arts & Life >> fashion

GivingBack

Sharing with the

Lynne Konstantin
Arts & Life Editor

community is

always in style.

Here are three

ways to shop and

make a difference

this month.

ewelry- designer
Karen Egren and
clothing-designer Nina
McLemore play well together.
Egren's boutique, Karen Egren
Jewelry, and Nina McLemore
Studio, a national go-to name
for impeccable designs as strong
as the women wearing them,
share a space in a Birmingham
studio, newly renovated by
famed designer Ron Rea.
Sharing a desire for an invit-
ing atmosphere for their clients,
Egren and McLemore, whose
Birmingham space is managed
by Kathy Zanolli, worked with
Rea to create a loosely indus-
trialized space, softened with
comfortably chic couches and
floor-to-ceiling windows.
The pair had another goal in
mind when bringing their vision
for the space to life: to host
events that satisfy their desires
to give back to the community
around them. On Thursday, April
23, the pair will host a charity
partnership with Care House of

hors d'ouevres will be served
from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and personal
appointments are available from
9 a.m.-5 p.m. that day; 15 per-
cent of sales from April 20-27
will be donated to these charities
upon request.
In addition, from 11:30 a.m.-
1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19,
McLemore and Egren will part-
ner with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra for a Simply Chic
Musical Feast. Nibble on finger
sandwiches, sip mimosas and
stroll the shops while listening to
the Marcus Schoon Quartet. $90
per ticket, with proceeds benefit-
ing the DSO Volunteer Council;
a percentage of sales from April
19-24 will be donated to the DSO
upon request.

For details about both
events, call (248) 430-4365.
Also this month: Visit SHE
Bloomfield Hills to shop the

Veronica Beard Collection.
Launched by sisters-in-law
Veronica Miele Beard and
Veronica Swanson Beard
with their signature Dickey
Jacket, Veronica Beard is the
essence of low-key, wearable
luxe. Visit April 22-26, and
a portion of proceeds from
the collection will benefit
Humble Design, a Detroit-
based nonprofit providing
home furnishings for the
homeless. For details, call
(248) 594 8181 or visit
she-stores.com .

Veronica Beard Ruched Dress

❑

Oakland County and Variety
— the Children's Charity, co-
chaired by Jessie Beld-Elliott
and Ellen Rogers. Cocktails and

Nina McLemore suiting

NEVER FORGET
from page 59

THE

COST

OF

COURAGE

Karen Egren's pearl-and-diamond Karen Necklace (left) and silver-chain Riley Ring (right)

the Warsaw Ghetto is the narra-
tor of The Book of Aron: A Novel
($23.95; Random House; May 5).
Written by National Book Award
finalist Jim Shepard, the tragi-
comic novel sees Aron forced from
the Polish countryside into the
ghetto where he and other children
try to beat the odds as they elude
blackmailers, the Gestapo, police
and others seeking to stop them.
Along the way, he meets Dr. Janusz
Korczak, the real-life Polish advo-
cate of children's rights who had
accompanied the children from his
orphanage into the ghetto.

The Archive Thief The Man
Who Salvaged French Jewish
History in the Wake of the
Holocaust ($29.95; Oxford
University Press; June 12) tells the
saga of the morally ambiguous

■

64 April 16 • 2015

Zosa Szajkowski, who, after the
war, stole tens of thousands of doc-
uments from Nazi offices, French
synagogues and public archives
and collections. Lisa Moses Leff
wrote this quirky story about how
and why he did it, then spirited the
documents to New York, mined
them for his own research and sold
them to U.S. and Israeli libraries.
■ Alan Lelchuk's Searching for
Wallenberg: A Novel ($26.95;
Mandel Vilar Press) is a literary
detective story and love story about
a professor/novelist who sets out
for Eastern Europe to investigate
the disappearance of Swedish dip-
lomat Raoul Wallenberg 65 years
earlier. While looking for the man
who saved the lives of thousands
of Hungarian Jews, the professor
meets a woman claiming to be

SEARENIV1-
FOR
41R[I_ENBERG

1%•t i
;MAN LEHR

Frenah Jewish Planar, in the

deke oi the nolo...

LISA MOSES LEFF

Wallenberg's daughter. This novel-
within-a-novel is filled with multi-
ple layers and surprising characters
that, while fiction, lead to a deeper
understanding of what may have
happened to the disappeared hero.
■ Inspired by her father's Holocaust
experiences, Kathy Clark writes
for young readers about Jakob, a
13-year-old whose Jewish fam-
ily is trying to pass as Catholic in

Budapest during WWII. When
they are discovered to be Jewish,
Jakob believes he has been
betrayed by a friend and a desire
for revenge drives his will to sur-
vive. The Choice ($14.95; Second
Story Press) doesn't shy away from
the terror of the Holocaust, but is
ultimately a story of consequences,
friendship and a young man's
search for identity.

❑