On April 24, 2012---
Ward Landrigan and Nico Landrigan, Chairman and President of
Verdura, hosted an invitation-only party to honor FIT’s
Couture Council members and their tireless support of The
Museum at FIT, Manhattan’s premiere museum of
fashion. Joining the Landrigan's at their jewelry-box salon
overlooking Central Park was co-host Eleanora Kennedy,
Couture Council Board member, and Valerie Steele, Director
of the Museum at FIT.
Sipping cocktails, guests
perused the Spring 2012 Verdura collection and recent
additions to the company’s Museum Collection of vintage
Verdura.
The guest list included:
Noreen Ahmad, James Andrews,
Elizabeth M. Armstrong,
Louisa Bacharia, Marlene & Maurice Barr, Melissa
Berkelhammer, Geoffrey Bradfield,
Catherine Carey, Alyson Cafiero, Susan Calhoun Moss,
Bonnie Cantor, Liliana Cavendis, Kirsten Chilstrom, Nedinia
Criag, Antoinette Denisof, Michelle Lin Greenip, Susan
Gutfreund, Montague Hackett, Carole Divet Harting, Elizabeth
Haynes, Yaz Hernandez, Mary Hillard, Sharon Hoge, Chiu-Ti
Jansen, Nicole Jones, Robyn Josephy, Ray and Karen Karlsrud,
Eleanora and Michael Kennedy, Bonnie & Michael Kolblenz,
Alexandra Lebenthal, Brenda Levin, Kamie Lightburn, Laura
Lofaro Freeman, Chloe Malle, Sarah Mandato, Livia E. Marotta,
Sylvester& Gillian Miniter, Alison Minton, Lindsay Moore,
Maggie Norris, Rosemary Panzo, Liz Peek, Heidi Pelczar,
Bambi Putnam, Barbara Regna, Pascale Richard, Annette Rickel,
Clint Rodenberg, Alexa Rudulfo, Anita Roselle, Angela
Rothfield, Alan Ruby, Vivian Ruggiero, Anna Safir, Jean
Shafiroff, Yoo Rang Shon, Elaine Sourlis, Valerie Steele,
Bobby Strutnam, Silvana Suaraz, Jeffrey Thomas and Sarah
Wolf.
Mrs. Kennedy
wore one of the Vintage Verdura, a 1967 Lily of the Valley
Brooch of gold, platinum, emeralds, diamonds and pearls,
which was commissioned in the 1940s by Baroness Liliane de
Rothschild and crafted from the baby teeth of her
children (now replaced by pearls).
Dr. Steele
wore the "Comedy and Tragedy Mask" brooch of gold emeralds,
sapphires, pearls and diamonds created for Claire Booth
Luce. When she won a Tony award for "The Women" in 1940,
Luce was disappointed to learn that her beloved Tony was too
heavy to be converted into a brooch so her good friends Jock
and Betsy Whitney commissioned this as a Christmas present
in 1941.