{"id":651,"date":"2016-06-09T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:32:59","slug":"annual-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/2016\/06\/09\/annual-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Basso, John and Laura Pomerantz, and QVC Honored at Annual Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of the FIT year is always our annual gala, and this year it\u00a0was \u00a0especially so. That we raised $1.7 million certainly was part of what made it so\u00a0special. But I think that this year our gala just had a kind of magical ambiance. It was\u00a0held at the Plaza Hotel and the room, beautifully lit and decorated, positively glowed.<\/p>\n

Added to that was a warmth and cheer that radiated throughout the room, owing, I think,\u00a0to our illustrious honorees: Dennis Basso, John and Laura Pomerantz, and QVC\u2014all of\u00a0whom are part of the FIT family. Dennis is an FIT alumnus; John and Laura are among\u00a0the college\u2019s most devoted long-term supporters, and QVC, the home shopping pioneer,\u00a0is one of our newest partners. Mike George, QVC\u2019s president and CEO accepted the\u00a0\u201cRetailer of the Year\u201d award and it was a pleasure welcoming him and his company into\u00a0the FIT family. It was a pleasure, too, seeing so many of our guests looking so glamorous\u00a0in gowns by Dennis Basso! I will let these photos\u00a0tell the rest of the story!<\/p>\n

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Dennis Basso, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, Hilary Rhoda <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Mike George and Jill Martin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Deborah <\/a>
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Dr. Joyce F. Brown <\/div> <\/div>
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Paris Hilton, Dennis Basso, Nicky Hilton <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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FIT Alumnus and Designer Dennis Basso, President Brown, FIT Board Chair Liz Peek, and Trustee Yaz Hernandez <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of the FIT year is always our annual gala, and this year it\u00a0was \u00a0especially so. That we raised $1.7 million certainly was part of what made it so\u00a0special. But I think that this year our gala just had a kind of magical ambiance. It was\u00a0held at the Plaza Hotel and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9545],"tags":[242,35540,19557],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-alumni","tag-fit-gala","tag-industry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ycDS-av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}