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February brings the first hope of spring. Saturday, February 1, help your four-legged companions at the Best Friends Brunch, benefitting Interfaith Ministries' aniMeals on Wheels Program. Trot downtown to The Sam Houston Hotel to ensure Houston-area pets don't go hungry. Honorees Tena Lundquist Faust and Tama Lundquist (713.533.4924, kloftin@imgh.org) … Wednesday, February 12, snap up amazing art at Houston Center for Photography's annual Print Auction. Artists, galleries and collectors worldwide donate pieces for the live and silent auctions. At The Junior League; media sponsor PaperCity (713.529.4755, ext. 13, bevin@hcponline.org) … Friday, February 14, feel the love at Have a Heart for Memorial Park's 90th Anniversary Gala, chaired by Anna Thomsen Holliday and benefitting Memorial Park Conservancy. Featuring cocktails, dinner and honoring Ed Wulfe; media sponsor PaperCity (832.673.0860, ann@ annsevents.com) … Saturday, February 15, the Houston Ballet Ball: La Mille et Deuxième Nuit at Wortham Theater Center, chaired by Shawn Stephens, honors Stanton Welch; media sponsor PaperCity (Suzie Cadey, scadey@ houstonballet.org) … Friday, February 21, help save Houston's historic structures at The Cornerstone Dinner Good Brick Awards. Benefitting Preservation Houston, at River Oaks Country Club (713.510.3990, ctardy@preservationhouston.org) … HCC Black History Scholarship Gala rounds out the night with guest speaker the Reverend Al Sharpton at Hilton Americas-Houston (hccsfoundation.org/blackhistorygala) … Saturday, February 22, help a garden grow at Discovery Green Park for the Gala on the Green. Includes dinner by Tony's and live entertainment; chaired by Soraya and Scott McClelland (713.800.4702, julie@ discoverygreen.com) … Thursday, February 27, go international with Asia Society Texas Center at Tiger Ball, celebrating Japan — honorary chair is Japanese Ambassador His Excellency Kenichiro Sasae — with a sushi reception, seated dinner by City Kitchen, dancing and live entertainment; chaired by Donna Cole and Glen Gondo; media sponsor PaperCity (713.496.9904, jbradshaw@ asiasociety. org). Erin Oppenheim Kate Spade New York opens mid-month in the former Fidelity space on Drexel Drive. The 6,500-square-foot flagship in Highland Village will stock the full KSNY lifestyle brand: handbags, ready-to–wear, shoes, eyewear, beauty, home goods and more. Added bonus: a cafe and outdoor courtyard … Zadok Jewelers' second annual Grand Wedding Band Event takes place February 28 through March 2. View extended collections and get exclusive offers on wedding bands. Twenty world- renowned band designers, including J.B. Star and C. Gonshor, will be on hand to assist in all things "I do," as well as wedding pros from Chocolate Pizazz, Ivory Bridal Atelier, J. Hilburn, Kuhl-Linscomb, Masraffs/Wynden and Petite Sweets … Casa de Novia adds the bridal designs of Isabelle Armstrong to the mix; each gown is inspired by the intricate beauty of a flower … Lucchese, the Texas-based boot maker since 1883, opens a Houston outpost in Highland Village later this summer. The 5,000-square-foot space (in the former Ann Taylor locale) will be designed by Dallas- based architecture firm Droese Raney. William Zeitz, the brand's creative director, reveals that the store will feature not only Lucchese's western-style artisanal boot line (handmade in El Paso), but also the new fashion footwear collection (made in both Italy and Texas), launching Spring 2014 … Tootsies welcomes two new exclusive lines: London-based Ostwald Helgason and Australian label Sass & Bide … Saks Fifth Avenue hosts the Allure Magazine Beauty Symposium February 20, 6:30 to 8:30 pm; Allure assistant editor Catherine O'Neill moderates beauty talk with Victoria Christian of Clive Christian, Nancy Feetham of La Mer, Terry Darland of Dior, Josie Natori of Natori and Deborah Walters. Also at Saks, SneAKS Men's Designer Sneaker launches February 26, 6:30 to 8:30 pm; the night benefits the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation. Info on both Saks events, 713.843.5710 … Women's apparel, accessories and handmade jewelry boutique Pomp & Circumstance finds a new home at 3209 Westheimer … Join Recipe for Success and M Penner February 11, 6 to 8 pm, for Men Dress for Dinner: Sox, Love & Rock n' Roll Fashion. Information recipe4success.org/events.html. Megan Pruitt Winder luxury properties. utmo discretion. m a r t h a t u r n e r . c o m 7 1 3 . 5 5 8 . 