MODEL CHANGE-OVER: BMW auto dealer Brian Jessel is getting fashion hungry, as witnessed by a self-named glossy publication featuring several photos of himself spiffed up in the Harry Rosen manner. His Boundary Road showroom also hosts a Hugo Boss fashion show named Cabriolet, which recently benefited the BC Women's Hospital's gynecological program and the Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital.

Those recipients resonated with Allwest Insurance president Devina Zalesky, whose firm was an event sponsor. She'd just learned that surgery and treatment had knocked out a breast cancer diagnosed some months ago. Although someone had nabbed the delayed Zalesky's reserved seat, news like that would leave anybody floating on air.

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