Fashion favorites Andre Leon Talley and Lynn Yaeger were among the 300 guests at the LOOT 2016 Opening Benefit hosted by The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD).
The evening’s events included first access for patrons to meet the LOOT 2016 artists and acquire their designs, a cocktail hour and reception, as well as a dinner honoring the 2016 LOOT Award recipients, jewelry designer and arts patron Joan Hornig, and fashion designer and philanthropist Kay Unger.
LOOT is the Museum of Arts and Design’s annual exhibition and sale of one-of-a-kind contemporary jewelry created by more than 40 of the world’s most innovative jewelry artists working in a range of materials including silver, pearls, and semiprecious stones, as well as more unconventional materials like glass, wood, hand-painted canvas, porcelain, papier mache, concrete, zinc, sequins, and feathers.
Internationally renowned fine jewelry designer Angela Cummings was the Honorary Chair. The evening’s Dinner Chairs were Michele Cohen and Marsy Mittlemann and LOOT’s Curator is Bryna Pomp.
Of course, guests wore their most fabulous jewelry.
Pictured:
Talley, Yaeger