Dogs in Poofy Dresses. You’re Welcome.

At the Fifth Annual International Cotillion, 70 entrants strutted their stuff to benefit rescue animals.

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ZZ couldn’t stop smiling all night.

Her pink and white organza gown swooshed behind her as she sashayed through the New Yorker Hotel. Pearls dripped from the top of her tiara to the end of her train. She looked determined to take home the night’s crown title: Miss Cotillion .

“I know she’s happy, and I know she likes the dress,” said Ilene Zeines, dressed in a more demure black strapless gown. “If she doesn’t like the dress, she is not going to wear it. She is going to bite me.”