Thank heaven Tucker and Rich Enthoven had a couple of new air-conditioning units installed in their Preston Hollow estate. The Crystal Charity Ball Fashion Show patron party on Friday, September 8, was hot stuff.
As all types of luxury cars lined up in front of the Enthoven circular driveway, it was worth the wait.
Immediately upon approaching the front door, the 260 guests were greeted by event sponsor Chase’s #1 gal, Elaine Agather. Dang. That gal redefines the word “welcome.” She knew everyone and everyone reciprocated with hugs.
Next in the greeting line were 2016 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Christie Carter and Tucker. But the entry hall soon became so cozy with more than 250 guests each wanting their time with Elaine, Christie and Tucker.
Among the crowd were the most relaxed fellows — those husbands of past 10 BD-ers like Charles McEvoy, Jim Lee, Jack Pratt and Barry Andrews. Next most relieved were those gents (Key Coker, David Condon and Billy Esping), whose wives were making the 2016 BD list for a third and final time… Still another group that looked right at home among the BD set were the ladies who had been part of the CCB Hall of Fame Honorees like Elaine, Lana Andrews, Nancy Dedman, Annette Simmons, Tucean Webb and 2016’s Betsy Sowell and The Neiman’s team, very well represented with Mimi Sterling, Jeff Byron, Kevin Hurst, Malcolm Reuben and his bride CCB-er wunderkind Vinnie Reuben… Lynn McBee popped in after making the rounds at the Bush Center, where she was the keynote speaker at High-Tech High Heels Friendraiser, and checking in at the North Texas Food Bank’s Harvest… Among the sightings were so many mothers and daughters that one would have thought it was Mother’s Day with CCB Fashion Show Chair/2017 CCB Chair Pam Perella with her mom Carolyn Curl, hostess/10 BD-er Tucker and her mom Julie Ford, Tucean Webb and daughter Suzanne Webb and 10 Bestie Piper Wyatt with her mother Dixey Thornton and Piper’s sis Ginger Sanger Auer.
And speaking of mother/daughters, the family of the night arrived 45 minutes into the party — Venezuelan designer/2016 Neiman Marcus Awardee Carolina Herrera and her daughters Patricia Herrera Lansing and Carolina Herrera Baez. Just as the Herrera entourage approached the mansion, someone told the diminutive designer of meeting her at Neiman Marcus in the Houston Galleria back in the early 1980s. That was when the partnership of Herrera and NM was in its infancy.
The guest recalled how Herrera spent equal time with clients as well as trying on shoes in the NM salon. With that Herrera smiled and laughed, “Yes, I do love shoes. You remember?” Before an answer could be forthcoming, Herrera’s daughters laughed, “She loves shoes!” And the emphasis was on “loves.”
Then one of the Herrera team snapped a cellphone shot for the Herrera girls and they were off to the hundreds waiting their chance to meet two generations of designing women.
For lots more photos of the pretty patrons, check out the MySweetCharity Photo Gallery.