(Long Island, N.Y.) Long Islanders and Hamptonites enjoyed a fabulous evening At Gurneys Inn on Wednesday October 20, 2010. This was Gurney’s second annual Pink Event Girls Night Out. The evening included entertainment, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and salon pampering. Supporters enjoyed hair, makeup and skin care demonstrations, special salon promotions, psychic readings, a goodie filled gift bag and valet parking.
Gurney’s Event, Girls Night Out is a charity event that benefits the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization. Their mission is to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and transnational research at leading medical centers worldwide and to bring public awareness about good breast health. The BCRF was founded in 1993 by Evelyn H. Lauder, Vice-Chairman of The Estee Lauder Companies. Lauder’s first foray into breast cancer awareness was through an initiative by herself and Aleandra Penney, former editor of SELF magazine, to make the pink ribbon an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.
Entertainment Journalist Cognac Wellerlane interviews Spa Director Candice Monte and Radio Host Jonathan Landsman from Natural News Talk Hour at Gurney’s Girl Night Out Charity Event and Fundraiser for Breast Cancer for Longislandexchange.com
Since its beginning the Breast Cancer Research Foundation has raised over $237 million to support clinical and translational research at medical institutions across the globe conducting the most advanced and promising breast cancer research that will help lead to prevention and a cure in our lifetime. BCRF currently funds 166 scientists across the United States and in Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and throughout Europe.
At the event I interviewed Spa Director of Gurney’s Inn Candice Monte who helped organize and coordinate the event. A combination of proper exercise, relaxing and therapeutic treatments, along with many indulgent beauty treatments at Gurney’s Salon de Beaute can provide visitors with an unforgettable experience. Their goal is to help you bring this experience home so that you continue to feel energized, healthy, and relaxed.
Ms. Monte is a big supporter and philanthropist towards The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Her goal was to raise funds at Girls Night Out to support, participate and contribute.
For more information on Gurney’s Inn please visit www.gurneysinn.com.
I also interviewed Radio Host Jonathan Landsman from Natural News Talk Hour. Owned by Truth Publishing International, Ltd., in Taiwan R.O.C., NaturalNews.TV was co-created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger and the editor of NaturalNews.com. The site is designed to share valuable videos on health, green living, happiness, fitness, self improvement and other similar topics that help uplift people and contribute to a better world.
NaturalNews.TV is advertiser supported and its videos are served through data servers located in 16 countries around the globe.
For more information please visit www.naturalnewsuniversity.com.
Sponsors for the event included Easthamptonstudio.com, Enclaveinn.com and Sparkling Pointe Winery.
Michael Wudyka from Easthamptonstudio.com chatted with me about the importance of bringing awareness about breast cancer. Representative Diana Molvanie from Sparkling Pointe Winery, event sponsor, spoke about the benefits of drinking wine in preventing cancer.
The soul of Sparkling Pointe was born more than twenty years ago, when Tom and Cynthia Rosicki first met at a debutante ball at the Waldorf Astoria. Weeks later, with a bottle of Champagne they toasted their first date. Cruising the Chesapeake Bay on their honeymoon, still only months later, they stocked their boat with many vintages and types of champagnes and sparkling wines. Through the years, they became lovers of the romance and magic of champagne.
Sparkling Pointe Winery is an architectural beauty in the style of an elegant French Country Manor. From the soaring double-height tasting room, exquisite Venetian crystal chandeliers to the mesmerizing vineyard views and private VIP Bubble Room, this unique venue creates an effervescence in itself in shades of silver and gold that make this winery famous. This opulent venue dazzles the senses and celebrates all that the North Fork has to offer.
For more info please visit www.sparklingpointe.com.
The entertainment was given by DJ Serg.
Sergio Michilli, known to thousands in the NY metro area as DJ Serg, began his career at the age of nine spinning turntables his uncle gave him. He was born and raised in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in The Bronx, NY. Now the infamous DJ Serg rocks thousands of people and never skips a beat. From Arena Nightclub in New Rochelle to Roxy Nightclub in New York City DJ Serg can connect with any audience. He has knowledge of music and his dance floor that is beyond most DJs. The most unique DJ Westchester and The Bronx have ever seen; there is no music he can’t play.
Entertainment Journalist Cognac Wellerlane interviews DJ Serg – at Gurney’s Inn for Girls Night Out the Charity Event for Breast Cancer Awareness. Sergio Michilli, known to thousands in the NY metro area as DJ Serg, began his career at the age of nine spinning turntables his uncle gave him. Now the infamous DJ Serg rocks thousands of people and never skips a beat. Born and raised in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in The Bronx, NY. From Arena Nightclub in New Rochelle to Roxy Nightclub in New York City DJ Serg can connect with any audience. He has knowledge of music and his dance floor that is beyond most DJs. The most unique DJ Westchester, and The Bronx has ever seen; there is no music he can’t play.
From Hip-Hop to House, Reggae to R & B, Progressive Hard Trance to Tribal, DJ Serg knows the music. His style is different from any DJ you’ve ever heard. A constant listener and buyer of all current music, DJ Serg is the most versatile DJ known in the music industry. His talents and continual evolution have dutifully earned him the utmost respect of his peers and a worldwide reputation as one of the most prolific and influential forces in music. His talents have brought him to spin alongside the world’s greatest DJs (Little Louie Vega, Skribble, Johnny Viscous, and Hex Hector) as well as landing private parties for top celebrities like Derek Jeter (NY Yankees) and Frank Vincent (Good Fellas, Raging Bull) to name a few. When DJ Serg is on the turntables, he connects with the audience keeping them on the dance floor and awaiting his next move.
