Matthew Modine Wants Us All To Go Ride Our Bikes
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[Matthew Modine's Bicycle for a Day event]
Go HERE for more photos from this event by Antwan Duncan
Actors, Models, Socials, philanthropists, designers and even NY Housewives (a la Bravo’s reality TV series) rolled up to the Green Carpet Entrance (some in PEDI-CABS) to the Chelsea Art Museum to celebrate the launch of Tumi’s Alpha line while supporting Matthew Modine’s Bicycle for a Day Charity (BFAD). Photographs were on display to buy via silent auction of a ReForestation project in California (some of the pics were taken with my favorite - the pinhole camera). Also available were the super cool and fun BFAD “dog tags”. For a small donation of $20 I was wearing one around my neck and loving it.
The party was ablaze in the GlassHouse on the 21st floor of the museum. Guests enjoyed Chopin CEO Martinis, Chopin Ginger Pear and Mule Cocktails and Ruinart champagne. The view was amazing, everyone was mixing, mingling and laughing, and preparing ourselves for Sept 20th’s B-Day, as in BIKE FOR A DAY. The goal is to get 100,000 people to use bikes instead of taxis, subways, buses, and passenger vehicles. Sounds fun to me!
So who might you see riding around town on a bicycle on September 20th that Guest of a Guest saw last night?? Executive Creative Director of Tumi David Chu, BFAD’s Matthew Modine, Actor Liam Neeson, Socialite/Designer Tinsley Mortimer, Actress Bebe Neuwirth, Social Scribe Peter Davis (embarking on a hat trend), Fashion Designer Gustavo Arango, Socialite with a flair for Tea Parties Tracy Stern, (My favorite NY Housewife who is not actually a housewife) Bethenny Frankel, stylist Phillip Bloch, Events Maven Susan Shin, Advertising go-to-girl Chessy Wilson, Author/Socialite Anisha Lakhani (toting a FAB Anya Hindmarch bag), Social Diva Emma Snowdon-Jones, Trend Guru Kim Bates, Furniture Heir Eric Villency & Kimberly Villency, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Heather Vouer, Christie’s Lydia Fenet, Socialite/Banker Lauren Remington Platt, Designer Miguelina Gambacci, PR Sprite Kristian Laliberte (with some kick a** pants from Epik), Social Blogger Tia Walker, Designer Gilles Mendel, Actress Annabel Vartanian, NY Housewives Alex McCord & Simon Van Kempen, Event Coordinator Nick Dietz, Fashion World’s Fern Mallis, Socialite Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Real Estate Mogul Robert Futterman, Actor Nick Raynes, Designer Vivienne Tam and so so many more!!
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tracy stern is pretty and mad nice.
we are like friends now and stuff.
if you’re jealous, leave a comment after le beep.
also, i have had to type “warm”, “moist”, and now “season”
in the anti-spam box.
[beep.]
ride a bike?
that’s up there with wearing a bathing suit.
ain’t going to happen.
April 23, 2008 10:11pm
Celebrating cycling is nice … but celebrating pedicabs and biking right now is irresponsible right now in light of the new regulations keeping pedicabs in manhattan and banning them on bridges. Pedicab drivers now have to pay to store their trailers in manhattan. Biking infrastructure in the city is coming, but very very slowly, and with out ANY help from any of the people at that party.
April 29, 2008 4:33pm
How can you say “without any help from the people at that party”? You don’t know that. Also, the more people are on bikes and the more people demand an alternate form of passenger transportation - the faster the administration will try to resolve those needs. Simple.