3 3 1 8 local knowledge. global reach. FEBRUARY | PAGE 8 | 2014 Social Whirl I t all began with a recent night I spent with Tom Ford. Not the man, mind you, but his new line of eight men's skincare products including a face cleanser, moisturizer, revitalizing concentrate, lip balm, purifying mask (it goes on black and dries to a manly greenish gray as it sucks devilish impurities from one's dermis), bronzing gel, anti-fatigue eye treatment and concealer. I'm sold on everything but the concealer, personally. Also of note, Ford's own admission that the real secret to a fresh face is clear bright eyes — which is to say, if revitalizing concentrate seems a bit much, maybe opt for a spot of Visine before facing the day. From $25, at Neiman Marcus … And while doing an about-face, let's talk razors. There's nothing I deplore more than shelling out 20 bucks on a cartridge of blades, which is why I'm so pleased to have made the acquaintance of Harry. No, I'm not talking about the famous Parisian bar where Hemingway and the Aly Khan swilled; I mean Harry's Razors, the brainchild of Warby Parker (the direct- market eyeglass purveyor) co-founder Jeff Raider and friend Andy Katz-Mayfield, which has managed to price razor blades at around two dollars by selling directly through their website. Better still, you can purchase razors, blades et. al as a nifty little set (priced from $15), with handles available in both chrome and snappy colors. Included in the sets, too, is a tube of Harry's shaving cream, which is free of pesky parabens and sulfates, to boot. A year's worth of blades comes in at $52, which has me happily waving adieu to Gillette for good. At harrys.com … A pervasive new aesthetic is permeating the style monde, and it's premised on freshly refined classics (we have Phoebe Philo and Mickey Drexler to thank in equal measure for this). Jack Purcell's spring collection of sneakers expertly embodies these qualities – classic, effortless, edited. The famous lace-ups are reimagined in four new manners, ranging from caramel nubuck, called Tortoise Leather Jack, to shiny aubergine calfskin, called Post Applied. They're a wise buy, with prices starting at $37.50 for a pair in timeless white canvas to impart a snappy exclamation point to spring trousers. At converse.com … Mark Cross, America's first luxury leather goods brand (Grace Kelly famously carried one of their pocketbooks in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window) relaunches its choice men's leather goods this month, including luggage (duffels, rolling trolleys and soft packing cases), briefcases, Dopp kits and wallets in a variety of iterations, in both color and design. Prime pieces include a reissue of the original Mark Cross duffel design in vintage calf, as well as a red pebbled calf Dopp kit with gold hardware that is exhilaratingly irresistible. At markcross1845.com … Cheers, chaps! Seth Vaughan H appy centennial, Hermann Park. As the ultimate birthday gift for 100, the park Conservancy green-lights an ambitious public art endeavor, Art in the Park. The first of some very engaging installations unfurled late last month: North Carolina-based Patrick Dougherty's anthropomorphic architecture fashioned from sapling twigs. His droll little huts for visitors to enter resemble the faces of giants and emit a whiff of enchantment. Coming next, with an opening date of Thursday, March 6, two-time Whitney Biennial talent Trenton Doyle Hancock creates a permanent, site- specific mural for the train tunnel; the riotously colored painting bears his trademark cosmology of odd cartoon-type characters including the mythic Torpedo Boy, a stand-in for the artist himself. Lea Weingarten's Weingarten Art Group curates and organizes the project, which includes permanent works commissioned for the park such as the Hancock mural alongside temporary pieces including Dougherty's twiggy structures, which will degrade over time, as well as works on loan. Unveiling in the coming months: aluminum-and-enamel trees by Ugo Rondinone; former Core Fellow Sharon Engelstein's blobby mammoth sculptures; rainbow-hued skeins of nautical rope as pathways by Orly Genger; and, late spring, one of Louise Bourgeois' bronze spiders that will creep towards the Jones Reflection Pool. Rounding out the lineup are Mexican artist Yvonne Domenge's crimson-patinated carbon steel Wind Waves (a loaned piece) joining pavilions designed by Rice University and University of Houston architecture students. For the latest, hermannpark.org and follow @PaperCityCA on Twitter. Catherine D. Anspon Trenton Doyle Hancock's mural, unveiling next month at Hermann Park Art Hermann Park SPROUTS COURTESY WEINGARTEN ART GROUP COURTESY WEINGARTEN ART GROUP Patrick Dougherty's installation in process, Hermann Park {RAFFISH} THE RAKE