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This has certainly been a week, last night I was invited by the Accessories Council of New York to attend the ACE Awards for 2010 and I was in such great company, from Tiffanys & Co to Cole Haan and Macy’s. The stars in the fashion world came out to play. I spent all day with my Glam Squad, aka Gregg Hubbard the famous New York Make up artist to stars such as Tory Burch and the Celebrity Apprentice. and my hairdresser Monique came to give me the best blow out ever.

Wearing Judith Leiber

I was totally honored to be wearing a very expensive piece of jewelry by Judith Leiber, who very kindly loaned me the necklace in the picture. The event was held at Cipriani’s on 42nd Street, believe it or not this used to be the home of a bank. It is a really stunning venue I have to say I so love going there, my only drawback is that the Internet service is limited. The food was super, I had scallops with asparagus followed by lamb cutlets which were like butter. I gave the desert a miss as I am not keen on Lemon meringue pie so I saved myself for the Godiva chocolates.

Before the awards ceremony started I was lucky enough to be photographed with a super guy, Kanye West, I have to say in all honesty that he was really a kind and gentle man, I may be a bit bias as he said I looked beautiful. When he accepted his award he spoke from the heart accepted that he was not perfect ,that he had made some mistakes but that he was just a regular guy. I would not agree, he is a very special person and deserved the award for Style.

Kanye West and Anne Agoren

I also met Maria Sharapova, who I would like to say forgot to smile in this picture, I guess that is her prerogative, so let’s just say she is very tall !

Maria Sharapova & Anne Agoren

Everybody went home with a goodie bag full of luxurious things, I was totally exhausted so when I finally managed to find my driver, I threw off my Gianfranco Ferre shoes in the car, snuggled on the warm back seat until I got home to my lovely izzi. I am hoping that the parties this week are at an end and I now look forward to a quiet evening at home in my PJ’s…. oh except tomorrow as it is my wedding anniversary…. Get Gregg on the phone…

I was flicking through my  Facebook page today and I came across this article which was posted by a friend of mine Rhonda Ryan who is also on twitter by the way @IBelieveInStyle:

You have to see this artist! I just found her blog on Yahoo Shine…. Robin Barcus Slonina is an installation and performance artist working on a project called “States of Dress”.  She is touring the country, creating dresses that represent one of the states. Her goal is to create a sculpture for each of the 50 states.  And on her blog States of Dress, you can see pictures and read all about her design process.  I love this project!

Well I had to just take a peek Rhonda at what you were talking about as I just love weird dress designs and this has to be one of them, I cannot wait to see what comes next.

Robin Barcus Garbage Dress

So if that didn’t grab you as a must have creation, take a look at this next creation which I found in the Basement of Macy’s. I guess it is to celebrate Halloween or Harvest Festival it reminds me of being a child and seeing Aunt Sally on TV, do you remember her she was the scarecrow that came to life? So on the basis of what you have just seen let’s just say I am still looking for my perfect dress to attend the ACE awards next week.

This reminds me of Aunt Sally

Wednesday saw the Lord & Taylor fund raiser for Haiti and izzi bag

donated a lovely handbag to the auction.

Atlantis Suede Bag

I think it is a really worthy cause to be supporting and izzi took part in the raffle and please see the out come below,

A few Raffle Prizes

Good friend Linda Franklin and author of the book ‘Don’t ever call me Ma’am’ had to help izzi and I carry the packages to the Car.When we got home see what this actually turned into. I think I can honestly say I have never seen so many packages with my name on them. Not even at Christmas, it was a bit like a Winter Wonderland.

Which Bag shall I open next?

and then Finally here are the raffle prizes that were inside the packages.

Raffle Prizes - see anything you would like?

So if you see anything you might like let me know because I feel that 10 watches is a little bit much for anyone, i think that we have Birthdays and Christmas covered forever. So any relatives reading my blog choose and let me know what you would like from Nine west, Cole Haan, Jil Sander, Valentino Perfume, Carlos Falchi, BCBG,Swarovski,Kenneth Jay Lane,Adrienne Vittadini, Skagen and Lord & Taylor.

A great Night was had by all and I am so happy to have been part of such a wonderful fund raiser and thank you to my lovely husband who bought the raffle tickets to help support the people of Haiti, God bless you.