After months and months of more dramatic developments than Elizabeth Taylor’s eight marriages or the Kardashians’ domestic travails, the hopes and dashed hopes for the Neiman Marcus flagship store in downtown Dallas were nearing an end, with closure of “business as usual” at the legendary luxury retailing institution slated for Wednesday, September 30.
So, how fitting it was that, after the store’s five decades of supporting Crystal Charity Ball, one of the last suppers to take place in Neiman’s Zodiac Room was the Crystal Charity Ball Platinum Dinner on Tuesday, September 8. Those in the heady dinner crowd included Gene Jones, Charlotte Jones and Amir Rozwadowski, Robyn and Don Conlon, Lisa and Clay Cooley, Gail Fischer and Ken Christensen, Gracie Hunt with fiancee Derek Green, Bonnie and Ed Harding, Monica and Brent Christopher and Sunie and Steve Solomon.
While 2026 10 Best Dressed Jacquelin Sewell Atkinson and 2026 10 Best Dressed Honorary Chair Nancy Nasher were unable to attend, the remaining 2026 10 Best Dressed (Haley Anderson, Julie Bagley, Shannon Graham, Erin Mathews, Tracey Kozmetsky, Tracy Lange, Felicia Powell and Katherine Wyker), Hall of Famer Tavia Hunt, 2026 CCB Chair Jennifer Dix and 2026 CCB 10 Best Dressed Fashion Show Chair Kim Quinn gathered on the store’s first floor for a group photo.
Instead of being a wake for the building, the evening was filled with memories being shared and longtime designer Carolina Herrera fashions onsite. A highlight of the cocktail party on the second level was a lineup of mannequins representing the 10 BD-ers and the honorary chair with notes of their NM memories.
A little history: It was back in 1975 when Crystal Charity Ball Chair Lyda Hill announced that the second Crystal Charity Ball Fashion Show Brunch would be held in the Zodiac Room as part of a three-day event supporting the year’s beneficiaries — Children’s Medical Center Intensive Care Unit and Dean Memorial Learning Center…