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Lana Marks
luncheon celebrating her 2005 Spring collection |
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Meanwhile downtown on West 21st Street, another birthday party was taking place, although palpably less politically or historically oriented, at Vella where designer Douglas Hannant and his partner Fred Anderson were hosting a party for Debbie Bancroft, who was celebrating her first half-century on the planet. This was not the first soiree for the newly streamlined birthday girl. A few days ago she and The Soprano’s Lorraine Bracco, also celebrated her 50th, were presented with a birthday cake with pink flowers on top by their pal, handbag designer Lana Marks. The luncheon also marked the debut of Lana’s Spring 2005 handbag collection. You see how New York always ends up being the city of commerce? The three ladies all donned outfits trimmed in black mink, designed by Lana herself. A little birthday dress-up, no? The girls blew out the candles on their cake and were serenaded by, among others, Gillian Hearst-Shaw, Tinsley Mortimer, Zani Fugleman, Celerie Kembel, Mini Mortimer, Annie Churchill, and Cindy Adams, of the New York Post and the only-in-New-York-Adamses. The handbag-shaped candle was crafted and customized by caterer Rhona Silver of the Huntington Town House who also designed the handbag-shaped floral arrangements inspired by Lana’s new collection that served as centerpieces in the blue-themed luncheon. You got that? While the Bancroft Birthday Girl watched her calories, thought of her newly refurbished waistline and held her breath, the rest of the ladies threw caution to the wind and lunched on caviar, foie gras, and salmon while models circulated through the Marks atelier on Madison Avenue prominently displaying further temptations. And if that weren’t enough, (and you know it’s never enough) in this roomful of brand new to-die-for handbags, the ladies were able to purchase the pieces they couldn’t resist, which benefited the Blue Harbor Foundation for research on bipolar disorder. The hottest items included the over-sized alligator travel tote in pastel pink and blue, and the silver Cleopatra clutch trimmed in black and white diamonds with a retail price of $100,000. A perfect impulse buy after all that caviar, no? Ka-ching, ka-ching, bling-bling and all that.
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