Brazil Goes Boom

"It's a great night to be Brazilian," said Lorenzo Martone last night, looking out over the Manhattan skyline from one of the dimly lit alcoves of the Standard Hotel's renowned Boom. "Here we are at the top of the world, after our first Gala at the Metropolitan Museum, and there's no better place to celebrate our eight years than here!" As Chair of the Brazil Foundation's Gala, Martone represented a foundation that has raised over $12.5 million to promote social change and economic advancement in Brazil, and the cast of characters supporting the charity was as long as the Amazon. Anne Hathaway channeled her inner Charlie Chaplin in a black bowler, and Jim Carrey solidified his reputation as one of meatpacking's most faithful revelers in his short appearance at the roof of New York. Leonardo DiCaprio arrived in a deftly choreographed move that narrowly avoided a run-in with Brazil's first lady and former flame Gisele Bundchen, whose couture Calvin Klein gown had been auctioned off for a cool $50,000 on behalf of the foundation. New York DJ trio The Misshapes spun their set to a slightly more buttoned up crowd after their exhausting run of fashion week parties, but as the night wore on, even the most conservatively cummerbund-ed of the bunch were ready to let loose.

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May 2012

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