The social swans are strapping their megabucks jewels around their necks, wrists and skinny fingers for The School of American Ballet’s benefit, the 2013 Winter Ball: A Night in the Far East, the theme of which is inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels’s collection Le Bal Oriental—which was also the name of a party held Read More
“Honestly, there is nothing like it,” Dianna DiMenna told The Observer Monday evening. “The beauty, the discipline, the lineage, the heritage, the history!” she gushed. While Ms. DiMenna’s lavish words may have applied to a great many ventures beloved by the city’s gentility, she was in fact referring to ballet. As the evening’s prima, she greeted guests in the marbled lobby of the David H. Koch Theater with that particular hostess’s élan, kissing elegant consoeurs and their bow-tied husbands. The decorous crowd had gathered for the School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball, and there was surely no shortage of pomp or circumstance. Read More
