Flowers, Fuchsia and Emma Heming Willis’s New Philanthropic Fund: Inside AFTD’s 2026 Hope Rising Benefit

The Ziegfeld Ballroom has seen its share of grand evenings, but the 10th annual Hope Rising Benefit, hosted by the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, certainly stood out among them. Candlelit tables topped with towering floral arrangements overwhelmed the space in the best way possible, the chandeliers casting a warm glow over a sea of pink and red to create the kind of atmosphere that makes workaday midtown Manhattan briefly feel like somewhere else entirely.

The benefit chair was...