Happy 40th Birthday, Carol Bell!

Chic just hates to spill secrets, but we’re still going to reveal that The Patton Group’s co-president Carol Bell was fêted last night by 35 of her closest friends at Brasserie Cognac. The occasion? Her40ème anniversaire. Alison Brod, Dana Gers, Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Rory Hermelee, Kimberly OserLydia Fenet and more ate cheese puffs and various salad-based confections while Carol Brodie offered some inventive aging tips that needn’t be reprinted, really. Fret not, Ms. Bell–there were only three candles on that cake, after all.

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