Get ready for an amazing evening.

6:00 pm

Red carpet champagne arrival, HIlton Anatole Tower Entrance 

Guest check-in, Trinity Pre-function

Silent auction and cocktail reception

7:15 pm

Doors open for dinner, Trinity Ballroom 

7:45 pm  

Welcome, awards, dinner and live auction

9:15 pm 

Smoking Haute runway show

10:20 pm 

Belvedere Smoking Haute Backstage Celebration

Silent auction begins closing starting 30 minutes after the Smoking Haute runway show

11:00 pm 

All auction items are closed but, the celebration continues… 

If you don’t have your tickets, click here to make sure you don’t miss Smoking Haute DIFFA 2012.

Rihanna dons a revealing jacket with sexy cut-outs at the Jean-Paul Gaultier ready-to-wear fashion show during Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010.

The jacket will be auctioned at DIFFA Smoking Haute to raise funds for North Texas HIV/AIDS charities. 

Join us at Smoking Haute, Saturday March 31, at the Hilton Anatole for your chance to bid on this one-of-a-kind item.

Click here for tickets.

The DIFFA/Dallas Board of Trustees is excited to announce Collection 2012 Smoking Haute.

This year’s event takes place on Saturday March 31 at the Hilton Anatole and celebrates a reinvention of classic fashion.

In 1966 Yves Saint Laurent introduced Le Smoking, a tailored fitted tuxedo jacket for women. A revolutionary idea that brought traditional male tailoring to the feminine form.

We reinvent this fashion classic in 2012 with top name designers from around the county interpreting the Smoking Jacket with one-of-a kind couture designs for both men and women.

Join us in a black tie celebration of fashion and design. Experience a silent auction including smoking jackets, live auction, dinner, an amazing runway show, theater, after party, spectacle and excitement in a way that only DIFFA can deliver. All benefiting North Texas HIV/AIDS charities.

Don’t miss Smoking Haute DIFFA Collection 2012.

Click to purchase your tickets, your table or your VIP couture table experience. 

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Smoking Haute photography by Maxine Helfman; retouching by Keith Weinman; talent, styling, hair & makeup by The Kim Dawson Agency; wardrobe & accessories by Neiman Marcus NorthPark, Forty Five Ten, VOD, Archive Vintage, Tootsies, Betty Reiter & Grange Hall.

Robert Deyber

 

Hare He Comes Again Artist Tour

 

Friday, February 10^th from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Martin Lawrence Galleries

13550 Dallas Parkway

Third Floor, Adjacent to Saks Fifth Avenue

 

10% of event sales will go to benefit DIFFA Dallas

 

 

 

Martin Lawrence Galleries invites you to be enlightened by Robert Deyber’s most recent original paintings and lithographs. We will be unveiling multiple new works by this celebrated artist during his February tour.

Robert Deyber’s artwork is full of surprises. Every canvas revels in the artist’s sense of humor, each painting a visual rendering of a clever turn on a common phrase. Despite his sense of fun, however, Robert Deyber is a seriously skilled painter. He is endlessly intrigued by visual imaginings that reside in the realm between reality and fantasy, and he is clearly able to render these imaginings brilliantly. His artwork is highly narrative in nature; his paintings convey an almost dreamlike quality to the bemused viewer.

Born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Deyber began drawing at an early age. Art was a necessary means of escape from an otherwise difficult world, one in which he set his mind free to visit the most remote places—a wheat field in South Dakota, the dunes of the Gobi desert, the moons of Jupiter—all within easy reach for a very imaginative young boy.

Throughout his paintings, Robert Deyber moves in and out of visual themes and story lines. Compelled to create imagery where he uses a combination of highly stylized composition, light and contrasting colors, his goal is to apply all three skillfully, thereby drawing the viewer into his painting without overpowering or confusing.

Deyber is a ‘visual raconteur’—a storyteller with a paintbrush, his mind’s eye planted deep within the subconscious. With artistic roots that hail from the Surrealist movement, among his heroes are Rene Magritte and Salvator DalÍ. While many of Deyber’s paintings contain elements derived from dreams created out of the unpredictable imagery found in the subconscious, the extraterrestrial flowers have more in common with the worlds of alternate natural history imagined by Alexis Rockman or Walton Ford, and the visual rendition of current phraseology and popular culture are more in the tradition of the Pop Art movement. It is, in the end, the undecided tone between sincerity and irony that makes Robert Deyber’s artwork distinctly contemporary, his visual vocabulary distinctly his own, but with a worldwide audience.

Deyber collectors transcend all traditional boundaries. Private and corporate collectors throughout the United States as well as throughout Europe and Asia have acquired Deyber’s paintings. His work has strong appeal and continues to be collected by many in the entertainment industry, including independent film producers, well-known screenwriters and designers. Tom Petty and his wife Dana are Deyber collectors, commissioning the artist to create imagery for Petty’s album Highway Companion.

Robert Deyber’s career has taken him all over the world. He lived for a while in the Umbria region of Italy, and also lived for a time in San Francisco and New York before moving to Boston. He currently resides in Connecticut and is exclusively represented by Martin Lawrence Galleries.

Check out Arnold Wayne Jones’ article From DIFFA to the Stage, John Ahrens has Witnessed the Evolving Art of HIV: Dallas Voice

 

Check out Scenes from DIFFA: Photos by Chuck Dube/MarceloMedia.com for Dallas Voice

Check out Raya Ramsey’s write up The DIFFA Event is Over for Now, but the Photos Live On: D Magazine

Check out Cynthia Smoot‘s posting DIFFA Dallas Dramatically Different: Pink Memo