Weight Watcher’s Florine Mark welcomed 617 guests ($75 per ticket) to her 14th annual ReMarkable Women Live! luncheon at The Henry. The event offered guests lots of free samples from vendors and spotlighted the personal and professional achievements of honorees: HGTV and Food Network’s president emeritus Judy Girard, Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville, and Carol Arsenault, who went from a size-16 to a size-8 in one year as a Weight Watcher. It also featured Ch. 7’s Glenda Lewis moving revelation of a past abusive relationship and Free Pree reporter Rochelle Riley’s laugh evoking saga of husband hunting. The event netted about $40,000, which will benefit, in addition to Norville’s and Girard’s charities of choice, Beaumont’s Ministrelli Women’s Heart Center, U of M’s Cardiovascular Center, and West Bloomfield Henry Ford Hospital’s Florine Mark Inpatient Unit for Women’s and Children’s Health. CCS Detroit International Wine Auction The 32nd annual fundraising wine auction attracted 550 College for Creative Studies supporters to the humungous white tent erected in Cadillac Square. The site was a salute to GM’s presenting sponsorship. The tent’s elegant décor referenced GM’s luxury cars and its clear top seemed to bring Detroit’s office buildings right inside. As Matt Cullen, who cochaired the event with his wife Karen and Nate and Cathy Forbes, told the VIP’s gathered for a special reception, “We wanted to have it here to celebrate the city itself.” Featured vintner Jean-Charles Boisset then proposed that all “Raise our glasses to Detroit. Though the oceans separate us, we have wine that brings us together.” Before dinner, guests sipped exceptional wines and perused the silent auctions of 50 wine lots and more than 30 art objects created by CCS alums. When they adjourned for the five-course dinner, their table was centered with a beautiful sculpture created by glass artist April Wagner (CCS ’95 crafts). Guests bought 22 of them, raising $19,100. The remaining 28 are for sale through Jan.1, 2014 at the Somerset and downtown Detroit Shoppes. New this year was the pairing of fashion with the wine, thanks to Forbes, his Somerset Collection and shops there. Models wearing designs from Salvatore Ferragamo, Gucci, downtownpublications.com
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