Mid-Winter Gala at the de Young, 2009

The Junior Committee of the Fine Arts Museums presented its sixth annual Mid-Winter Gala at the de Young Museum on March 14, 2009. Some 500 fashionably dressed attendees dined and then danced the night away to Wonderbread Five. Co-chairs Kathryn Lasater and Allison Speer handpicked the guest list, made up of those they described as “ … the next generation of prominent young couples and individuals of San Francisco and the Bay Area who have an interest in the arts.”

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprised of the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the City.

Kelley Phleger (in Ralph Rucci) with Don Johnson; Vandy Boudreau (in Carolina Herrera) with Honorary Chair Vanessa Getty (in a gown of her own design)

George Bolton and Lindsay Bolton (in Reem Acra); Kate Chung (in Ungaro) with David Chung

Michelle Meany (in Carolina Herrera) with Laura Sweeney (in Gucci)

Shell Cardon and Craig Cardon

Bo Lasater and Mid Winter Gala Co-Chair Kathryn Lasater (in Carolina Herrera); Dr. Fred Moll with Co-Chair Allison Speer (n Dolce & Gabbana); Alexis Traina with Honorary Chair Trevor Traina

Photos by Drew Altizer Photography

— Related: Red Carpet Bay Area coverage of more Mid-Winter Gala events:

• They Wore Dior (to the Mid-Winter Gala 2015)
• More than Dior at the Mid-Winter Gala 2015
• Red Carpet Style at the Mid-Winter Gala 2014