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Urban Chic mixes fashion, fundraising
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The city’s social season officially got under way Thursday night as hundreds of Atlanta’s glitterati assembled at Urban Chic ‘07 inside Fever nightclub to survey the latest fashions, raise money for AID Atlanta and dish. (Click here to see photos from the Urban Chic event.)
99X’s Leslie Fram, a co-owner of participating boutique 4Bags told us many small high-end shops are banding together to combat the recent rash of burglaries occurring around the city.
“The most disturbing aspect of this is that [the thieves] are batting a thousand so far and they’re brazen enough to break in in the middle of the day.”
Fram says businesses have added more security and cameras as a precaution.
Still, the recent robbery of a store’s worth of designer jeans from their shop didn’t dissuade the charitable contributions of P Valentine boutique owners Tracy Valentine and Sherlita Patton (Patton’s hubby, Big Boi of OutKast even turned out for support).
VIP reception attendees daintily dangled designer necklaces — specially created for the event by Goldwasser Signature Jewelry — to bartenders (the accessories translated into free drinks, you see). Others happily noshed on nibbles caterer Dennis Dean was busy whipping up.
To his considerable credit, Ted’s Montana Grill co-owner George McKerrow Jr. didn’t use a piece of silent auction sports equipment on display to brain us when he spotted us (his wife, Ginair is a devoted member of Urban Chic’s host committee).
While he cheerfully declined to discuss his business partner Ted Turner’s personal relationship with critically acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Dewberry (the romance was made public this week via a dubious e-mail sent by the writer’s ex), McKerrow did have plenty of praise for Dewberry.
“We like her very, very much and she’s incredibly talented,” McKerrow said. “I’m hopeful that more people will be introduced to her work.”
Other notable attendees included: Dave FM’s Mara Davis, Atlanta attorney Mark Trigg and his wife Darlene, photographer Harriet Leibowitz, Project Open Hand’s Christopher Nave, and jewelry designer Mark Edge.
Thanks to co-chair and Blue Med Spa co-owner John Stupka, the evening also boasted its own Tony Award-winning legend, Jennifer Holliday. The powerhouse vocalist was a customer at the spa during her recent run at the Fox Theatre.
On the conclusion of playing her signature role of Effie for the final time in last month’s production of “Dreamgirls” at the Fox, Holliday told us: “I think I’m finally ready to let Effie go. If not entirely, at least to allow her and the show to move forward to the future. I was so blessed and grateful to be able to do the show here one last time as well. Atlanta holds such an emotional connection for me for this show.”
After losing many of the Broadway production’s original cast members and creative team to AIDS in the 1980s, the actress said she was only too happy to turn out to support the charity.
Downstairs on the catwalk, the fashionably attired crowd got an advance peek at new looks provided by Bill Hallman, Deka, Fab’rik, Merci Woman, Sage, Sandpiper, T. Boutique and others.
Runway fashion show producer Randi Layne added edge to the evening by including “real life”-sized models into the show.
Each time the gals in gorgeous plus-size frocks came down the runway, the entire venue burst into applause.
Their malnourished counterparts, however, drew a more subdued response from the crowd.
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