 guests were in attendance at The Philipstown Garden Club Silent Auction, which took place recently on the beautiful grounds of Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison. Proceeds from the auction support the garden club’s ongoing horticulture internships and education programs.

8. Linda Magnusson Rosario and Betsey and Don Blakeslee 9. Judy and Jerry Walsh 10. Thomas Giordonello and Madelyn Klehr-Keyes 11. Peg Crawford Lijoi, Ann Brown and Elise LaRocco 12. Barbara Hernendez and Janet Keyes

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1. Allison Carballo, Nichola Johnson and Nancy Lyons 2. Ed Trapasso, Phil Waga and Dean Bender 3. Kathy Guglielmo and Dean Brown 4. Michael Zingone, Marcia Pflug and Stephen Klein 5. Nancy Gould, Mariangela Cavaggioni and Judie Kaplan

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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently held its gala to celebrate marine champions and the world’s oceans. The event was held at the Central Park Zoo, highlighting the WCS’ role in ensuring a healthy future for our oceans, their incredible marine biodiversity and the human communities that depend on them. Honorees included Barbara Hrbek Zucker, Donald Zucker and Julie E. Packard for their passion for marine conservation.

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SUPPORTING PUBLIC TV

WNET, parent company of New York’s public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, raised $2.75 million at its 21st Gala Salute, which took place at Cipriani in Manhattan. WNET honored architect David Adjaye; Chairman of the MCJ Amelior Foundation Ray Chambers; the corporation Johnson & Johnson; supporter of the arts and longtime WNET trustee Ann Tenenbaum; and actor Alfre Woodard. The event was hosted by “PBS NewsHour Weekend” anchor and “SciTech Now” host Hari Sreenivasan and “NYC-ARTS” cohost and veteran television journalist Paula Zahn (WAG, November 2012). Guests also enjoyed a performance by the indie rock band A Silent Film.

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The Bruce Museum held its 28th annual Renaissance Ball, “Highland Fling,” at Century Country Club in Purchase. This event, representing the museum’s largest fundraiser of the year, took the oldest of the traditional dances of Scotland as its inspiration. The theme of this year’s Renaissance Ball was also a nod to the heritage of the museum’s founder, Robert Moffat Bruce. The evening honored Leora and Steven Levy for their exemplary and long-standing support.

Photographs by Kyle Norton.

1. John and Patricia Chadwick, Kathy and Bill Georgas 2. Keller Torrey, Benny Tabatabai and Samira Haratizadeh 3. Steven and Leora Levy 4. Sachiko Goodman, Donald and Marcia Hamilton and Lawrence Goodman 5. Richard and Elodie Taittinger 6. Daniel and Jessica Fass 7. Jack and Donna Moffly and Whitney and John Rosenberg 8. JB Lockhart and Jim Lockhart 9. Roger and Claude Lourie 10.Glenn and Hal Shaw, Noah and Jordan Rhodes 11. Bob and Gale Lawrence 12. Lucy and Nat Day 13. Lori Feldman, Mari Nuzum, Sabina Kelley, Daryl Hulme and Heidi Safriet

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WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL’S

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The second annual Corporate FunRun Westchester 5k encouraged 1,282 participants and 72 company teams to lace up their running shoes recently at Purchase College. The after-work, company-based run/walk attracted 500 more participants and nearly 30 more teams than in 2014, its inaugural year, raising more than $300,000 for Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla. Coined “The Summer’s Best Office Party,” the event featured a postrace fest and awards ceremony honoring the top individual and team racers.

Photographs by Brian Zuleta.

1. Team members of Dannon 2. Team members of Evian 3. Team members of Club Fit 4. The Winners Circle - Jake Feinstein, Kerwin Vega and Paul Thompson

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Summer Trails Day Camp recently hosted an event with New York Yankees’ shortstop Didi Gregorius to provide campers in the baseball program with a memorable learning experience. Gregorius led a baseball-focused discussion, demonstrated skills, answered campers’ questions and autographed memorabilia. The kids were able to engage in the sport and have fun with friends while testing their talents and expanding their sense of sportsmanship.

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Ossining’s own Jamie Loeb recently returned to her hometown for Jamie Loeb Day. After receiving a proclamation from village officials, the 2015 NCAA Women’s Singles champion instructed young tennis players from the Ossining Day Camp program on the Nelson Park Tennis Courts. Earlier this year, Loeb was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Year for the second consecutive season and is one of only seven multiple-time winners in the history of the conference.

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10th Annual

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CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY. HOSTED BY:

Honoring Board of Trustees Member Tobi Rogowsky In support of a world free of multiple sclerosis.

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The Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College recently celebrated the opening of two exhibits – “Gold” (representing “Greed”), part of the Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance’s “Seven Deadly Sins” project, and “Teresa Margolles: We Have a Common Thread,” featuring several works by the Mexican artist.

Photographs by Jeff Zawrotny.

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The Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers hosted the August premiere of HBO’s “Show Me a Hero,” the story of embattled Yonkers’ Mayor Nicholas Wasicsko during the crisis surrounding the court-ordered integration of Yonkers public housing in the late 1980s. Stars from the six-part miniseries, including series’ creator David Simon (“The Wire,” “Treme”), were present on the red carpet along with local politicians and fans.

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Nonprofit Westchester hosted a Summer Networking Mixer recently at Lola’s Mexican Kitchen in White Plains, where more than 50 members of the county’s nonprofit community gathered to make new friends.

Photographs by Nonprofit Westchester.

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GUIDING EYES ON THE PRIZE

Guiding Eyes for the Blind, one of the foremost guide dog schools, recently recognized Curt J. Landtroop with its 2015 President’s Leadership Award.

