Tinsley Mortimer

Serena Merriman

Byrdie Bell and Chessy Wilson

Barbara Bush

Ivanka Trump and Coralie Charriol Paul

Stephanie LaCava

Annelise Peterson

Nicole Hanley

Tiffany Koury, Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover, and Lydia Fenet

Meredith Melling Burke and Sylvana Soto-Ward

Marina Rust Connor

I wouldn’t feel anything like a society chronicler if I didn’t write about the annual masked ball of the Young Fellows of the Frick Collection. It was held the night that I went on spring break and I wanted to include it before moving on to covering other events as it has become such a staple of the Upper East Side social calendar.

The night’s host committee, which included Tinsley Mortimer, Ivanka Trump, Byrdie Bell, Lydia Fenet, and Coralie Charriol Paul, was dressed by Elie Saab, one of the night’s sponsors. Ivanka’s namesake company, another sponsor, jeweled her fellow event planners and Lydia hosted a midnight breakfast after-party at a nearby Park Avenue townhouse.

Tinsley and Ivanka will be seeing even more of each other in the future. Tinsley is getting her own office at Trump Tower as she takes on her new position of lifestyle director of B+B Investment Group, the New York real estate firm. She will be advising the company’s principals about branding and marketing their new developments, as well as planning their luxury buildings’ interiors.

Chessy Wilson came on the arm of her boyfriend, Paul Slater, and Byrdie Bell was without Bingo Gubelmann at this event and at her private 23rd birthday party at Le Royale after it as the couple are said to no longer be an exclusive item.

A stalwart society presence was found in Marina Rust Connor, a founder of the masked ball. Her grandmother, Ruth Pruyn Field, was the first wife of Ogden Phipps, the grandson of Henry Phipps, a partner of Henry Clay Frick’s in the steel business. Marina’s grandfather, the department store heir Marshall Field III, lived in the 740 Park Avenue building, which was just two blocks away from the residence of Frick and would eventually only house his art collection and be the host venue of this very classic gala event.

All photographs © PatrickMcMullan.com.