Lorry Newhouse
DIVAS Shop for Opera Shop
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Thursday, May 20th: DIVAS Shop for Opera is one of the most highly anticipated shopping event of the year. The 5th Annual DIVAS Shop for Opera held at the tremendous and diva-divine loft space- 82 Mercer, offers exclusive designer, vintage and collectible clothing, accessories and home furnishings.
Event Co-Chairs: Vogue Editor, Hamish Bowles; Sex & the City stylist, Patricia Field; 1st Dibs founder Michael Bruno; novelist and tv journalist Elsa Klensch; fashion couple: Ruben and Isabel Toledo and opera lover Lorry Newhouse. Young Patrons Co-Chairs: jewelry designer Pamela Love; fashion designer Rebecca Taylor; filmmaker and style-setter Arden Wohl, opera fan, Ashley Melone and New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel.
The Divas Co-Chairs certainly brought it up a notch this year. The choice to hold the shopping event in Soho and at 82 Mercer is absolutely Diva approved; 5000 times a better locale and probably 5000 times a larger venue than that of last year's pop-up shop on the UES. Not to mention that several designer pieces were donated by a certain Fashion Editor of a certain fashion magazine...
As a special feature this year, 25 designers have created sketches inspired by a New York City Opera character. Participating designers include; Narciso Rodriguez, Carolina Herrera, Christian Lacroix, Rossella Jardini for Moschino, Jason Wu, Ruben Toledo, Victoria Bartlett, threeASFOUR designers Adi, Ange and Gabi, Roland Nivelais, Thuy Diep, Austin Scarlett, Sylvia Heisel, Stephen Burrows and James Coviello.
All proceeds for the evening will support the design and creation of costumes or new productions at New York City Opera.
SEEN: Rudin DeWoody, Amy Fine Collins, Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, Lucy Sykes, Real Housewife Alex McCord, Simon van Kempen, Robert Verdi and many more.
Visit the New York City Opera THRIFT SHOP 7 days a week at 222 East 23rd Street, NY, NY
*All photos courtesy of PMc
*photo 1: Lorry Newhouse and Jean-Philippe Delhomme
*image 2: "Brunhilde" by Isabelle and Ruben Toledo
New York City Opera: Spring Gala and Opera Ball 2010
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Last night at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, Manhattan's elite celebrated New York City Opera's opening of its 2010 Spring Season. The White Tie Spring Gala and Opera Ball featured the delightful production of Emmanuel Chabrier's ingenious L'Etoile followed by a grand evening dinner and waltzing to music performed by the New York City Opera Orchestra on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater.
L'Etoile is a lively opera bouffe about disguises and mistaken identities exemplified by City Opera Director, Mark Lamos. Lamos creates a magnificent hi-fi production, complimented by conductor Emmanuel Plasson, which breathes effervescent life into Chambrier's witty work.
The Spring Gala honored City Opera's Chairman, Susan L. Baker, for her outstanding dedication to the company in this role, for her strong leadership through challenging times, and for her great friendship to the Opera as both ardent advocate and generous supporter.
All proceeds from the Spring Gala support New York City Opera's Mission: to create innovative productions of new and classic work, reach a wide audience with affordable ticket prices, and bring music into the lives of thousands of students each year through its acclaimed education programs in New York City public schools.
*photos by John F. McCarthy for Scene B Seen
The Princes Ball: Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala to Benefit Lifeline
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Friday, February 5th, 2010- The Princes Ball Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala to benefit The Lifeline Humanitarian Organization, took place in the presence of TRH Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia at Cipriani's 42nd St.
The gorgeous masked guests mingled, noshed, and danced to the beats of Rio. Flown in just for the fete from Brazil- DJ Miller Cruz and Drama's Samba School & Rhythms with Banda Brazil Beleza performed by Marianne Ebert.
HRH Crown Princess Katherine took the stage to thank all the patrons and committee members on behalf of Lifeline, then gathered the rest of the Royal Family to cut the cake. Following a champagne toast to a fantastic evening, the stunning DJ Donna de la Cruz spun a stellar set, keeping the party going... and going...
*All Photos by Nick McGlynn
New York City Opera's DIVAS Shop for Opera 2009
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On June 24th, New York City Opera and City Opera Thrift Shop held their 4th annual DIVAS Shop for Opera at City Opera’s Pop Up Shop on Madison Avenue.
Lydia Fenet, Gillian Miniter, Senior Vice President of IMG Fashion Fern Mallis, Alex McCord, Simon van Kempen, Amy Fine Collins, Dame Lori Sutherland, and Designer Austin Scarlett, were among the guests enjoying cocktails and music, while skimming the racks of a “diverse selection of alluring merchandise from today’s most fashion forward designers- at 
jaw-dropping discounts.”
Merchandise included designs by Alice + Olivia, Carmen Marc Valvo, Twinkle by Wenlan, Tamsen Z by Ann Ziff, Oscar de la Renta, Nanette Lepore, Rubin Singer, Chado Ralph Rucci, Tuleh, DKNY, Luca Luca, Roberta Freymann, and many more.
This fab event, co-chaired by Patricia Field, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Faith Hope Consolo, Rebecca Taylor, Elsa Klensch, and Lorry Newhouse, helps fund the design and creation of new costumes for New York City Opera.
*Photo 1 courtesy of PMc by Jonathan Zeigler: Lauren Estigarribia and Rubin Singer
*Photo 2 courtesy of PMc by Jonathan Zeigler: Lorry Newhouse, Lauren Bridgeman, and Amy Fine Collins
