Marie Laffont and Polina Zakharova’s World Cancer Day Dinner To Benefit The Pink Agenda

A purposeful, glamorous gathering of the art and fashion worlds, shoe designer Marie Laffont’s World Cancer Day dinner with Polina Zakharova raised funds to benefit The Pink Agenda, a nonprofit in support of breast cancer research and care. “This evening was born from a very personal place. Polina Zakharova and I wanted to create something intimate and meaningful—not around fashion, but around humanity,” Laffont shared following the cocktail hour. “We are partners in this project, not because we share the same illness, but because we share loss. We both lost our mothers to cancer. And that absence leaves a space in you that is never truly filled.” Further, Laffont committed to donating 60 percent of the profits from her namesake brand’s derby shoes to The Pink Agenda.