This Year's PSLA Gala Went All Out for Children
“Anything that has to do with children I try to be involved,” said Carolina Herrera, who had just flown in from New York to be the honorary chair of PSLA’s annual winter gala in Beverly Hills in January. The charity has raised over $12 million and helped 125,000 children in under-served parts of the city since its founding in 2011 by Rochelle Gores Fredston, who has known Mrs. Herrera since she dressed her for her wedding eight years ago. “It’s my first time here but you can just look and see how successful this is,” the designer said.
It was a rare chilly night at the private Beverly Park estate of Alec and Kelly Gores, but all the better reason for guests to break out their furs as they bid on a silent auction for a guitar signed by Matt Bellamy of Muse, Neil Lane black and white diamond platinum earrings, a J Mendel minaudière, and tickets to Mrs. Herrera’s fashion show.
“How funny people from LA are about rain,” said Rebecca de Ravenel, who was wearing her own Les Bonbons earrings and chatting with her friend Zoe de Givenchy.
Guests, including actor Tobey Maguire, designer Monique Lhuillier, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer (wearing Gucci straight off the runway), Jacqui Getty, actress Camilla Belle, C Magazine founder Jennifer Smith Hale (an honoree), Gelila Puck, designer Rosetta Getty, and actress Mira Sorvino, sat down to an entirely gluten-free menu featuring snap pea and burrata salad and braised Niman Ranch beef short rib.
This year’s gala, which is in its 6th year, was to help raise funds for the organization’s Watts community center, designed pro bono by Frank Gehry, to break ground in 2018. Sean Dougall and Andrew Paulson, artists who are based out of a former lightbulb factory in Watts, spoke about the neighborhood: “Watts is the heart of our city but it's like our city has stopped taking care of its heart. We are disrupting generational poverty.”
As the Los Angeles Contemporary Choir performed "Can You Feel the Brand New Day" and “Hallelujah,” attendees waved their arms in the air.
A look at the A-list crowd:
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