HEAD = Piemontes Step Out in Style for CASA

The 2026 CASA on the Catwalk annual luncheon and fashion show had an extra benefit for this year’s attendees. For the first time, guests were invited to an after-party sponsored by Gypsy Kitchen. The restaurant, which is normally closed for lunch, opened especially for Catwalk attendees and donated 10% of earnings to Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

 

Gypsy Kitchen is one of the Southern Property Hospitality Group’s restaurants. Forest Lane resident J.P. Piemonte is the group’s managing partner and his wife Raquel recently joined as an events sales manager.

 

“I have started getting involved with the restaurants now that our girls are older,” Raquel says. “I was always in management then stayed home for years. I’m dipping my toe into different parts of the business. It’s been fun.” The Piemontes’ daughters are now 15 years old (Gabriela) and 11 years old (Giuliana).

 

Gypsy Kitchen and sister restaurant Southern Gentleman are located at Buckhead Village. This year, the CASA fashion show featured spring looks from women’s clothing shops at Buckhead Village.

 

Raquel modeled in the show. She wore an Alice & Olivia skirt and top. Models were from all walks of life, many tied to CASA’s work of supporting court-appointed child advocates. “I met a lot of great women,” Raquel notes. “From Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, entrepreneurs, authors, attorneys, medical professionals.”

 

About 50 people attended the after-party. The luncheon was held on Tuesday, April 14, at the Cherokee Town and Country Club.

 

 

 

 

HEAD = Cathy Boston Supports Cancer Research

SUBHEAD = Winship Cancer Institute’s Fashion a Cure

 

Stovall Boulevard resident Cathy Boston, along with three other HOME Luxury Real Estate agents, split a presenting sponsorship for the annual Fashion A Cure fundraiser for Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute. The sponsorship level is the event’s highest.

 

The fashion show and luncheon was held on Tuesday, April 28, at the Piedmont Driving Club. This year’s event raised over $650,000, a record for Fashion A Cure, and more than $200,000 above last year’s figure. More than 550 people attended the event. Models were either cancer survivors, caregivers, researchers, physicians, or volunteers.

 

“It’s a charity I feel strongly about,” says Cathy, a three-time cancer survivor who has been a Winship patient and sponsored Fashion A Cure at other levels in past years. “I want people to know you can get cancer and survive and live an amazing life afterward.”

 

With every home sale, agents donate to a charity fund. HOME and its agents have recently supported the Swan House Ball celebrating 100 years of the Atlanta History Center, Chastain Horse Park’s Bourbon & Burgers raising funds for equine therapy, and Bow Wow Brunch supporting the Atlanta Humane Society. Stroll Historic Brookhaven publisher Cynthia Carns and Historic Brookhaven resident Anne Park Hopkins were table sponsors for the Winship event.

 

The Winship Cancer Institute is a nonprofit cancer research and treatment center. If you would like to support Winship and its mission to bring hope through advances against cancer and improved treatments, visit https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/give/index.php.