Lycée Français de New York 
Gala 2020
The Lycée has made the decision to cancel Gala 2020. It is unlikely that New York City will lift its ban on large events by the end of the current school year, and the health and safety of our community remains our highest priority.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors and supporters for their very generous contributions to the Gala and the Lycée. We hope to celebrate with you in the future.
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Cipriani Wall Street 
Cocktail Reception, Dinner, Live and Silent Auction, and After Party
Gala 2020 Co-Chairs
Fabiola Beracasa Beckman
Natalya Poniatowski
Lauren Santo Domingo
Shirin von Wulffen
About
The Lycée Français de New York is pleased to announce its 21st Annual Gala, honoring Tory Burch with the Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle Award. 
Past Lycée Français de New York Galas have brought together more than 1,000 guests and have raised over $2.2 million in a single evening. Funds raised at the Gala directly benefit Lycée students in the form of scholarships and support for the school’s academic and co-curricular programming. Past honorees have included Gad Elmaleh, Sidney Toledano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Henry, Angélique Kidjo, and Hamdi Ulukaya. Proceeds support our efforts to make our extraordinary educational program available to students in need through scholarships and enhance academic and cultural initiatives at the school.
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The Lycée Français de New York is a non-profit, independent school founded in 1935 that welcomes more than 1,350 students, representing more than 60 nationalities, from nursery school through 12th grade. The school’s unique program combines French and American educational principles in a bilingual, culturally immersive curriculum that inspires students to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world.
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Honoree
Tory Burch is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC, an American lifestyle brand.
Tory launched the company in 2004 with a small boutique on Elizabeth Street in New York City as well as an ecommerce site. The brand has since grown into a global business with more than 300 boutiques from New York to Paris and Shanghai.
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Social responsibility was built into Tory’s business plan and has been a part of the company from its inception. In 2009, she launched the Tory Burch Foundation to advance women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship in the United States by providing access to capital, education and digital resources, as well as a Fellowship program. To date, over $50M in loans have been distributed to over 3,000 women entrepreneurs through the Foundation’s Capital Program powered by Bank of America.
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Tory also serves on several boards including the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Barnes Foundation and the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In addition, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a board member at the Riverdale Country School. 
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Tory has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the CFDA for Accessory Designer of the Year, Forbes’s Most Powerful Women in the World, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award and Glamour’s Women of the Year. Her first book, Tory Burch In Color (Abrams, 2014), was a New York Times Best Seller.
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A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in art history, Tory lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.

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