Overview

• The event, held Monday night at the David H. Koch Theater, drew designers Michael Kors, Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger and Diane von Furstenberg alongside models Elizabeth Hurley, Karlie Kloss, Paulina Porizkova and Carolyn Murphy.
• Elizabeth Hurley told attendees Lauder personally chose her as the face of Estée Lauder at 29 for her first modeling job and remembered him as a steadfast friend who celebrated her 2007 wedding in India.
• Family members including Ronald Lauder, William Lauder and Gary Lauder attended, with a dress code of “celebratory, with a touch of pink” in recognition of the Lauders’ breast cancer philanthropy.
• Sotheby’s plans a November sale of works from Lauder’s collection estimated at about $400 million, including a Gustav Klimt expected to exceed $150 million, according to ARTnews.
• Lauder, who died June 14 at 92, was a major philanthropist and art collector whose 2013 gift of a $1 billion Cubist collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art reshaped the museum’s holdings.