Party Pages: the Picasso Gala played host to Kim Cattrall, an Eaton, some Jackmans and a Weston
Party Pages: the Picasso Gala played host to Kim Cattrall, an Eaton, some Jackmans and a Weston
By Fraser Abe | April 30, 2012
By Fraser Abe | 04/30/2012
The AGO celebrated its upcoming Picasso exhibit, featuring more than 150 pieces from the Musée National Picasso in Paris, with a $1,500-a-ticket gala ball (truly the best way to toast anything) in Baillie Court last Thursday. The reception area in Walker Court was decked out like an extravagant French salon, with purple hydrangeas and gaslight posts leading the way to bright yellow and green couches and a striking blue floor (presumably inspired by Picasso, but it was also a handy way to avoid any red wine stains on the tile). Guests like society types Cleophee Eaton, Trinity and Victoria Jackman, Ivan Fecan, Ben and Jessica Mulroney and Loretta Rogers, Holt Renfrew head honcho Mark Derbyshire, director Norman Jewison (and wife Lynne St. David) and Gluskin Sheff and Associates’ co-founder Ira Gluskin mingled amidst posing nude models and a three-piece jazz band. The biggest celeb of the night was Kim Cattrall (who recently starred in the Toronto stage production Private Lives) , and since she was the biggest star, people wanted to take her picture—a lot (seriously, kudos to you Cattrall for maintaining that smile all night). The photographer joked with Cattrall “smile, it’s in your contract” as she posed with countless guests. Not one to refuse food, we spotted Cattrall digging into the salt cod cakes and shrimp skewers and even partaking in the lemonade cocktails on hand (some people feign being dainty at these things and presumably go home and shame eat a bag of potato chips, but not her). Sadly though, we didn’t hear even one Samantha-esque utterance about the nudity in the room—would one “there’s more naked people here than at my last book club meeting” have been so difficult?
134832 Mime Kate Mior (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9343-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9343.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9343.jpg 656 437 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9343/ 1ts_9343 0 0
134833 TSO chair member Clara Mathur, Next Pathway Inc. CEO Chetan Mathur, Susan Cohen and AGO director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9353-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9353.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9353.jpg 624 415 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9353/ 1ts_9353 0 0
134834 National Bank Financial executive vice-president and managing director Cam di Prata with wife Alexandra di Prata (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134836 Armin Marwah, Scotiabank vice-chairman and chief operating officer Sabi Marwah and Gurbani Marwah (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9396-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9396.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9396.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9396/ 1ts_9396 0 0
134837 Gluskin Sheff and Associates co-founder and vice-chairman Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134839 Beatrice Fischer and arts patron and former Koffler Centre of the Arts president Dorothy Shoichet<br />
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134840 Philanthropist Roz Ivey (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9433-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9433.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9433.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9433/ 1ts_9433 0 0
134841 <em>Walrus</em> editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane and Walrus Foundation chair member Gretchen Ross (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134842 Musician Kevin Hearn, actress Kim Cattrall, Kate Alexander and Acting Up Stage Company’s David Daniels (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134843 Lida Gagliano with St. Joseph Communications executive chairman and CEO Tony Gagliano (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134844 Charton Hobbs regional marketing manager Matt Hehn and Denise Chang Kit (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9496-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9496.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9496.jpg 624 415 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9496/ 1ts_9496 0 0
134845 Artists Barbara Astman and Tony Baker (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134846 Artist Scott McFarland and philanthropist Cleophee Eaton (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134847 Producer David Hamilton and film director Deepa Mehta (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134848 President, CEO and director of RBC Gordon Nixon and wife Janet (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9536-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9536.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9536.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9536/ 1ts_9536 0 0
134850 Abbey Road Ventures president Andrew Barnicke and RBC’s global equities division managing director Lara Zink (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9546-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9546.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9546.jpg 624 415 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9546/ 1ts_9546 0 0
134851 Urban development marketing manager Krystal Koo (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9570-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9570.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9570.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9570/ 1ts_9570 0 0
134852 Director Norman Jewison and wife Lynne St. David (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134853 Mandeville corporation partner Marcus Doyle, archaeologist Trinity Jackman and Markus Anderson (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134854 Photographer Anne-Marie Canning and Erin Canning (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134855 Writer Victoria Webster, Clark and Faria gallerist Jane Halverson and philanthropist Victoria Jackman (Image: Tom Sandler)<br />
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134856 Holt Renfrew vice-president of sales and marketing Alix Box (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9766-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9766.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9766.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9766/ 1ts_9766 0 0
134857 Holt Renfrew vice-president of strategy and planning Kathy Weston (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9769-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9769.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9769.jpg 624 938 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9769/ 1ts_9769 0 0
134858 Stephen Delaney, philanthropist Margaret McCain and RBC Dominion Securities vice-president Gary Ursell (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9788-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9788.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9788.jpg 624 415 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9788/ 1ts_9788 0 0
134859 Joso’s co-owner Leo Spralja and his wife Shirley (Image: Tom Sandler) Picasso Gala at the AGO https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9795-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9795.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1TS_9795.jpg 624 415 [] https://torontolife.com/city/picasso-gala-ago-2012/slide/1ts_9795/ 1ts_9795 0 0
Margaret McCain – those colours don’t work together at all. Krystal Koo – love that dress. You look beautiful.
wtf. even the room looks straight out of 80’s england. a (very) few decent ‘looks’ going on but the the birds in the glasses are top. how cool are they.
I rarely, if ever, read these pieces – I just look at the pictures, but I must say that I started to read this one and finished it. Wow! Kudos to whoever wrote it. Cute, witty and HONEST! Love the part about going home in shame and woofing down potato chips, vs. Kim Cattrall, or the Samantha line. Well done! Hate being too catty ;), but what’s with the gigantic pleated pants and patterned, polyester “blouse” on our Canadian darling, Kim Cattrall??? It doesn’t even qualify for suburban soccer mom, it’s more rural spinster cousin… so no necessary… Take a page from Ellen Barkin, our generation’s chic-est and most stylish 50-something.
I agree with Meow Meow. This piece was actually entertaining. Sorry the same can not be said about some people’s fashion sense. Sorry, but boyish frames do not suit a dress that is meant to accentuate womanly curves. Love the ladies with the glasses though. :-)