Gucci-Backed Benefit Has Boxy Candles

There were two Gucci groups at the International Neuroscience Foundation benefit at Blvd: There was the Gucci Group, the fashion conglomerate that sponsored the fund-raiser and used to employ Tom Ford. And there was the group of swells who showed up decked out in Ford-designed threads. Both crowds were in full force at the new NoLIta nightclub to raise funds for patients with brain and spinal tumors.
Produced by Emilia Fanjul Communications, the event featured decor by Bronson van Wyck of Van Wyck & Van Wyck, who accented the lounge's elegant interior with large rectangular pillar candles and groupings of white and green flowers in low, square wood vases. White flower petals filled the hollow top layer of low Lucite cocktail tables in the all-white V.I.P. area., and videos of Gucci runway shows played on flat-screen monitors throughout the room. Tall cherry blossom branches decorated the silent auction area.

—Suzanne Ito