Prolific Nonprofit Champion Kathryn Smith Parades Into the Houston Best Dressed With a Giving Heart
It's Not the Clothes, It's The Women Wearing Them Who Change the World
BY Shelby Hodge // 09.20.23Kathryn Smith photographed by Ivan Aguirre for the PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Best Dressed magazine spread.
PaperCity continues its series of profiles on the Philanthropy in Fashion Best Dressed honorees, Houston women who embrace the power of fashion and style by committing themselves to making the world a better place all the while dressing with style and grace. As designer Anne Klein notes: “Clothes aren’t going to change the world. The women who wear them will.” “
A proud native Houstonian, Kathryn Smith has an impressive history of community involvement. It is one that includes commitments as a founding member and president of the United Cerebral Palsy Guild and the same for The Center for Pursuit Guild, and for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Guild.
Today, Smith serves on the boards of Neuhaus Education Center, JDRF and Child Development Center.
When asked to share her roles as chair and co-chair of various fundraising events for nonprofits, the list had 18 entries. To name a few: Communities in Schools dinner, Houston Grand Opera wine classic, United Cerebral Palsy “Hats Off to Mothers” luncheon, Houston Ballet Ball and The Center for Pursuit luncheon, which she has chaired four times.
All of it done with great personal style thus earning Kathryn Smith Best Houston Dressed honors for the first time.
Kathryn Smith’s Faves
Designers: Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Giambiattista Valli
Fragrance: Coco Chanel
Place that inspires: Israel, the Holy Land
Favorite hotel in the world: Lanesborough Hotel, London
Fashion guilty pleasure: Shoes and jewelry
Doing It Her Way
False eyelashes or mascara: False eyelashes
Pilates or yoga: Pilates
Sneakers or stilettos: Stilettos
Facial or massage: Facial
Jeans or joggers: Neither
Feathers or fur: Fur
The PaperCity Houston Best Dressed honorees were introduced in May, photographed in July by Ivan Aguirre with styling from Michelle Avina, and will be presented at the PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Best Dressed Luncheon and Neiman Marcus Fashion Presentation benefiting March of Dimes, sponsored by Children’s Memorial Hermann, this Thursday, September 21 at the Post Oak Hotel.
More information on the big event can be found here.