3 posts tagged "Bettina Prentice"
Around The World In 80 Bags
For the first time ever, Roger Vivier is debuting a collection of bags and shoes without the brand’s signature buckle: Prismick. Instead, the label’s creative director, Bruno Frisoni, used leather-on-suede appliqués in a variety of colors for a 3-D effect, a look that was inspired by his passion for art and contemporary architecture. To show off the Prismick collection, Roger Vivier asked stylish women around the globe, including Amanda Hearst (top), Fernanda Niven (middle), and Bettina Prentice (below) to pose with one of the new pieces in the setting of their choosing. (Hearst opted for the Brooklyn Bridge; Niven for an organic garden in Brooklyn; and Prentice at Haunch of Venison Gallery). The three will be on hand tonight in New York to launch the portrait series at Vivier’s Madison Avenue store. Their compatriots from farther afield will be on display, too: Photographers also shot Marta Ferri, Fatima Bhutto, Harumi Klossowski, India Mahdavi, and more in the U.K., Italy, France, and the Far East. Continue Reading “Around The World In 80 Bags” »
Power To The Pythons
Jack Vartanian hadn’t been thinking of snakes, per se, when he began working on his Spring ’11 jewelry collection, the designer explained last night at an unveiling dinner at Le Charlot on the Upper East Side. But when he happened on a Brazilian rock, striated with epidote, which he turned into a chunky, faceted cocktail ring (above left), the combination of colors got him thinking. The stone resembled nothing so much as an abstracted python skin, and from it, the 25-piece Python collection was born. (Only part of it was on display last night, due to a customs snafu—snakes on a plane, indeed.) The pieces pick up on the theme of serpents—they’re prevalent in his native Brazil, Vartanian explained, where they symbolize the cycle of nature, birth and rebirth—in sapphire, black quartz, and that epidote stone. Snake heads became rings twining around fingers (above right), cuffs, earrings, and pendants, and the faceted cocktail ring found expression as a pair of dangling earrings, too. They were met with a hiss of approval by dinner guests like Zani Gugelmann, Bettina Prentice, and co-hostess Kate Young. But Vartanian’s best spokesperson has always been his wife, the gorgeous Brazilian model Cassia Avila. She sparkled in the new collection, looking every bit the serpentine beauty herself.
Coalition Building In The Hamptons
While Lindsay Lohan turned heads at the HEAT benefit that our executive fashion director, Candy Pratts Price, co-chaired at Steven Klein’s place in Bridgehampton on Saturday night (click here for a slideshow of party pics), a twenty- and thirtysomething crowd gathered at Bettina Prentice’s Sagaponack family home for the Artwalk summer party to benefit the Coalition for the Homeless. “I wanted to put together something that people my age could take part in without it being unaffordable,” said the art public relations maven. With raffle tickets just $20 each and artwork prizes by emerging talents like Quentin Curry, Aziz + Cucher, and Torben Giehler, Prentice and her fellow co-chairs Liam McMullan, Peter Davis, and Kipton Cronkite didn’t have trouble convincing the crowd to part with their hard-earned cash. Prentice’s husband, Jamie, won the Aziz + Cucher (the crowd joked that the auction was rigged, but he joked right back that he’d bought 80 raffle tickets), and fashion week newcomer Timo Weiland, whose show is on September 16, went home with the Quentin Curry. The event raised $6,472 for the Coalition.