{"id":221379,"date":"2025-09-12T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:07:11","slug":"inside-kerings-fourth-caring-for-woman-dinner-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221379\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Kering’s Fourth Caring for Woman Dinner in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe most famous and most influential figures: few events in New York bring them all together in one room like the Kering<\/a> Foundation\u2019s Caring for Women dinner. On Thursday night, the charitable event returned to The Grill and The Pool for its fourth year, raising a record-making $4.5 million in support of ending gender-based violence. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI like this song,\u201d said event cohost Salma Hayek<\/a> Pinault at the start of the night, shimmying to the sound of light jazz music playing overhead as she posed for photos with husband Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault<\/a> at the top of The Grill\u2019s staircase. The jazz was soon drowned out by the din of cocktail hour chatter, as guests like Dakota Johnson, Julianne Moore, Kirsten Dunst, Seth Meyers and Alexi Ashe, Adrien Brody, Georgina Chapman, Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch, Iconiq\u2019s Michael Anders, Away founder Jen Rubio, Baz Luhrmann, Anna Wintour, Wendi Murdoch, activist Dolores Huerta and more filled the room. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Baz<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBaz Luhrmann and Dakota Johnson<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200aThis is my third year attending,\u201d said Linda Evangelista, hanging by the packed bar. \u201cIt\u2019s like going back to school. I just think [the event] kicks off the whole season of events that are about to follow. It\u2019s such an important cause. I love how Kering<\/a> supports women. I\u2019ve been personally affected by this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u200a\u201dI really admire the work that Kering does, to use the platform and power that they\u2019ve amassed in being creative juggernauts in the field to be able to give back in such a real way,\u201d said Yara Shahidi<\/a>, a Gucci ambassador who was dressed, naturally, in a green Gucci gown. \u201cI love the fact that so many people at Kering are extremely aligned with being able to give back in this way, and be participants in conversations that fashion doesn\u2019t always engage with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring cocktail hour, the VIP section was the balcony overlooking the room, where Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault chatted with dinner keynote speaker Diane von Furstenberg, and newlyweds Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez<\/a> held court.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the backstage staging area, others were catching up before making their grand entrance at the start of dinner. Cohost Colman Domingo offered Lenny Kravitz an enthusiastic greeting, surprised they hadn\u2019t run into each other at Valentino\u2019s Studio 54 party<\/a> the night before. \u201cI was sitting with Evan [Ross],\u201d said Kravitz, as Domingo countered, \u201cWe were dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDemi Moore, another cohost, fielded compliments on the high leg slit in her gown as fellow cohost Jessica Chastain followed shortly behind her.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Demi<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDemi Moore <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce everyone was seated, MC Ariana DeBose introduced the Kering Foundation\u2019s chairman to the stage. \u201cYour presence here tonight is not only a sign of support, it\u2019s a declaration that gender-based violence must end,\u201d Pinault told the crowd. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe dinner highlighted the work of the four nonprofits that were benefited by this year\u2019s event: Sanctuary for Families, FreeFrom, Violence Intervention Program, and Equality Now.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u200a\u201dEach time it\u2019s a success,\u201d said Kering Foundation president Marie-Claire Daveu, also Kering\u2019s chief sustainability and institutional affairs officer, of the annual dinner. \u201cAnd when I say a success, it\u2019s really a success in two dimensions. First, it\u2019s a way we need to raise awareness about the topic,\u201d she added. \u201c\u200aIt\u2019s also about the fact that we are able to have money for the NGOs, in addition to what the Kering Foundation is doing. And with this money, all these NGOs are able to implement actions on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe money came into play after dinner (and after a speech by von Furstenberg), when auctioneer Lydia Fenet took the floor for a live auction featuring exclusive Kering-brand experiences that for one night only, money could indeed buy. A Saint Laurent \u201ccultural experience in Paris\u201d set the tone at a $175K gavel price, and an opportunity to have one of the first made-to-measure Gucci gowns designed by Demna proved particularly popular \u2014 and after a back-and-forth, was sold twice over for $210K to Lauren S\u00e1nchez and Mona Patel. The Balenciaga \u201ccouture experience\u201d similarly sold twice, at $170K each. Von Furstenberg raised her paddle for the closing lot, a Jeff Koons artwork, which ultimately sold to another bidder for $275K.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGiving feels so good, and there are so many of us in this room who have literally everything we could ever want in the world,\u201d DeBose told the crowd. \u201cSo if you want to make a pledge, babes, make a pledge. you don\u2019t need an auction to make a difference in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAfterward, as some guests made their exit (although hard to believe, it was technically only the first night of fashion week) and others awaited the arrival of their dulce de leche cake for dessert, performer FKA Twigs slowly weaved her way across the room and onstage to close the night on an even higher note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most famous and most influential figures: few events in New York bring them all together in one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,120449,120450,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,24902,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-221379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-franu00e7ois-henri-pinault","10":"tag-kering","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-salma-hayek","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192427087271951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}