The award honors an individual who has demonstrated personal and professional excellence in support of Guiding Eyes’ mission. Said Landtroop, “I have been able to seek and attain my dreams and goals because of the freedom and confidence I gained from having Guiding Eyes’ guide dogs.”

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7. Wendy Aglietti, Curt J. Landtroop with his guide dog Windsor, and Thomas Panek with his guide dog Gus.

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Power down.

Close your eyes.

Breathe.

Experience the Westchester Philharmonic.

Jaime Laredo, conducting Sharon Robinson, cello October 18 Ted Sperling, conducting Ashley Brown, vocals Joe Mohan, piano December 20

Winter Pops!

Ted Sperling, conducting Dawn Upshaw, soprano February 7

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AROUND THE WORLD

The Becker Salon in Greenwich was the setting for a recent cocktail reception to kick off the Orphans International Worldwide Summer 2015 East Coast Tour, supporting the organization’s ongoing educational projects in Haiti, India Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The reception was hosted by board member Sara Herbert-Galloway.

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Photographs by Mangala Weerasekera.

1. Alana Galloway and Holly Roth 2. Victor de Souza, Ellen McGrath and Dustin Lujan 3. Nancy Meckel and Sattie Persuad 4. Sara Herbert-Galloway, John Lee and Kristine Kucej

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INSIDE THE KATONAH MUSEUM

Recently supporters of the Katonah Museum of Art gathered for a “First Look” at its newest exhibit, “Inside the Outside: Five-Self Taught Artists from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation.” Besides a sneak peak of the show, guests enjoyed a collector’s talk with Louis-Dreyfus and KMA executive director Darsie Alexander.

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Photographs by Bobbie Cahill.

5. Sarah Marshall, Darsie Alexander and Robin Simon 6. William Louis-Dreyfus and Tara Coniaris 7. Jeff Blockinger, Jeffrey Coniaris and Sherry Blockinger

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STRAIGHT FROM VICTOR’S MOUTH

It was a talk straight from the jockey’s mouth at Steiner Sports Marketing in New Rochelle as Victor Espinoza engaged a crowd of about 50 admirers with tales of his Triple Crown-winning exploits with American Pharoah. Afterward, he posed for individual photographs. Espinoza, who had just won the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park with the Pharoah, has signed a memorabilia deal with Steiner Sports.

Photograph by Georgette Gouveia.

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GETTING OTHERS SCHOOL-READY

Professional Women of Putnam hosted “Cocktails & Connections” recently at The Chophouse Grille in Mahopac and collected donations of school supplies to benefit the Putnam Community Action Program. CAP, which is dedicated to serving the residents of Putnam County who are struggling to support themselves/and or their families.

1. Jamie Imperati and Judy Callaghan

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GETTING CONNECTED

The Westchester County Association’s “Connecting Westchester” party recently drew more than 200 people for cocktails and conversation. The annual shindig brought together many of Westchester’s top business and community leaders, along with emerging players for a night of networking at Whitby Castle, overlooking Milton Harbor and the Long Island Sound.

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2. Kevin Higgons 3. Naveen Mishra, Brittany Zachos and Joe Sack 4. Thayne Phanpinyo 5. Stanley Freimuth, William Mooney III, Thomas Mooney and Ron Regan 6. Dawn Mayer, Talieh Sadri and Tishann Marriott 7. Nathaniel Boley and Shelby Zucker 8. Carolyn Mandelker, Joe Leake and Suzanne Giorgio 9. Ed Badillo and David Vogel

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It was some enchanted evening as lovers of fine food, drink and conversation gathered at the Castle Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown for one of the luxe resort’s “Poolside Pairings.” For “Mixology Night” — which featured Tigre Blanc Vodka from France, Langley’s No. 8 English Dry Gin and Don Pancho’s Rum from Panama — the Castle’s Equus restaurant served up such nibbles as fried artichoke with taso, franks in a blanket, spring rolls, luscious lemon squares and mini chocolate mousse treats.

Craig Scott Entertainment provided the enjoyable but unobtrusive music and Central Cigar Lounge, a cigar table as guests laughed and sang into the night in the grotto-like setting.

Photographs by Georgette Gouveia.

1. Poolside at Castle Hotel & Spa 2. Sean Fullan and Lucinda Sloan-Fullan 3. Karen Morello and John Pawlowski 4. Kim Gacsek-Mitchell and Daniel Mitchell 5. Beth Gray, Lori Peraglia, Yasmin Saleh and Rosie Quinones 6. Carmen and Rick Arruzza

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Riverside Crafts Fair AUGUST 15 & 16, 10 to 5

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CRUISIN’ WITH BCW

More than 150 Business Council of Westchester members and friends cruised along the Hudson River recently aboard the luxurious Hornblower as part of the council’s “Cruise Connections” event. The evening included dinner, drinks and an opportunity to network with the region’s movers-and-shakers as the Hudson breezes offered a nice respite from the high summer temperatures. After the sunset cruise, revelers toasted one another at Yonkers Brewery, just a block away from the Yonkers pier.

1. Amanda DePalma and Peter Herrero 2. Meg Curtin, Ebony White, Amanda Muth and Andrea Suarez-Navarro 3. Ryan McAuliffe, Maria Bronzi and Joseph Pizzimenti 4. George Lence, Marsha Gordon and Jerry McKinstry 5. Donvil Collins 6. John Habermann 7. Jake and Marlene Young

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HAVE YOU EVER MADE A FASHION FAUX PAS?*

Rick Arruzza

Tina Cervasio

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Jimmy Ramroop

Richie Giorgianni

Lucinda Sloan-Fullan

Kathy Locke

Lara Sullivan

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