A crowd of shopping pros showed up at the opening of Bottega Veneta in Boston Wednesday. RoAnn Costin of Cambridge settled on a mist — that’s fashionspeak for light gray — knit dress without even stepping out of the dressing room for peer approval. “Wait, I don’t get to see?” lamented Katherine Chapman Stemberg, one of the evening’s hosts. Chapman Stemberg, sporting a pink and black jacquard weave dress by Bottega, said proceeds from the party will benefit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which is poised to open an Italian exhibition of Renaissance sculpture drawings by Donatello, Michelangelo, and Cellini. She pointed to a hand-woven Bottega handbag, handled by a salesman wearing black gloves. “It’s architecture to me and the Gardner’s the same thing,” she said. Among those sipping champagne and nibbling mini pumpkin pots of chicken salad were Maggie Gold Seelig, Daniela Winston, Elizabeth Georgantas and Laura Baldini, who swiped her credit card for a pair of black open-toe, patent leather stilettos — then left wearing them. “I didn’t like my [ Alexander ] McQueens I had on so I swapped them,” she said.
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