Tatiana and Serge Sorokko hosted an opening night reception for legendary fashion designer James Galanos (aka Jimmy) at the Serge Sorokko Gallery on Grant Avenue in downtown San Francisco.
Of course, couture collector and former Russian model Tatiana wore a 1960's Galanos gown, fitting for a contributing editor at Harper's Bazaar.
The idea for the exhibition was conceived in Russia last May when Serge presented British artist Stephen Sumner's work at Moscow's Museum of Modern Art. By the way, Sumner's wife is Harper's BAZAAR
Editor-in-Chief Glenda Bailey. She and the Moscow entourage included Paul Litvak, David Nash, Larry Block, Denise Hale and Jimmy Galanos, of course.
The group on Russia trip for Stephen Sumner Art exhibit.
Among those at the reception were Los Angelinos Wolfgang Puck with designer Gelila Assefa; actress Dixie Carter wearing a low-cut black Galanos cocktail dress; Rosemarie Stack, the widow of actor Robert Stack; furniture designers Mollie and Richard Mulligan; and interior designer David Phoenix.
Dixie Carter lead everyone in "Happy Birthday" to a modest Galanos who turned eighty-two the day before. Then, SF Fine Arts Museum Curator-in-Charge, Robert Johnson announced that one of Galanos's images would be added to the museum's permanent collection. Immortality, now that's a nice birthday gift.
LA society florist David Jones delivered a hand-written note from former first lady Nancy Reagan, Galanos' dear friend and favorite client who wore a white Galanos to President Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Ball.
San Franciscans abounded, of course: Denise Hale; actor Peter Coyote with wife Stefanie; Christine Suppes, fashionlines.com editor; habberdasher Wilkes Bashford; Lynne Zydowsky; author Diane Dorrans Saeks; stylish Sally Debenham, and Stanley and Helen Cheng, owners of Hestan Vineyards and Kitchen Aid.