PALM BEACH, Fla. — Designer Andrew Gn wooed the social set here at a luncheon and trunk show hosted by Tuberose boutique April 14.
About 75 guests, including Marjorie Fisher and daughters Mary Fisher and Julie Fisher Cummings, Ambassador Nancy Brinker, Andrea Stark, Jean Tailer, Joan Goodman and Judy Knudsen, couldn’t get enough of the Singapore native’s fall collection, or his worldly charm.
“He basically created a frenzy,” said Tuberose buyer Elizabeth Belkin, describing the Paris-based designer as “a genius and the next big one.”
For his part, Gn was surprised about which of his Thirties and Forties-inspired pieces were selected.
“I thought this would be a conservative crowd, but they bought more fashion-forward things like satin blouses with puffed sleeves, velvet bows and white mink collars,” he said.
Retailing at $1,750, the blouses were snapped up in pink, steel gray and black. Belkin said another hot seller was a black skirt suit in stretch bouclé with bugle-bead bow detail and trim for $3,900.
“Everyone here has seen a tweed suit before, but they still loved his full-length coat in pink tweed, too,” she said. Luxuriously reinvented with embroidery and a white mink collar, it retails for $3,475.
Belkin reported the event, which ran over three days, totaled $265,000 in sales, enticing Gn to consider future trips to the Sunshine State, possibly for a charity fashion show with Tuberose in November.
— Rebecca Kleinman