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May 17, 2004, Volume IV, Number 81

Meanwhile Saturday night, amidst the thunder-n-lightning and the torrential rains flash-flooding the streets of Manhattan, reports Chris Prendergast for NYSD, The Friends of Susan Shin celebrated her birthday at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in Chelsea. High-powered party organizers, including Olivia Chantecaille, Vivienne Tam, Alexandra Lind-Rose and Leslie Stevens, mobilized a courageous contingent who ventured fearlessly below 57th street to show their love and appreciation for a very special girl.

The girls bypassed the usual material objects for something far more personal and appropriate; artist Jeff Scher was commissioned to produce an original, three-dimensional animated film that would capture the night's theme: "Birth of A Goddess". Scher, whose multi-layered creations are part of the permanent collection at MoMA, the Academy Film Archives and Musee d'art Moderne, painstakingly combined hundreds of background sketches and portraits to produce a distinctly ethereal vision of the Birthday Girl -and presented it to her only after she was led into the room blindfolded!

Ms. Shin who is well known on the charity circuit around town - ranging from the Asia Society, to The Young Friends of Save Venice, is also a high powered Intellectual Properties attorney by day, and the crowd reflected both worlds: Tinsley Mortimer, Anand Jon, Coralie Charriol, Daniel Barth, Roy Teeluck, Elisabeth Kieselstein Cord, Kat Cohen, Alex Scarsini, Ali Larter, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Carre Otis, Jeremy Lew, Christian Leone, Eduardo de la Renta, Damon Johnson, Doug Dechert, Carol Bell, Ron Schein and Gigi Sih.