Scene and Heard: Trevor Traina
“Ferragamo has promised lots of Italian style, and we are so looking forward to that,” said Trevor Traina, at a cocktail reception held at the new Salvatore Ferragamo boutique in San Francisco on Thursday, January 23. The event, hosted by the Florence-based fashion house, along with Traina, Vanessa Getty, Kathryn Lasater, and Allison Speer also served as a glittering kick-off party for the 2014 Mid-Winter Gala benefiting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Ferragamo is sponsoring the annual ball, which takes place on March 8, at the Legion of Honor museum in the city. Traina, who recently founded IfOnly, was joined by numerous tech and financial world guests including Silicon Valley philanthropist Bita Daryabari, Kate Harbin, Erin Glenn, Nirav Tolia of Nextdoor and his wife Megha, bio-tech venture capitalist Deepa Pakianathan, Vaunte fundraiser Nina Zinterhofer Stanford, and Fared Adib of Sprint.
Guests got a look at the boutique’s new two-story façade floor-to-ceiling glass windows and textured Italian marble, all framed within the building’s original pilasters and its frieze. Inside, they found a 11,000-square-foot boutique with a grand staircase of marble, walnut, mirror-polished stainless steel, and LED lighting, all imported from Italy, as well as a custom ceiling sculpture by Ross Lovegrove for Artemide. All of this set the stage for Creative Director Massimiliano Giornetti’s collections for women and men as Pacific Heights philanthropists—many dressed in his designs—gathered to celebrate the city’s Fine Arts Museums.
By Diane Dorrans Saeks
Pictured: Trevor Traina at the opening of Salvatore Ferragamo’s relocated boutique in San Francisco.
Photo by Drew Altizer Photography