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    Dress to Impress

    Stylish socialites turn out for start of Dallas' fall society season

    Lindsey Wilson
    Sep 17, 2018 | 6:00 am

    It was TGIF at the Neiman Marcus flagship store downtown, where Dallas' most fashionable ladies and gents gathered to celebrate the end of the week and the official start of fall society season with the annual Crystal Charity Ball 10 Best Dressed Fashion Show and Luncheon.

    Flutes of champagne and glasses of rosé were lifted as attendees toasted this years's honorees and featured designer, Oscar de la Renta, whose 2018 resort collection was presented in a fashion show following the cocktail hour. Attendees could stop and shop at a mini boutique set up right outside the fashion show (though several were already wearing the designer's latest couture).

    Former Hall of Fame honoree and longtime Crystal Charity advocate Norma Hunt served as this year's honorary chairman — only the sixth time in the luncheon's 44-year history where that position has been made available. Hunt joins previous honorary chairmen Margaret Hill (1995), Gene Jones (2001), Nancy Dedman (2009), Annette Simmons (2011), and Ruth Altshuler (2015). Robyn Conlon was the recipient of this year's Hall of Fame award.

    2018's 10 best dressed — Anita Arnold, Delilah Boyd, Lisa Cooley, Jennifer Dix, Tucker Enthoven, Cate Ford, Cara French, Amy Hegi, Kimberly Whitman, and Piper Wyatt — mingled before the luncheon and admired de la Renta's latest formal looks, which were also displayed on models perched around the beauty department.

    The luncheon recognizes women who not only have a serious sense of style, but who are also deeply committed to their community. The highly anticipated — and sold out — affair is one of the many glittering events hosted by the independent nonprofit, which raises funds to aid, support, and make contributions to Dallas children's charities. The season's grand finale, the Crystal Charity Ball (chaired this year by Claire Emanuelson) will be held on December 1 at the Hilton Anatole.

    Since 1952, the CCB ladies have provided more than $143 million for more than 100 children's charities.

    Charity selection chair Patty Leyendecker recently announced the eight nonprofits that will be the recipients of — yes, this number is real — $6,501,105. They are: After-School All-Stars North Texas ($592,140), Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts ($766,190), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas ($600,591), Buckner Children and Family Services Inc. ($1,125,435), Friends of the Dallas Public Library ($752,454), Mosaic Family Services ($666,612), Nexus Recovery Center ($747,681), and Ronald McDonald House of Dallas, Inc. ($1,250,000).

    Guests turn up in their best to honor Oscar de la Renta.

    Attendees at Crystal Charity Ball 10 Best Dressed Luncheon 2018
      
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    Guests turn up in their best to honor Oscar de la Renta.
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    Partying in style

    Glamorous young professionals star in our most popular Dallas society stories of 2018

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    Dec 27, 2018 | 9:31 am
    Glamorous young professionals star in our most popular Dallas society stories of 2018
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    Aida Kurtanovic, Nejra Kurtanovic, and Jenna Jenovic at Dallas Autumn Ball.

    Editor’s note: If you want to know where Dallas’ busiest social butterflies were this year — and what organizations benefited most from their partying, er, charitable ways — then look no further than the most-read society stories from 2018. Also popular with readers this year? Our stories about fabulous Dallas weddings.

    1. Dallas young professionals glam up for favorite autumn charity bash. When shoes are kicked off in the first 20 minutes, it's the sign of a fun night ahead. So the strappy stilettos abandoned at the edge of the dance floor at 9:20 pm perfectly foreshadowed things to come at the 2018 Dallas Autumn Ball. Glamorous young professionals 650 strong dressed to impress — ladies in long, shimmery, cut-to-there gowns and men in black tie — and arrived at Hotel ZaZa on November 9 ready to party.

    2. Dallas couple's 8-year courtship leads to lavish wedding fit for royalty. On May 19, 2018, while the world was watching Meghan and Harry say I do, Taylor and Jeff James were preparing to tie the knot in a sparkling Dallas celebration fit for royalty. The Highland Park High School sweethearts married in a joyful service at Park Cities Baptist Church, with a lavish reception following at Dallas Country Club.

    3. Dallas partygoers unleash their alter egos at titillating DIFFA gala. Among Dallas charitable galas, there is none quite like House of DIFFA. On paper, it appears to follow the formula — cocktail reception, silent auction, seated dinner, live auction — but there’s nothing formulaic about the fashion-fueled spectacle. And so it went on May 12, when DIFFA Dallas devotees descended on the Omni Dallas Hotel downtown for this year’s affair, themed Alter Ego.

    4. Black gowns are white haute on Dallas' best dressed at Crystal Charity Ball 2018. The best-dressed women in Dallas dazzled in their glamorous gowns as they strolled, arm-in-arm, with dapper gentlemen into the Hilton Anatole Hotel for Crystal Charity Ball on December 1. The annual fete is considered not only the grand finale of the social season, raising millions of dollars for local children's charities, but also the biggest fashion moment of the year in Dallas.

    5. 8 top spring charitable events every good Dallas socialite must attend. The 2018 spring social season was gearing up to be another one for the record books. And although our list was just scratching the surface of spring's special socials, we knew that these particular events would be the talk of the town long after they come to an end, thanks to the fantastic fashion, enchanting entertainment, and most importantly, the money raised for the beloved beneficiaries.

    6. Fun-loving bride and groom celebrate all weekend in Dallas with family and friends. If there’s one thing John and Marlee Angle do well, it’s celebrate. The business school sweethearts met at Southern Methodist University and became close friends while studying abroad in London. On July 21, 2018, they married in a weekend-long wedding celebration designed to give out-of-town family and friends a taste of all that Dallas has to offer.

    7. Art Ball 2018: The best-dressed ladies and gents show Dallas how it’s done. Fundraising in Dallas is serious business. So is fashion. And on the social circuit, the two go hand in hand, especially at events like Art Ball. At the Dallas Museum of Art’s signature gala in April, the attire may have been black tie, but it was anything but boring.

    8. Dallasites kick it to cancer at rollicking Cattle Baron's Ball 2018. Cattle Baron's Ball got a little bit o' chicken fried for its 45th anniversary, as country superstars Zac Brown Band kept a crowd of thousands rocking at a high-energy concert under the big tent at Gilley's on October 20. But let's back up our boots a step, because the performance by the hottest act in country music was just one highlight from the milestone edition of Dallas' premier society event benefiting the American Cancer Society.

    9. Dallas couple hosts 'imperfectly perfect' dream wedding in their own backyard. Ashley and Kiethan Lewis like to joke that they “did things all backwards.” The couple met through a mutual friend more than a decade ago, and though they took their time getting to the altar, they fulfilled many of their dreams on the way there. They married in the backyard of their Dallas County home on October 27, 2018.

    10. Colorful saris brighten Dallas nonprofit's Bollywood-themed bash. Resource Center Dallas had a milestone moment on March 3, when it celebrated the 20th year of its Toast to Life event, presented by Purple Foundation. As per usual, the vital nonprofit committed fully to a theme — this year, it was Bollywood — because they understand there is no fundraising without the fun. Undoubtedly this will go down as the most colorful Dallas gala of the year.

    Aida Kurtanovic, Nejra Kurtanovic, and Jenna Jenovic at Dallas Autumn Ball.

    Aida Kurtanovic, Nejra Kurtanovic, Jenna Jenovic
      
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    Aida Kurtanovic, Nejra Kurtanovic, and Jenna Jenovic at Dallas Autumn Ball.
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