
Givenchy Couture Dress Price
On Thursday, bargain abode Phillips de Pury captivated a clandestine ladies' bologna for thirty advantageous women to examination the couture dresses to be auctioned off tonight as allotment of Swarovski's alms bargain "22 Ways to Say Black." 100% of the gain will account the American Blight Society and La Ligue Nationale Contre le Blight in France. The fundraiser was the abstraction of Lila Thibault, Swarovski's beauteous bolt manager, whose best acquaintance was stricken with breast blight two years ago. Thibault encouraged designers to actualize bold, assured dresses in black, anniversary dress actuality a absolutely different conception by some of the best admired names in the industry -- Alberta Ferretti, Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Sonia Rykiel and Valentino, to name a few.
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"This bargain has been in the works for over eighteen months" said Phillips' Director of Contemporary Art, Aileen Agopian, during her aperture animadversion over cafeteria of vegetable terrine and adolescent tartar. Captivated in a bottle amid allowance overlooking the Highline with a distinct sparsely busy table dotted with Swarovski crystals and accomplished china, the army was absolutely art abundant and fabricated up of the blazon of women who could and would absorb $3,000 on a different dress by Diane Von Furstenburg.
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Art adviser BJ Topal zeroed in on acquaintance Phillip Lim's sleeveless about-face in ivory duchesse glassy covered in collage of 1,800 Swarovski crystals. Lim is a acquaintance and applicant of Topal, who has been allowance him body an art accumulating over the accomplished two years. "Its not aloof because I adulation him. The dress is stunning," said Topal as a army of women aggregate to adore it. Fashionista Sharon Copeland Horowitz gushed over the continued sleeved Valentino conception while art beneficiary Julie Bernstein commented Donna Karan and the circuitous ruching on the Vivienne Westwood dress. Bargain estimates ambit from $1,000 to $22,000, but these were not the affectionate of prices that alarm abroad the day's immaculately dressed attendees.
Despite accepting abounding about 25 shows for Appearance Week, T Magazine's celebrated Style Director Sandra Ballentine was absorbing and upbeat as guests brindled her with questions about Spring 2011 collections. Asked which dresses on appearance she was best admiring, she accepted to appetent those advised by Ricardo Tischi for Givenchy, Lanvin, Marios Schwab and Martin Grant.
["582"]Horowitz, cutting a text-based Cindy Sherman for Balenciaga dress, complimented Swarovski on their proweress for authoritative couture accessible. "With couture fashion, as with art, you charge to apperceive addition to accept admission to these items," said Horowitz, a babysitter and art adviser who has been in the business for added than twenty years. "As with a gallery, there are circuitous cat-and-mouse lists for items fabricated by appearance houses in acutely bound abundance and of the accomplished quality. What an bargain abode does is added autonomous -- they put coveted pieces up for bargain to whomever can allow them. This is a attenuate opportunity."
["582"]Tonight's auction, which begins with affair at 7 p.m. at Phillips de Pury, is captivated beneath the aerial advocacy of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and will draw some of the world's best fashionable women, including Oscar-winning extra Halle Berry. Participating designers accommodate Lanvin by Alber Elbaz, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Azzaro, Alexis Mabille, Gaspard Yurkievich, Martin Grant, Valentino, Giorgio Armani Prive, Fendi, Alberta Ferretti, Missoni, Gianfranco Ferre, Vivienne Westwood, Boudicca, Mario Schwab, Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg, Phillip Lim, Catherine Malandrino and Thakoon.
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