Charlotte Hinton, marketing coordinator for Colony Square, on the runway PHOTO BY RAFTERMAN

RUNWAY STARS Celebrities and Bert’s Big Adventure kids hit the runway to model designs from Avalon retailers at the eighth annual Noon to Night: Fall Fashion Benefit at Avalon, a fundraiser for the local nonprofit that supports chronically and terminally ill children—one of several September events that kicked off the city’s busy fall social season. Here, we highlight the month’s other sophisticated soirees and give a full rundown of the rest of the year’s can’t-miss parties on Atlanta’s medical social scene.