| EVENT REPORT 07.14.09 4:16 PM |
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Target Courts Families at the High Line's First Street Festival
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Crowds waiting to gain entry to the crowded High Line Park Sunday afternoon had more than enough to keep them distracted right on Gansevoort Street. Target sponsored a street fair in honor of the newly opened structure, bringing in musicians, performers, and the world's largest lemonade stand.
Target's community relations team worked with Friends of the High Line and New York production firm Usual Suspects to throw the daylong party on one of the city's first clear-skied Sundays of the summer. In addition to officially celebrating last month's opening of the structure to the public, the festivities also marked the tenth anniversary of Friends of the High Line and the 75th anniversary of the elevated track itself.
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| EVENT REPORT 06.16.09 3:20 PM |
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Friends of the High Line Toast Park Opening With Balloon-Filled Benefit
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 | Friends of the High Line's inflatable decor
Photo: Roger Dong for BizBash |
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Yesterday as the fashion set—designers, industry heavies like Fern Mallis, and celebrities—whiled away the night uptown at Alice Tully Hall for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, another crowd descended on Pier Sixty for the Friends of the High Line summer benefit. The gala dinner, a fund-raiser now in its ninth year, represented a significant moment for the Friends of the High Line: Last Tuesday, the once-derelict elevated railroad in west Chelsea finally opened as a public park, the culmination of a decade worth of grass-roots campaigning.
To commemorate the occasion, the nonprofit honored board members Edward Norton and Lisa Marie and Philip Falcone and hosted a Calvin Klein Collection-sponsored after-party on the High Line itself, the first major event to be held in the park. For the 1,000 guests, including Danny DeVito, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Debbie Harry, and other local philanthropists, the organization's co-founders, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, looked to Desi Santiago to dress the Chelsea Piers space with appropriately celebratory decor. (Board member Bronson van Wyck had designed the event for the past eight years, but declined to return to that post this go-round. He is expected back next year.)
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| NEWS 06.02.09 4:04 PM |
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Calvin Klein Plans Second High Line Party
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Calvin Klein Inc. is planning a second High Line party after first offering guests at its 40th anniversary party a sneak preview of the new public space in 2008, WWD reported this morning. The event will serve as the official after-party to the High Line’s opening summer benefit on June 15.
Requests for details weren't immediately answered by representatives from Calvin Klein, but executive vice president of global communications Malcolm Carfrae cited the park's "visionary, contemporary concept" as the brand's motivation for the partnership in an interview with WWD. The "First Party on the High Line," as it's being called, will follow the High Line's 6 p.m. gala at Pier Sixty and cover the soon-to-be-opened park between Gansevoort and 20th Streets.
Incidentally, June 15 is also the date of the 2009 Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at its new home at Alice Tully Hall, making that Monday night a busy one for the events' overlapping guests. —Michael O'Connell
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Calvin Klein, Friends of the High Line, High Line, Council of Fashion Designers of America, C.F.D.A. Awards |
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.16.09 8:00 AM |
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New York's Top Benefits 2009
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 | Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Kids for Kids Benefit
Photo: Joshua Cicerone |
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1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit
This fashion-centric party will be even more so on May 4, when it celebrates the Met’s new exhibit “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion.” The 2008 benefit attracted Tom Cruise, George Clooney, and Scarlett Johansson. Marc Jacobs is this year’s honorary chair, along with co-chairs Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake, and Vogue’s Anna Wintour.
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New York Top 100 Events, Robin Hood Foundation, Frick Collection, Central Park Conservancy, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Friends of the High Line, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Municipal Art Society |
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| GUEST QUESTIONS 09.08.08 12:51 PM |
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Calvin Klein's 40th Impresses With Strict Minimalism, Access to High Line
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 | The site of Calvin Klein's anniversary party
Photo: Vincent Crossley |
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Last night on the far west side, Calvin Klein hosted one of Fashion Week's most-hyped events, celebrating the label's 40th anniversary. A temporary pavilion designed by architect John Pawson was built specially for the affair next to the High Line, a one-and-a-half-mile-long abandoned railway being transformed into a public park. The guests, who left the party around midnight, wore black and white clothing and hailed from the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries. Most were completely surprised by the magnitude of the event, and some even plucked white roses to take home as a memento.
A longtime supporter of the nonprofit organization Friends of the High Line, Calvin Klein dropped $3 million for the party, a sum The Daily News reported also includes a donation to the development of the elevated oasis. We asked guests whether the birthday bash was indeed the biggest event of the season.
“When they donate millions of dollars and erect the great wall of Calvin Klein, it’s pretty amazing.”
—Molly Sims, actress and model
“The food was amazing. I loved the tuna tartare, and there was a little ginger cookie that was delicious.”
—Dani Stahl, accessories director, Nylon magazine
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| EVENT REPORT 06.27.08 12:17 PM |
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High Line Benefit Serves Family-Style Dinner in Three Colorful Spaces
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 | The gold room at the Friends of the High Line summer benefit
Photo: Emily Gilbert for BizBash |
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Since 2001, Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit organization that spearheads the effort to transform an mile-long-plus stretch of abandoned elevated train tracks on the city's West Side into a public park, has staged an annual benefit to raise funds for the civic project. As was the case in 2007, the evening included cocktails at the IAC Building and dinner at the David Zwirner Gallery across the street, but this time the event featured at least one major change: The High Line will be open for visitors before the year ends. "It's beyond my wildest dreams," said Joshua David, co-founder of the organization.
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| EVENT REPORT 06.21.07 6:23 PM |
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Friends of the High Line Holds Multicolor, Multispace Benefit
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 | The green room at the Friends of the High Line's summer benefit dinner.
Photo: BizBash |
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In 1999, Joshua David and Robert Hammond formed the nonprofit Friends of the High Line to save the stretch of elevated train tracks running from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street. And on Wednesday night, 1,100 supporters of the now-chic organization, which will celebrate the opening of the first section of the urban-renewal effort next summer, showed up at the group's seventh annual summer benefit.
Once run out of the two founders' apartments, Friends of the High Line has grown exponentially. (It now employs a full-time staff of 11.) The organization’s biggest annual fund-raiser took place at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC Building, thanks to help from key High Line supporters Barry Diller (IAC's chairman and C.E.O.) and his wife, Diane von Furstenberg. The honorees were founding board member Philip Aarons and his wife, Shelly Fox Aarons.
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