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SOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING
Saks Fifth Avenue Kicks Off
For
Cancer Center Gala
By Roger Webster
 RAFF
Jewelers and Saks Fifth Avenue rolled out the red carpet at the
posh New York department store for a Champagne Veuve Clicquot
reception for the gala 15th Annual Preview Party for the
International Fine Arts and Antique Dealers Show benefiting the
Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
In
attendance were newly elected Society president Coco Kopelman
with her husband Arie Kopelman, who exclaimed, “It's the
first time I’ve been dragged to anything. For years I've been
dragging her.”
Others
admiring the fabulous baubles in the showcases were co-chairs Jamee
Gregory and Leslie Jones, Graff president Henri
Barguirdjian, Saks vice chairman Steven Sadove
and wife Karin, Susan Burke, Daisy Soros, Jennifer Creel, Karen
LeFrak, Whitney Fairchild, Debbie
Bancroft, Chris Meigher, Dr. Annette Rickel,
R. Couri Hay, Hilary Dick, Courtney Arnot, Susan Bodnar,
Sallie Giordano, Dennis Basso and Michael Cominotto, Anne
Grauso, Stephanie Griswold, Andrew and Leslie Heaney,
Jacques Nordeman, Alexis Waller, Mary Davidson, Tom Guinzburg,
Jackie Weld, Clelia and Tom Zacharias,
and interior
designers Mark Epstein and Joanne de Guardiola.
Also
Alexandra Lind Rose, Jill Tanen, Suzie Fairchild, Christina
Oxenberg, Tory Burch, Andrea Stark, New York Times scribe Corey
Kilgannon, Bettina Zilkha, Michele Gerber Klein, Fabian Basabe and
the beautiful daughter of Patty Hearst, Gillian
Hearst-Shaw, who glowed when she tried on a Graff 29-carat,
heart-shaped diamond necklace worth $5 million.
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