Kicking off the festivities of New York Tartan Week, Fashion world insiders Jeffrey Banks and Doria de La Chapelle donned their beloved tartans as they celebrated the re-launch of their best-selling book Tartan: Romancing the Plaid, Tuesday, April 7th, at the iconic and William Ivey Long–designed, Scottish Venue, Shoolbred’s in New York City.
Touted as the definitive book on all things tartan, the co-authors personally signed copies of their book, to their esteemed guests that included New York’s Fashion elite.
The guests were abuzz over all things tartan, reigniting the ‘mad for plaid’ hysteria the book originally sparked in 2007.
Guests at the Tartan: Romancing the Plaid re-launch event included:
Bibhu Mohapatra, Bobby Beard, Fern Mallis, Cynthia Lewis, Georgina Schaeffer, Steve Gold, Michelle Ateyeh, Michael Saccio, Josselyne Herman Saccio, Audrey Smaltz, Paul Aferiat, and Ron Roberts.
Tartan, the beloved symbol of kin, clan and nation to the Scots, has evolved into the one of the world’s favorite fabrics. Serving as inspiration for designers of everything from haute couture to furniture, tartan mania is in full swing. Fashion world insiders Jeffrey Banks and Doria de La Chapelle have written the definitive book on tartan, bringing together a dizzying array of images to tell the story of tartan’s humble beginnings to its current status as the ultimate emblem of great taste and high fashion.