Lanvin ’s artistic director Peter Copping was honored at the French Heritage Society’s Art Deco Ball Wednesday night in New York, which marked the house’s latest cultural touchstone.

Guests first heard from the organization’s special events chairman CeCe Black, chairman Elizabeth F. Stribling, president Denis de Kergorlay, incoming chairman Timothy Corrigan and the incoming president Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville d’Hérouville at the seated dinner at the Metropolitan Club. Copping received the award from WWD’s and Fairchild Media’s chief content officer James Fallon. Heritage Auctions’ Nick Dawes led a live auction that helped to raise more than $500,000 for the society’s efforts and the Alex Donner Orchestra performed.

Raised in Oxfordshire, the designer first studied at Central Saint

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