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East Coast Ass Flowers

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its 2009 Corporate Benefit on Wednesday night. The honorees were Michael J. Kowalksi, chairman and chief executive of some non-WendyB jewelry place, and my dear friend, Ambassador Carl Spielvogel. (Carl is married to the gorgeous Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, previously mentioned here.) I wore the beautiful Zang Toi gown that I wore in February to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. I figured that the East Coast needed to see the ass-flower gown; the West Coast can’t have all the fun!

Before heading out

We got to view the new American Wing, which was recently reopened with Michelle Obama there to cut the ribbon. At dinner, I had a lovely time talking to my tablemate, Ralph Appelbaum, who designs (non-art) museums, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Planetarium here in New York.

Ass flowers at the museum

MrB and his new pet

I loved that the charming security guard we met on the way out was named Aramis, after one of the three Musketeers.

Aramis kindly posed for a picture

Congratulations again to Ambassador Spielvogel!

UPDATED TO ADD: For those who were wondering, I was wearing the gold Louis Vuitton shoes that Jennine modeled in this post.

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  1. Love the “ass flowers” hehe Gorgeous dress and love the colour

  2. wowzas you’re a tried and true new yorker!! So cool that you get to go to A list events. Beautiful dress and ass flowers BTW!

  3. Wow! You look so gorg! That dress is def. stunning and love the color.. and the ass flower! Really original.

    xo, Becs

  6. Increase your word power: ass flowers – Exclamation as in “oh ass flowers! I forgot to put the champagne in the fridge, or “I work out every day” – “Ass flowers you do you fat bastard”

    xx

  9. That dress is gorgeous and you look fabulous in it. You always look like you’re having such a good time in these photos, I love it!

  11. the color of your dress is gorgeous – and the ass flowers are pretty briliant and lovely as well. lovely!

  13. Wendy, how did the ass flowers go over, though!!!! This is my favorite dress of all time, btw, and I want Mr. B to hire the MOST amazing painter to paint you in it and hang you over the mantel from here to eternity. I'd have posed with Aramis too. I do stuff like that.

    My word verfification says, "AS es fri!" You givin' it away in that dress?

  17. I love the idea of this dress, and it’s hilarious that you call them ass flowers. Because I suppose that’s what they are! I love that first picture of you– you look so happy and bouyant!

  19. Gorgeous, this dress and you outshone most of what was seen at the Costume “muse” gala! Particularly love the individual statue shot.
    And hmm, Aramis, perhaps I should be delving into the classics for names. Although I bet d’Artagnan will go the way of Cher with my husband.

  22. I find this too elegant to call ass flower, perhaps “les fleurs des derriere”? Gorgeous!

  25. What a pretty dress! I like how in the front it's all demure and then in the back it's HELLO! ass flowers! lol

  26. Oh, WendyB, what a rug you cut, honey! That pose beside the sculpture is so fine. Mr. B looks splendid, too. I'm so happy that y'all had a good time!

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