Bolognese luxury boot label, Fiorentini + Baker, rang in its 10th anniversary, with a rock concert and boisterous bash befitting of the brand’s doctrines. The splendid celebration unfolded at its new flagship store at 54 Mercer Street in SoHo.

The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), founded in 1979, is the oldest and largest LGBTQ youth-services organization in the United States. On Thursday, November 10, at Cipriani Wall Street, it will celebrate a quarter century of operations at its annual Emery Awards.

This October, Adarsh Alphons Projects hosted its first “Jackpot! We’re ALL IN for the kids,” inaugural annual gala, at The Hole gallery (owned by Kathy Grayson, former director of the respected Deitch Projects) in New York City’s the Bowery.

It was my fist visit to the New York Center of Operations for the venerable auction house of Sotheby’s. Long a Christie’s devotee, I may have to reconsider. As guests streamed into the imposing, contemporary uptown fortress at 1334 York Avenue on Wednesday, October 12, and checked their evening coats and trenches, they were greeted by an attractive flank of wait staff carrying trays of wines and canapés.

French cordonnier Jean-Michel Cazabat opened his first flagship boutique at 350 Bleecker Street in the West Village on October 12.

On Thursday, September 22, New York’s premiere French cultural institution, French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) hosted a talk with Diane Venet, guest curator of the Museum of Arts and Design’s current exhibition, Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler.

Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani celebrated her appointment as Goodwill Ambassador to Fashion 4 Development (F4D), at the inaugural First Ladies and Fashion 4 Development luncheon Monday, September 19 at New York City’s iconic Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Although he elected not to present his 2012 spring/summer collection in New York this season, Lebanonese fashion designer, Georges Chakra, has still been busy. Since 2001, when Chakra began presenting his haute couture collection at Paris Fashion Week, his creations have earned him a steadfast pool of aristocratic clients who swoon for their imaginative and elaborate detailing, utmost quality, and luxurious designs.

With an eclectic front-row of Samuel L. Jackson, Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard (who made quite the rounds this fashion season), Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Pitt, and Peaches Geldof—at the ready— designer Yohji Yamamoto and sport behemoth adidas presented the spring/summer 2012 collection of collaborative label Y-3, at 82 Mercer Street on September 11.