Bal Harbour Shops Hosts the Launch of Theater of Shopping

Photography by on March 6th, 2019 in Bal Harbour Shops, Lifestyle

Randy Whitman, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, & Alastair Gordon

Bal Harbour, FL – March 6, 2019 – Bal Harbour Shops invited guests to the launch of Theater of Shopping: The Story of Stanley Whitman’s Bal Harbour Shops published by Rizzoli and Gordon de Vries Studio. Over 100 guests joined in the center courtyard of Bal Harbour Shops for an intimate conversation with Randy Whitman (Chairman, Whitman Family Development), Matthew Whitman Lazenby (President & CEO, Whitman Family Development), Alastair Gordon (author), and Barbara de Vries (co-author) moderated by Mitchell Kaplan (owner of Books & Books and co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International) as they celebrated retail visionary Stanley Whitman – often called the Walt Disney of retail – and the creation of Bal Harbour Shops, the most successfully luxury fashion center in the world.

Randy Whitman, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, & Alastair Gordon

Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, & Barbara de Vries

Mitchell Kaplan

Randy Whitman, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, & Alastair Gordon

Alastair Gordon

Barbara de Vries & Alastair Gordon

Randy Whitman

Matthew Whitman Lazenby

Randy Whitman, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, & Alastair Gordon

Randy Whitman, Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, & Alastair Gordon

Mitchell Kaplan, Barbara de Vries, Randy Whitman, & Gigi Whitman

Alastair Gordon, Cherl Stephenson, Mitchell Kaplan, & Barbara de Vries

Alastair Gordon & Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard

Elysze Held & Hadley Henriette

Gillian Hotz & Hadley Henriette

Elysze Held, Mitchell Kaplan, & Barbara de Vries

Carolyn Travis, Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard, & Nina Miguel

Juan Ascencio & Henry Rueda

Matthew Whitman Lazenby & Kristin Lazenby

Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard & Lisa Sayfie

Kristian Anderson & Rosemarie Friedman

Suzie Sayfie & Cherl Stephenson

Kristin Lazenby, Matthew & Gwen Whitman Lazenby

Don Browne, Gwen Whitman Lazenby, & James Grippando

Silvia Barisione, Ramon Garcia, & Kat Elagina

Don Browne & Jennifer Valoppi

Suzie Sayfie, Schatzi Kassal, Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard, Lola Jacobson, & Gillian Hotz