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"  If diamonds are a girl&amp;#039;s best friend, the best way to buy them is when a percentage of the sales also benefit charity. At an intimate cocktail party on Thursday held at a private townhouse on the Upper East Side, guests gathered to browse Lauren X Khoo fine jewelry for a New Yorkers For Children event in honor of the launch of the designer&amp;#039;s collection. &amp;quot;I majored in visual arts arts and architectural styles. I wanted to be an architect,&amp;quot; said Khoo, whose family owned the spectacular, multi-floor townhouse (the young designer said she personally &amp;quot;shuffles between Hong Kong and New York.&amp;quot;) Some of the favorite pieces of the guests, which included Deborra-Lee Furness, Beth Ostrosky Stern, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Marisa Brown, Nicole Esposito, Dori Cooperman, Clare McKeon, Ann Caruso, Susan Shin, Kelly Behun Sugarman, Allison Aston, and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, were a movable serpent ring, and the X Collection, which is a series of full-length bendable rings, made in many precious materials.  It&amp;#039;s my signature piece,&amp;quot; Khoo explained of the rings, which she says she numbers one to fifty in the limited collection, but &amp;quot;removes all of the fours since the number four is bad luck in Asia, so the collection actually has less than fifty&amp;quot; total. Partnering with New Yorkers For Children, which works in partnership with the Administration for Children&amp;#039;s Services with a focus on children in foster care, seemed like an obvious choice to Khoo. &amp;quot;Since I was a little girl, I&amp;#039;ve been taught to always give back,&amp;quot; the designer said, adding: &amp;quot;I love little kids.&amp;quot;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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