In the past few years his career as a DJ has brought him to the next step, producing and remixing. He has acquired a degree in engineering and producing from the Institute of Audio Research in Manhattan. Currently he is in his state-of-the-art studio with Fever producer Sal Abbatiello, working with such artists as Cynthia, Jonnie O, George Lamond, Nayasia, Reina, Kim Sozzi, Noel, and Angel of the Cover Girls. Along with this project he is putting the finishing touches on a few Progressive Hard Trance tracks, including his current unreleased remix of “L’Italiano”. DJ Serg is creatively and innovatively taking the dance music genre to the next level.
For more info please visit www.djsergentertainment.com.
Continuing with the theme of breast cancer awareness, I attended an event hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue on October 23, 2010.
Saks Fifth Avenue in Huntington was proud to present its annual event to support breast cancer, October 21st- 24th entitled Key to the Cure. The event took place at all Saks stores nationwide. Saks donated 2% of sales from Thursday to Sunday, a total of $500,000, to local and national women’s cancer charities. Saks Fifth Avenue will also make a donation of $375,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In addition, 100% of the sales from the Donna Karan designed tee KTTC tee shirt will go to their local charity partner, Babe Zaharias Memorial Events and the American Cancer Society.
In the men’s department on Sat Oct 23rd the event included:
* Halloween costume party 12-2pm with tons of stuffed animal raffle prizes
* Fashion Designer Robert Stock personal appearance and shirt signing from 1-4pm with a 2pm dad and son fashion show
* Robert Graham photo booth – Guitar hero contest to win a free pair of Diesel jeans from 12-5pm
* Drinks served in men’s department all day with complimentary mini-men’s facials from Art of Shaving 2-6pm.
During the event I had the pleasure of interviewing Fashion Designer Robert Stock from the Robert Graham Designer Label.
Cognac Wellerlane interviews Fashion Designer Robert Stock the man behind the designer brand Robert Graham at Saks Fifth Avenue in the Walt Whitman Mall for the LongIslandExchange.com
By the time he designed the first Robert Graham Collection in 2001, Robert Stock had accomplished a great deal during his extensive career in the fashion business. Stock’s own story has been a journey that has taken him from a childhood in the Bronx to a highly successful career as a designer.
He formed his point of view at an early age taking his fashion cues from his father’s love for beautifully tailored dress shirts. As a young man, Stock favored Saville Row style, an influence that continues to resonate today in the Robert Graham line, with its impeccable quality, exquisite detailing and wry, subtle wink of British-inspired humor.
At a very young age Stock’s talent and eye landed him a partnership with Ralph Lauren – a fellow Bronx native whom Stock first met when Lauren was selling a tie and cologne line to the owner of the clothing store where Stock worked in the mid 1960’s. Stock ultimately ended up partnering with Lauren on his highly successful Chaps collections. It didn’t take long for the men’s wear industry to recognize Robert Stock as a rising star with abundant talent and potential. Always a sportswear designer with a penchant for woven tops, Stock single-handedly created the sand washed silk phenomenon and to this day his signature sand washed silk shirts are regarded as classics.
In 2000 Stock decided to take a challenge. With every collection looking as safe and uninspired as the next, he saw a big opportunity to design something fresh and unique and established the brand Robert Graham in 2001.
Robert Graham was founded in 2001 and is an American Eclectic luxury brand based out of New York City. The name of the company is an amalgam of its two founders, Robert Stock, the award-winning American fashion designer and Graham Fowler, an English textile designer who left the company in 2002 a year after its inception.
“I sense that the emotions I experience when designing Robert Graham products are similar to the emotions people have when wearing them,” says Founder and Designer Robert Stock. “Expressing yourself without reservation, without explanation, just feeling confident. Enjoying a life well lived. That is my vision for Robert Graham.”
Admirers have come to discover its witty, engaging and accessible sense of individuality. They enjoy wearing the collections as much as Stock enjoys designing them. It’s an attitude that carries through to the “Knowledge Wisdom Truth” label integrated discreetly into every garment. “Those three little words sum it all up,” Stock notes. “They are the essence of what I am looking to communicate.”
Along the way, Stock has received the coveted Coty Award and the Prestigious Cutty Sark Award for Leading American Men’s Sportswear Designer. He has also been honored by FIT at its annual Star Salute at the United Nations in 1995 and by YMA at its Annual Scholarship Fund Awards in 2000. Robert Stock is married with two children and currently resides in Connecticut.
Afterwards I interviewed jewelry designer Barry Brinker. Barry Brinker has been creating collectable gems for over twenty years. His background in design, architecture and art supports the unique perspective presented in his innovative jewelry collections.
Mr. Brinker is a part time resident of Hong Kong and travels extensively throughout Asia in search of the finest antiquities, pearls and rare gemstones. The brand is currently distributed exclusively through Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Starboard Cruise Lines. Additionally, private commissions are encouraged.
Mr. Brinker works in both sterling silver and 18k gold, designing four primary collections for both men and women each year. Numerous celebrity clients are fans of Barry Brinker Fine Jewelry. His memorable treasures have created a loyal following. with one’s first acquisition, they feel compelled to come back for more!
For more information about the designer please visit www.barrybrinker.com and for more information on how you can support, participate and contribute for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation please visit http://www.bcrfcure.org/.
