Scenes from a Night With Cartier at the Dallas Museum of Art
Inside the VIP Experience
By Billy Fong //
Photography Tamytha Cameron Smith and Simon Luna of the Mamones LLC
The invitation announced a black tie dinner with Cartier in celebration of the Dallas Museum of Art’s opening of “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity.” Well, who couldn’t refuse to don a natty Tom Ford cummerbund on a Tuesday evening? Not moi.
Upon arriving for the reception for the Museum’s Circle members (their premier giving program) my date, Kira Nasrat, and I were greeted by some terribly handsome Cartier pages. (A photo op is the best way to start an evening.)
After oohing and ahhing our way through the anticipated exhibition, which was four years in the making, we made our way up the Museum’s concourse to a magically designed tent, where We Cassandra Moses (the genius at R2Art Catering) had prepared a divine dinner. The walk gave us an opportunity to catch up with two of my favorite people: Nancy Dedman and Brad Kelly. Nancy shared the story of finding the right sequined Carolina Herrera gown she was wearing years ago for a white party on Gene Jones’ yacht — it’s been a go-to for a chic evening on the town ever since.
Some other fashion standouts that night were Bela Cooley, looking statuesque in black Rosie Assoulin, and her date for the evening, Shelby Goff (who went with a one-shoulder Hapern gown in delicate greens and white for the evening).
Other VIP Celebration attendees included: Agustín Arteaga and Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime; Catherine and Will Rose; Laura and Walter Elcock, Pierre Rainero; Mercedes Abramo, president and CEO of Cartier North America; CeCe Smith and Ford Lacy; Capera Ryan; Gayle Stoffel; Barbara and Bob Bigham; Brian Bolke and Faisal Halum; Diane and Stuart Bumpas; Ceron and Todd Fiscus; Lynn and Allan McBee; Stephanie and Michael Seay; Sheryl Adkins-Green and Geoff Green; Sogand Shoja, Deedie Rose; Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller; Jessica Nowitzki; Rajan Patel; Gowri Sharma; Sharon Young, Ciara Cooley Biggers, and Lisa Cooley.
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