| EVENT REPORT 10.31.06 9:00 PM |
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| Ladies Lunch Is All About Handbags (and Charity) |
| Dozens of satchels were on the auction block at the Beverly Wilshire at a daytime event benefiting lupus research. |
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| Some Beverly Hills ladies would have called it the perfect trifecta: eating, shopping, and schmoozing. All those activities flowed together at the Beverly Wilshire at the “Hollywood Bag Ladies” annual luncheon to benefit Lupus L.A.’s lupus research charity. Event chairs Noah Alexander, Peri Ellen Berne, Marla Paxson, Beverly Sasson, and Kelly Stone put together the party for 650 guests—nearly all of them female—that began with a vast silent auction of new and used handbags donated by celebrities, including a whole table from actress Sharon Stone. Guests made their bids—using girly ballpoint pens festooned with big faux flowers—in a frenzy of activity before sitting down to lunch at tables decked with flower centerpieces in vessels made from plastic handbags. |
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 | | More than 650 guests bid on handbags in a silent auction benefiting lupus research at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. |
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 | | Celebrities like Courtney Cox Arquette donated handbags to the silent action. |
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 | | Plastic handbags served as vessels for floral centerpieces. |
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 | | Sharon Stone contributed to the silent auction and called the live auction—albeit awkwardly. |
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Following a lunch of gazpacho with crème fraiche, chicken breast, and warm apple tart, Stone took the stage to call a live auction that included a Fendi luggage set and Nicki Hilton modeling a tourmaline necklace by Maggie Ferrari Rowland. (Stone also recently called the auction before the Macy’s Passport fashion show, where she was more lucid in her impromptu personal storytelling; this time confusing rambling spawned much hushed speculative chitchat.) Afterward guests collected their silent auction purchases, along with a gift bag containing girly treats like cosmetics and the book Handbags: What Every Woman Should Know by Stephanie Pederson, who had also delivered a speech—on handbags, natch—before the meal.
—Alesandra Dubin
Posted 11.01.06
Photos: Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images (auction tables, Stone)
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