XIX Most Fashionable Women in Philadelphia

The sixth-annual event celebrated Philly’s most fashionable, most philanthropic women.

Last Monday night, the Sixth Annual XIX Most Fashionable Women in Philadelphia were honored at the restaurant XIX in the Hyatt at the Bellevue. Created six years ago as the signature event of the Philadelphia Collection, the annual event recognizes extraordinary women who are not only fashionable, but philanthropic.

The women (listed alphabetically):

  • Alice Bast, President & CEO, National Foundation of Celiac Awareness
  • Emily Bittenbender, Managing Partner, Bittenbender Construction, LP
  • Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, Council’s Majority Whip, Committee Chair on the Environment, Vice Chair of the Committee on Education
  • Wendy Clark, Lady B, The Voice of Hip Hop
  • Rosemary Connors, Journalist, NBC 10
  • Doreen Creede, Creator, Style Maniac, Editor-at-Large, Founder Magazine
  • Anne Ewers, President & CEO, The Kimmel Center Inc.
  • Varsovia Fernandez, President & CEO, Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • Valerie Gay, Executive Director, Art Sanctuary
  • Caryn Gubin, Director, Patient Care Services Medical Rehabilitation Centers of PA
  • Ursula Henwood Keating, Director, Workforce Diversity & Inclusion, Comcast
  • Stacy Holland, Executive Director, The Lenfest Foundation Doreen Holmgren, Philanthropist
  • Doreen Holmgren, Flyers Wives Charity
  • Mary Pat Kessler, Director, Member Relations Business Clubs of America
  • Karen Knudsen, Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Chair Department of Cancer Biology
  • Tiffany Newmuis, Director, Democratic National Convention
  • Lori Nicoletti Peruto, General Counsel, Philadelphia Suburban Development Corporation
  • Nicole Paloux, Owner, Red Balloon Public Relations, Theatre
  • Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, Council’s Majority Whip, Committee Chair on the Environment, Vice Chair of the Committee on Education
  • Cecilia Torres, Owner-Founder, Casa Papel
  • Ellen Yin, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of High Street Hospitality

They were joined by

  • Mary Dougherty, owner of Nicole Miller Philadelphia,
  • First Lady Lisa Nutter 
  • Janice Waitkus of Lagos

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