The New York fashion industry turned out in force Wednesday night for an informal roof top party hosted by Luca Luca and handled by LaForce & Stevens Public Relations to celebrate Teri Agins, the fashion reporter of The Wall Street Journal, winning the 2004 CFDA Eugenia Sheppard Award for excellence in fashion journalism. Among those who we ran into personally at the party included Linda Wells the editor-in-chief of Allure, Paul Covaco also of Allure, Joan Kaner fashion director of Neiman Marcus, Fern Mallis of 7thonSixth, Ruth Finley publisher of Fashion Calender, Patrick Robinson the designer for Perry Ellis, Lisa Marsh the gossip columnist, Desiree Gruber of Full Picture, Audrey Smaltz of the Ground Crew, Vicki Ross the fashion show producer, Peter Arnold the director of the CFDA, Paolo Zampolli the model mogul, and Robin Givhans fashion editor of The Washington Post.
-reported by Ernest Schmatolla