White night.(Brief Article)

he fourth 7th on Sale gala, which also celebrated the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners, was truly spectacular as 400 glamorous shoppers, from designers to celebrities to socialites, came out to raise money-more than $1.6 million-for HIV/AIDS charities. Skylight Studios, a large downtown event space, had been completely transformed for the night by the creative team at Ralph Lauren, vice president Charles Fagan and Alfredo Paredes, into a winter wonderland of frosted birch trees, fake snow, and icebergs, interspersed with animal props from the set of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

For the benefit sample sale, which was chaired by designers Kenneth Cole, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, and eBay's Meg Whitman, 350 donors gave $6.5 million worth of housewares, accessories, and children's, men's, and women's clothing. No sooner had the black-tie crowd entered the space than everything from an Irving Penn print valued at $18,000 to a Rochas evening dress (worth $25,000; priced at $5,000) flew ...