{"id":398170,"date":"2026-08-05T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398170\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:54:19","slug":"a-scion-of-a-billionaire-houston-family-steps-into-the-citys-best-dressed-ranks-gillian-sarofim-brings-style-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398170\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scion of a Billionaire Houston Family Steps Into the City’s Best Dressed Ranks \u2014 Gillian Sarofim Brings Style and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Houston Best Dressed honorees represent a cross section of backgrounds, interests and ages with two unifying characteristics. Each has an altruistic interest in contributing to the Bayou City and each has a defining style. The philanthropic femmes will be saluted on September 15 at the Post Oak Hotel luncheon benefiting March of Dimes.<\/p>\n

In this special series, we are profiling each of the 2026 Houston Best Dressed honorees leading up to the PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Houston Best Dressed Luncheon & Neiman Marcus Fashion Presentation. Next Up: Gillian Sarofim.<\/p>\n

A scion of the uber-wealthy philanthropic Sarofim family<\/a>, this magnanimous millennial is following the family tradition of community service and financial generosity as she elegantly swans through Houston\u2019s nonprofit social scene.<\/p>\n

\"GillianGillian Sarofim in Alexander McQueen<\/p>\n

Sarofim recently co-chaired Discovery Green\u2019s biennial fundraiser<\/a> as well as the Bayou Bend fashion show luncheon<\/a>. She is a key player in the Astrodome Conservancy\u2019s Dome Society, the young professionals group fighting to save the Eight Wonder of the World from demolition and also counts Glasstire and Media for Texas among her altruistic interests.<\/p>\n

Memorable quote:\u00a0\u201cYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.\u201d \u2014 Dr. Seuss<\/p>\n

\"ChairChair Gillian Sarofim, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston director Gary Tinterow at the 2026 Bayou Bend Fashion Show and Luncheon (Photo by Wilson Parish)
\nThe Style Survey<\/p>\n

Favorite designers: Adam Lippes, Sandro, McQueen, Pucci<\/p>\n

Style icon: Dakota Johnson<\/p>\n

Your go-to outfit:\u00a0My favorite RE-DONE jeans<\/a>, white T-shirt (my favorite is currently J.Crew), Chanel ballet flats, chunky jewelry<\/p>\n

Fragrance: Depending on the moment Byredo Mojave Ghost and Chanel Mademoiselle<\/p>\n

What is the one accessory that you cannot live without: \u201cMy watch. I can\u2019t stand to be late.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GillianFirst-time Best Dressed honoree Gillian Sarofim with Ceron at the Palais des Affaires \u00c9trang\u00e8res in Paris in June.<\/p>\n

Favorite beauty product: Av\u00e8ne Cicalfatge+<\/p>\n

Books on your coffee table: My new favorite coffee table book is the one I recently made with a collection of photos from my most recent trip to Africa. Also The Big Book of Chic by Miles Redd, Taschen\u2019s Helmut Newton, Assouline\u2019s Paris by Paris<\/p>\n

Travel destination that inspires: Asia \u201cI cannot wait to travel to Japan and re-explore Thailand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite hotel in the world: Hotel du Cap-Eden-Rock<\/a>, Antibes, France<\/p>\n

Tell us something about you that would surprise people: \u201cI am an avid needle-pointer. I am currently finishing my ninth piece for 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Best Dressed Luncheon and Neiman Marcus Fashion Presentation benefiting March of Dimes are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Houston Best Dressed honorees represent a cross section of backgrounds, interests and ages…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-398170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}