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Philanthropist Agnes Gund is the president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art. She is also chair of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission for New York City.
John Hoke is the head of design for Nike. He helped develop the Shox cushioning system, one of the brand’s signature features.
After working for Geoffrey Beene, Gucci and Bergdorf Goodman, Richard Lambertson cofounded (with John Truex) the luxury leather goods company Lambertson Truex in 1998. The partners were honored as accessory designers of the year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2000.
Renée Price is the director of the Neue Galerie New York, a museum for German and Austrian art. She curated the current exhibition, “Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections.”
Architect Hani Rashid is the cofounder, with Lise Anne Couture, of Asymptote. Designs for the Penang Global City Center in Malaysia and pavilions for the planned Guggenheim Pavilions on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island are among the New York firm’s recent works.
Architect David Rockwell founded the New York–based Rockwell Group in 1984. The firm’s numerous projects include W Hotels, Nobu restaurants, Broadway set designs and an innovative children’s playground in downtown Manhattan.
Fashion designer Yeohlee Teng established her company, Yeohlee, in 1981. She won the Fashion Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2004, and her work is in the Costume Institute collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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