Jean Shafiroff and The Couture Council Board of Director
of
The Museum at FIT hosted a private champagne reception
on November 5, 2013. The guest of honor was author
Virginia Postrel
to celebrate her new book The Power
of Glamour. The event was held in a private
residence on the Upper East Side.
Cornelia
Guest Events, catered the two-hour reception,
which hosted 80 glamorous guests who included Melissa
Berkelhammer, Jeffery Bradfield, Alyson Cafiero, Bonnie
Cantor, Alva Chinn, Suzanne Chute, Victor de Souza,
Katlean DeMonchy, Alexis Doyle, Dee Dee Taylor Eustace,
Patricia Falkenberg, Joseph Fichera, Joele Frank, Laura
Lofaro Freeman, Lisa Hoenshell, Sharon King Hoge, Lucia
Hwong Gordon, James Kaplove, Rod Keenan, Celerie Kemble,
Michele Gerber Klein, Bonnie and Michael Koblenz, Joan
Kron, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Loeffler, Judy A. Lockhart,
Elizabeth Musmanno, Leiba Neisis, Maggie Norris, Liz
Peek, Janis Savitt, Jody Schwartz, Cassandra Seidenfeld,
Laren Stover, Patricia Shiah, Randall and Lewen Stempler,
Steven Stolman, Sophia Tzelepis, Ike Ude, Jessica Wade,
Rich Wilkie, and Yliana Yepez.
Jean Shafiroff toasted Virginia’s success with the book
and generously gave each guest a copy of The Power of
Glamour
to take home with them.
About
The Power of Glamour is
the very first book to explain what glamour really
is—not a style or personal quality but an imaginative
phenomenon that reveals our inner lives and shapes our
decisions, large and small. From vacation brochures to
military recruiting ads, from the Chrysler Building to
the iPad, from political utopias to action heroines,
Postrel argues that glamour’s magic stretches far beyond
the stereotypical spheres of fashion or film,
influencing what we buy, where we live, which careers we
pursue, and how we vote. The result is myth-shattering:
a revelatory theory that explains how glamour became a
powerful form of nonverbal persuasion, one that taps
into our most secret dreams and deepest yearnings to
influence our everyday choices.
About Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel is an author, columnist, and speaker
whose work spans a broad range of topics, from social
science to fashion, concentrating on the intersection of
culture and commerce. Writing in Vanity Fair, Sam
Tanenhaus described her as "a master D.J. who sequences
the latest riffs from the hard sciences, the social
sciences, business, and technology, to name only a few
sources." Postrel is the author most recently of The
Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual
Persuasion,
to be published in November by Simon & Schuster. Her
previous books are The
Substance of Style (2003)
and The
Future and Its Enemies (1998).
She is a regular columnist for Bloomberg
View.
A popular speaker for business, design, and university
groups, she teaches a five-day seminar on "Glamour:
Theory and Practice" in the Branding
MPS program at the School of Visual Arts in
New York. Her corporate speaking venues have included
Nike, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, 7 for All Mankind,
Target, Liz Claiborne, Sony, and IDEO. Postrel graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, with a degree
in English literature, specializing in the Renaissance,
and a heavy concentration of economics coursework. She
is married to
Steven Postrel,
an economist and business strategy professor,
and lives in Los Angeles.
About The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT
The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT, created in
2004, is a membership group dedicated to supporting The
Museum at FIT, a specialized museum of fashion. The
Couture Council helps make it possible for the museum to
mount world-class exhibitions of fashion, to acquire
important objects for its permanent collection, and to
organize public programs, such as the annual fashion
symposium. The Couture Council accomplishes these goals
through membership dues and by organizing fundraising
events such as the annual Couture Council Awards
Luncheon, which presents a chosen designer with the
Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion.
Members of the Couture Council receive invitations to at
least five special events a year, including
behind-the-scenes tours of the museum’s collection and
exhibitions, opening receptions, and visits to the
ateliers of fashion designers in New York. Couture
Council members are also the first to receive notice of
the annual Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award
luncheon.
In addition, Couture Council members receive
complimentary admittance to all museum educational
programs, as well as to the annual fashion symposium,
acknowledgments in FIT's annual report, in the
exhibition galleries and brochures, and on the FIT
website and exclusive opportunities to meet other
patrons of
the fashion arts.
Couture Council annual membership is $1,000 per
individual or couple, or $350 for Young Associates
(under the age of 35). Membership is tax deductible to
the extent provided by law. Please make checks payable
to the FIT Foundation. Mail checks to The Museum at FIT,
attention: Couture Council, 227 West 27th Street,
Director's Office, Room E304, New York, NY 10001-5992.
For more about The Couture Council visit
http://www.fitnyc.edu/3525.asp
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