Gossip Gloria is reliably informed that preparations are well underway for the inaugural Incipio Ball to be held on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt this evening. Before you go rushing out in search of tickets however—don’t bother. With an invitation-only guest list, this much anticipated event will be enjoyed exclusively by a happy huddle of the Foundation’s two hundred or so members of its inner circle. And with its presiding chairman none other than Britain’s oh-so eligible—if frustratingly reclusive—Adam Cooper, the invite-only guest list is likely to send more than one Sydney socialite into a spiral of broken dreams. With its name drawn upon the Latin word for ‘taking in hand’, the Incipio Foundation was established in the UK by Adam Cooper’s heavily titled late wife, The Hon Ms Ellen Blackwood, younger daughter of Peter Blackwood, 7th Baron Blackwood and the late Lady Blackwood. Ellen Blackwood, a well-known London artist, lost her battle with cancer just months after establishing the Foundation, five years ago today.
