High Profile Guests Joined
to Celebrate the Ongoing Victories for Marriage Equality in America
NEW YORK, NY, APRIL 18, 2013 – Last
evening, Calvin Klein Collection and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
hosted a special evening in honor of HRC’s high-profile marriage equality
program, Americans for Marriage Equality, at the iconic
brand’s Madison Avenue flagship store.
To
kick off the event, Christine Quinn, current Speaker of the New York
City Council and mayoral hopeful, spoke in support of HRC, followed by Lloyd
Blankfein, CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, who was a member of the
event’s host committee.
In
addition to Mr. Blankfein, members of the event’s host committee who were also
in attendance included: Uma Thurman, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka,
Alan Cumming, Carolyn
Murphy, Dan Stevens, Josh Lucas, Jared Kushner, Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear, Francisco
Costa, Italo
Zucchelli, Cristina Greeven Cuomo, Lauren DuPont,
Anh Duong,
Marina Rust and Ian Connor, Allison Sarofim,
Laure Heriard Dubreuil and Aaron Young, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch,
Linda Fargo,
Stefano Tonchi and David Maupin, Aaron Hicklin,
Klaus Biesenbach
and Laura Blankfein.
For
the event, Calvin Klein Collection wardrobed Ms. Thurman, Ms. Murphy, Mr.
Harris and Mr. Burtka, Mr. Cumming, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Stevens, Jesse Tyler
Ferguson and Justin Mitika, Andrew Rannells, Andy Cohen,
Nora Zehetner, Ms. Cuomo, Ms. Dupont, Ms. Duong, Ms. Heriard Dubreuil,
Veronica Webb, Cory Bond, David Hallberg, Mr. Biesenbach
and Lincoln Pilcher. Photographer, blogger, and model Hanneli
Mustaparta, who is a contributor to Calvin Klein’s official Tumblr blog
(calvinklein.tumblr.com), was also wardobed in Calvin Klein Collection and on
hand to cover the event. Each of the women’s looks was designed by Mr. Costa
and each of the men’s looks was designed by Mr. Zucchelli – the brands’
respective Women’s and Men’s Creative Directors.
Other
notable guests in attendance in support of this initiative included: Doug
Liman, Brian Ellner, Jill Kargman, Renée
Rockefeller, Angela Westwater, Andrew Saffir and Daniel
Benedict, Maggie Betts and Calvin Klein, Inc.’s Chief Executive
Officer, Tom Murry.
Calvin
Klein Collection hosted the official launch of the Americans for Marriage
Equality in the brands’ Madison Avenue flagship in November 2011. As the
inauguration for the nationwide campaign, many influential and iconic figures
in entertainment, fashion, society and business headlined and attended the
event.
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RETAIL CREDIT: Calvin Klein Collection, 654 Madison Avenue, New
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– Neil Rasmus/BFAnyc.com, as noted in the file name
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CONTACTS:
Alan Pepe
Communications
Calvin Klein, Inc.
Human Rights Campaign
Alan Jason
Pepe
Jennifer
Crawford
Michael Cole-Schwartz
CEO & Founder
SVP, Corporate
Communications Director
of Communications
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6768
212 292
9795
202 216 1553
alan@alanpepe.com
jennifercrawford@ck.com
michael.cole-schwartz@hrc.org