Fashion Show Attire!

Leslie Chihuly & Elizabeth Roberts

Last evening, I went to a Women's Cocktail Party at Elizabeth Robert's beautiful home in Washington Park.  The hardest part of the evening was figuring out what to wear since the invitation specified "Fashion Show Attire". 

Once appropriately(?) attired, Toni Hoffman and I carpooled to the party and when we arrived, it was absolutely pouring rain.  As we checked our coats in the coat tent outside and stowed our "un-fashion show attire" umbrellas, Elizabeth greeted us as she was busily in the midst of a photo shoot with tall, paper-thin models wearing her luxurous and stylish coats from her new clothing collection that she is launching called WrapHabillement.



Toni Hoffman & Cathi Hatch



Once inside, we were offered wine and gingertinis and enjoyed a delicious selection of passed hors d'oeuvres and devilled eggs.  My favorite was the devilled eggs topped with crisp bacon bits.  There was very loud music playing as the women sipped their cocktails and eyed the other women's "fashion show attire" outfits.  One of the most interesting was a young woman wearing a short cocktail dress with a leather aviator-style flapped ear hat.



Alexis Phelps & Pat Wallace

 It was fun to see and talk with many old and new friends including Betty Tong, Eliza Flug-Coburn, Janet Ketchum, Alexis Phelps, Barbara Cahill, Alicia Hatch, Connie Kravitz and her daughter, Christina, Aya Hamilton, Mary Snyder, Colleen Willoughby and her daughter, Anne, Lauren Selig, Pat Wallace, Detra Segar, Leslie Chihuly, Barbara Malone, Cynthia Stroum, Susan Adkins, and dozens of others.

Model wearing WrapHabillement coat

As Toni and I left the party, we perused the photo gallery of Elizabeth's development of her new business in a small anteroom in the front entry.  There were hundreds of photos pasted next to one another from floor to ceiling that included coat designs, steps in the process, meeting partners and potential vendors and all of the other numerous steps she has taken in building WrapHabillement.  The coats were gorgeous that the models were wearing so It will be fun to watch as her business takes off.