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PHOTOGRAPHY BY LISA RICHOV (INTO THE WILD); MICHAEL BLANCHARD (ON THE JOB) Into the Wild The natives were restless to meet handbag designer Ethan Koh at a reception hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue Boston and Sinesia Karol. Koh met with private clients earlier in the day in the Fifth Avenue Club to discuss bespoke pieces and Ethan K's new Wizard of the Secret Garden collection, which features beautiful bags in an array of colors, clasped with bejeweled hedgehogs, bumblebees, and ducks. Guests, including Ashley Bernon, Pramy Yadav, and Janet Wu, browsed the new collection and mingled with Koh. On the Job It was a funk-filled evening of 1970s music when The Family Stone pumped up the dance floor at the The Perkins Possibilities Gala on May 1. Six hundred guests gathered at the Perkins school for the blind's Watertown campus, where they raised more than $1.6 million for Perkins's global mission to educate blind and deaf-blind students. Corinne Grousbeck, the Perkins board chair-elect, cochaired the gala with local philanthropist Bill Schawbel and Friends producer and Emerson College professor Kevin Bright. Dave Power, a business strategist and parent of a Perkins graduate, made his first appearance as the organization's new CEO and president. A wise-cracking Lenny Clarke ran the live auction, and Wyc Grousbeck unveiled the pioneering Perkins-Business Partnership to take aim at a high jobless rate among adults who are blind. Ethan Koh and Sinesia Karol Andrea Brooks and Suhail Kwatra Jed Lowrie Corinne Grousbeck Pramy Yadav and Ashley Bernon A bright pink Ethan K bag. Rimma Gluzman and Stacey Lucchino Kevin Bright Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca George Regan and Emily Rooney JoJo and Deb White Jadine Greenaway and Alexandra McGuigan Dave and Helene Power Sketches for a new bag. Clasp options for Ethan K bags. Janet Wu Paula Garcia BOSTONCOMMON-MAGAZINE.COM 35 INVITED