For its second UNICEF Gala, the Friends of UNICEF Committee’s dedicated team had three goals: To host a benefit evening commensurate with the spectacular inaugural edition the year previous, go the extra mile in honour of the outstanding humanitarian organization’s special 70th anniversary (marked in December 2016) and, most importantly, continue to lend invaluable support to the organization that has made children in crisis its number one priority since inception, saving more children around the world than any other humanitarian organization on the planet. Mission accomplished. Committee founder / event co-chair BITA CATTELAN, co-chair, celeb chef ANTONIO PARK and their dream team, including proud presenting sponsor MONTBLANC, masterminded an evening of glamour and elegance at the Ritz-Carlton Montreal, that rapidly emerged as one of the hottest tickets in town. Photography GEORGE PIMENTEL