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Liz Peek, Glenda Bailey, Dr. Valerie Steele, FIT Museum director; honoree
Alber Elbaz, Dr. Joyce Brown, president of FIT; Jeff Peek, chairman of
CIT Group.
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The
Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute
of Technology (FIT) honored Alber
Elbaz of Lanvin with its second annual Couture
Council Award for Artistry of Fashion at a luncheon
in the Rainbow Room on September 5.
The event, which will benefit the exhibitions and
programs of The Museum at FIT, was sponsored by CIT Group
Inc. Couture Council chairs included Liz
Peek, Yaz Hernandez, and Sarah Wolfe. Honorary
chairs were Charlotte Moss and Ralph
Rucci. Luncheon Chairs included Glenda
Bailey, Joanne de Guardiola, Tiffany Dubin, Linda Evangelista,
Frédéric Fekkai, and Lisa
Perry. Junior Luncheon chairs included Byrdie
Bell, Tennessee Hamilton,
Serena Nikkah, Alexis Tobin, Ivanka Trump, and Whitney
Wolfe, and the artistic committee included Simon
Doonan and Kim Hastreiter.
An advisory committee of leading fashion authorities
recommended Mr. Elbaz for this honor. They were Glenda
Bailey, editor-in-chief of Harpers Bazaar; Tim
Blanks of style.com; Akiko Fukai,
director and chief curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute; Julie
Gilhart, senior vice president of Barney's
New York; Pamela Golbin, curator of
the Musée de la Mode et du Textile; Kim
Hastreiter, editor-in-chief of Paper Magazine; Patricia
Mears, deputy director of The Museum at FIT; Caroline
Milbank, fashion historian; David
Wolfe of the Doneger Group; and Dr.
Valerie Steele, director and chief curator
of The Museum at FIT.
Alber Elbaz has been the artistic director of the
women's Pret-à-Porter collection of Lanvin
since October 2001. After graduating from Shenkar
College, the Tel Aviv School of Fashion and Textiles,
he trained in New York as the right-hand person to
Geoffrey Beene. In 1996, he became head Prêt-à-Porter
designer for Guy Laroche. Two years later, he
took over from Yves Saint Laurent as artistic director
of the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche collections. Reconciling
modernity and femininity, Mr. Elbaz led Lanvin back
to its original place as one of the major international
luxury fashion houses.
His work and talents have been recognized throughout
the world. Among his many honors are the Legion
of Honor, and the International Fashion Award from
the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Formed in December 2004, the Couture Council is a
membership group that provides support for the exhibitions
and programs of The Museum at FIT. It also helps
to fund acquisitions and to support the conservation
of the museum's permanent collection of more
than 50,000 garments and accessories. Benefits
of membership include invitations to exclusive events
and private viewings, admittance to museum educational
programs, and acknowledgements in exhibition galleries
and printed materials.
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Chloë Sevigny, Glenda Bailey, Alber Elbaz, Demi Moore, Linda Evangelista.
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Emcee Simon Doonan with Michael Boardman.
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Eve with John Demsey.
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Iman.
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Charlotte Moss, Ralph Rucci, Susan Gutfreund.
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Becca Cason Thrash.
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Muffie Potter Aston, Jamee Gregory.
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Iris Apfel and Zibby Tozer.
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Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and
Nathalie de Gunzburg.
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Mai Hallingby, Arnold Scaasi, Pamela Fiori, and Parker
Ladd.
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Blaine Trump.
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Michele Gerber Klein.
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Gillian Miniter.
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Bettina Zilkha.
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Fabiola Beracasa.
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Renee Rockefeller.
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Cece Cord.
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos.
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Plum Sykes.
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Byrdie Bell.
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Isabel Toledo.
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Zani Gugelmann.
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Rachel Zoe.
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Frédéric Fekkai, Shirin von Wulffen.
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Julie Gilhart.
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Susan Shin.
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Susan Tabak.
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Amy Fine Collins.
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Coralie Charriol Paul, Alber Elbaz.
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Linda Fargo.
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Kim Hastreiter, Lynn Yaeger.
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