Tory Burch Hosts Celebration Dinner With Isabela Grutman and Rachael Russell Saiger in Miami
Tory Burch descended on the city of Miami on Tuesday to celebrate the launch of her spring 2024 collection.
The fete began at the designerâs Design District store, where she cohosted a cocktail event with Isabela Grutman and Rachael Russell Saiger, founders of Style Saves. A percentage of proceeds from all purchases at Burchâs store benefited the Miami-based nonprofit, which aids thousands of students and their families with school essentials, new clothing, school uniforms, food assistance and maternity needs.
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The evening culminated at Miami Beachâs Casa Tua, where Burch, Grutman and Russell Saiger hosted a dinner on the patio of the historic villa, surrounded by a lush garden oasis, and tables adorned with linens and plates from the Tory Burch Home collection.
âIâm really excited about the direction that Tory is going with this new collection. I think itâs so chic, I think the lines and the textures are really innovative. Iâve been a fan of hers, obviously, for a long time, sheâs been doing this damn thing. But Iâm really loving how sheâs envisioning the female silhouette and how sheâs accentuating that with pleats and all kinds of the textures that sheâs using. Itâs really, really cool,â said actress and singer Alexandra Shipp.
Shipp, who is coming off the heels of Oscars weekend, also shared details about her next feature film.
âI have a movie that Iâm starting in May and Iâm really excited about that. Itâs called âMidnightâ and it stars Mila Jovovich, Rosario Dawson and myself. Itâs a really fun action film, so Iâm excited to kind of dive into that. I havenât done stunts like this since âX-Men,â and Iâm going to start my fight training and start doing little hand-to-hand combat and kind of dust off the cobwebs,â Shipp added.
âItâs something completely different to what I expected and suddenly I feel really good about it because it makes me feel like a princess but at the same time I feel sexy and very contemporary and I think everyone looks so good,â said Grutman, who was wearing one of Burchâs hoop dress designs from the Spring collection.
As the dinner began, Burch took a moment to acknowledge the various attendees, which resembled a celebration of women empowerment. âMiami was founded by a woman 130 years ago, and I was inspired to learn that. One of the things Iâm obsessed with is that women are not included in history, and we have to be better at that and Iâm so excited to be here,â Burch said.
âWhat I love about Tory, sheâs such a female supporter and supportive of female entrepreneurs. Everything sheâs doing from philanthropy, to really supporting other women, you know I find that always super beautiful and inspiring, we all need that, we all need those strong leading women that uplift other women,â said model and entrepreneur Karolina Kurkova.
âI think when youâre a designer, youâre evolving and you want to try different things, right? I think itâs important to sometimes try new things and you see what works and what doesnât. Customers appreciate and welcome something different, but you donât know until you try so I think itâs wonderful. And I think even for her, when your brand has been around for so many years and many seasons, you need to sometimes open up your horizons and try something different,â added Kurkova.
Other guests included The Websterâs Laure HĂ©riard Dubreuil, Aaron Young, Lucrezia Buccellati, Martha Graeff, Nina Johnson, Ria Michelle, Nordstromâs Rickie de Sole and Tory Burch chief executive officer Pierre-Yves Roussel.
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