To celebrate Vera Wang’s 20 years in the fashion industry, Bloomingdale’s hosted an amazing retrospective of the designer. She discussed her history in the industry with Stephanie Winston, the Director of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center and she selected gowns from her archive to exhibit the evolution of her work.
Here are pictures of a number of celebrities and important people such as Angie Hamon, Jamie Tisch and others celebrating with Vera Wang!
Certainly, most of us would like to support worthy causes, but we don’t always know how to do so. One great way to support the Women’s Cancer Research Fund, co-founded by Kelly Chapman Meyer, Marion Laurie, Anne Douglas, Quinn Ezralow and Jamie Tisch, is to support their major donors.
One of their major donors is a skin and beauty company called philosophy. Their product lines include results-driven skin care, clean fragrances, bath and body lines and makeup. All of their products use cutting-edge internal research and development, manufacturing and distribution to provide customers with the best products available today. philosophy uses children’s pictures and only lowercase writing on purpose as a way to accentuate the simple pleasures in life.
The Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Women’s Cancer Research Fund work tirelessly to raise funds for cancer research and to raise awareness. The Women’s Cancer Research Fund, which is a program of EIF, was founded by Kelly Chapman Meyer, Anne Douglas, Quinn Ezralow, Marion Laurie and Jamie Tisch.
At their recent annual “An Unforgettable Evening” GRAMMY winners Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were presented with the 2010 Courage Award.
Faith Hill is a longtime supporter of EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund while Tim McGraw serves as the Honorary Chairman of the Tug McGraw Foundation. This foundation was created in honor of Tim’s father, Major League Baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. After being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Tug McGraw dedicated his life to enhance the lives of others with brain tumors.
EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund, started by Kelly Meyer, Anne Douglas, Quinn Ezralow, Marion Laurie and Jamie Tisch, collaborates at times with other cancer-fighting organizations. One such organization is the Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Nancy G. Brinker promised her sister, who was dying of cancer, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer. In 1982, she turned that promise into the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.
Today, this is the world’s largest breast cancer organization and the largest source of nonprofit funds that are dedicated to fighting breast cancer. The president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Hala Moddelmog said, “Susan G. Komen for the Cure collaborates with groups like the Entertainment Industry Foundation to support the EIF/WCRF Biomarker Discovery Project. We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars to find a cure. And we won’t stop until we find it. This is another important step.”
InnerSpark, the California State Summer School for the Arts, is celebrating its 24th anniversary session this summer. Started in 1985, this program is intended to offer gifted and talented youth the chance to enjoy intensive training in the arts and to work towards a career in the performing arts.
The month long training program for pre-professionals includes training in the visual and performing arts, creative writing, animation and film for high school age students. Many board of trustee members help to ensure that success of this program including Jamie Tisch.
These women worked together tirelessly to create the 3rd annual Spring Ball for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Co-chairs for the event included Shelley Carr, Tory Burch, Jamie Tisch, and Dee Dee Ricks, withHeather Leeds, president of The Society of MSKCC, in the center of the picture. The Ball was held on May 18th, 2010 at The Pierre Hotel.
The 3rd Annual Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was held at The Pierre Hotel on May 18, 2010. Co-chairs of this night to remember included Shelley Carr, Tory Burch, Jamie Tisch, and Dee Dee Ricks. The sponsor this year was David Yurman and the honoree was Dr. Charles L. Sawyers, chair of MSKCC’s Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program.
The Spring Ball raised money for a groundbreaking initiative focusing on human genomes.
