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Designer’s show gets slice of upper crust
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Our jaw doesn’t often come unhinged here at Buzz Central. However, this week, after we got a gander at the host committee for the upcoming “Marching Band Glam” Pecan Pie Couture fashion show and benefit, the company nurse had to be summoned.
To unveil his summer 2007 fashion line, Pecan Pie Couture owner and chief designer Clint Zeagler reached out to veteran fund-raisers Carey Carter and Kevin Knaus and artist pals Carolyn Carr and Michael Gibson. The foursome then rolled through their Rolodexes and started dialing influential friends to form the event’s host committee.
For the Feb. 1 gala at the Grady High School gym, the quartet came up with a gaggle of guests even the most connected of the city’s fund-raisers would drool over, including Sandra Baldwin, Denise Cohen, Tony Conway and Steve Walsh, Jeff and Susan Dunn, Mark Edge, Aida Flamm, Drs. Nancy and Jeffrey Gallups, Fay Gold, Angela and Pano Karatassos, Marilyn Krone, Harriet and Henry Leibowitz, Alissa Portman, Elizabeth and Thomas Roth and John Williams.
The evening will feature Zeagler’s latest designs modeled by members of the Atlanta Ballet, a performance by the Grady High Marching Band and an appearance by the self-proclaimed Atlanta ambassador of mirth, Baton Bob. All proceeds from the $15 ticket price will go to benefit Grady’s Urban Couture fashion program.
“It’s not even an A-list crowd, it’s an A-plus crowd,” Carter told Buzz on Friday. “Everyone is just excited to be part of something so fresh, innovative and cutting edge. No one even thought about saying no. Besides, Clint is describing the event as ‘20 percent tacky, 30 percent cheeky, 100 percent Southern and 100 percent love.’ How many designers have the [gumption] to be that honest?”
Added Knaus: “It’s just completely different, and people responded to Clint’s energy. I’m going to support anything that helps the city’s designers and fashion industry.”
When Zeagler finally had a moment to dial us back late Thursday night, he conceded: “I’m a little nervous now. I don’t know exactly who everybody is on that list, but I know they’re important. I don’t want to mess this up!”
Each member of the host committee was asked to invite 10 friends. The result? The event is practically sold out (any last-minute tickets will be made available at pecanpiecouture.com).
And to think, Buzz witnessed Knaus and Carter first being introduced to the budding young designer last fall at the Four Seasons hotel. …
Not-so-sterling PR
The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau received some assistance Friday when the BBC finally began reporting on the recent arrest of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, the visiting British historian jaywalker cuffed and sent to the pokey by Atlanta police last week.
On its Web site Friday, BBC News wrote about the colorful incident under the headline: “What Every Brit Should Know About Jaywalking: In the U.K., No One Would Bat an Eyelid. In Atlanta, You Could Be Wrestled to the Ground.” The BBC faithfully recounted the incident well-covered in the AJC, while managing to extract a juicy new detail from Fernandez-Armesto.
The BBC reported that not only did Atlanta police officer Kevin Leonpacher arrest Fernandez-Armesto, but he also “confiscated his box of peppermints.” In an interview with the Times in London, meanwhile, Fernandez-Armesto said that his colleagues now regard him “as a combination of Rambo, because it took five cops to pin me to the ground, and Perry Mason, because my eloquence before a judge obtained my immediate release.”
While it’s not against the law there, Buzz can report from personal experience that we’ve never attempted jaywalking in the U.K. The onslaught of small European cars whizzing past us on the wrong side of the street at dizzying speeds usually results in us calling a cab.
Ah, to be 16 again
Apparently the party just doesn’t stop for some privileged teenagers. First Atlanta’s Allison Mathis was chosen by MTV to have her birthday party recorded for its “My Super Sweet 16” show. Entertainment mogul Jermaine Dupri made an appearance, hip-hop group G-Unit performed, WXIA-TV covered it as news, and Mom and Dad handed her the keys to a brand-new Mercedes SUV. Then just this past week, the Paideia student was interviewed on the cable channel’s “TRL” countdown show. And on Monday night, the daughter of entertainment attorney Charles and Cyndi Mathis will have 200 or so folks over at Justin’s Restaurant & Bar in Buckhead for a viewing party of her episode, complete with red carpet.
All this made us wonder what she hopes for her 17th. “I’m not really tired of celebrating my 16th yet,” Mathis told Buzz on Friday (her birthday was Aug. 26). “But as for my 17th birthday, really, I’m kind of looking past that, to college.”
Stork report
It’s a girl!
Former “Married With Children” TV mom Katey Sagal, 49, and her writer-producer husband, Kurt Sutter, 43, welcomed their first child together on Wednesday, Sagal’s publicist Cara Tripicchio said.
Daughter Esme Louise Sutter was born via a surrogate in Los Angeles, Tripicchio said.
Sagal also has a 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son from a previous marriage.
Quote of the day
“I can do more than imagine.”
— Actor Peter O’Toole, 74, on Friday’s edition of “The View” when asked if he could imagine himself taking up with a 19-year-old woman like his randy character in the upcoming film “Venus.”
Celebrity birthdays
Saturday: Actor Charles Nelson Reilly is 76. Comedian Rip Taylor is 73. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Seinfeld”) is 46. Country singer Trace Adkins is 45. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 41. Actor Orlando Bloom is 30.
Sunday: “60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney is 88. Actress Faye Dunaway is 66. Actress Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men”) is 64. Actor Carl Weathers is 59. Rapper LL Cool J is 39. Actor Jason Bateman is 38. Musician Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters is 38.
Contributing: Sonia Murray and news services
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