White: Purity, Innocence, Empowerment, Goodness, Cleanliness

More than 1,200 guests donned white garb for the fresh concept of Dîner en Blanc’s flash-mob-style dinner in New York in 2011.
Photo: Mark Addison

Set inside Openhouse's gallery-like space, UrbanDaddy and Stoli's "white room" event put 350 guests in a white-on-white setting. To match the decor, Stoli models wore white and, in a nod to the vodka brand's logo, their look included red body paint and make up.
Photo: Carolyn Curtis/BizBash

Lucite chairs, candles, and sleek white linens dressed the 150-foot tables.
Photo: Powell Photography Inc./Greg Davis

The 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards gala in Los Angeles had a striking but simple look, with bunches of upside-down calla lillies hanging overhead. White furnishings were arranged in lounge-like formations.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography

In 2006, nonprofit art organization Performa instructed its guests to wear white—the combined "canvas" of their outfits served as moving screens for colorful video projections produced by Gerrit Vooren and Brian Miller of Reels4Artists.
Photo: Dan Morgan

For Diffa's New York Dining by Design benefit in 2004, Robert Rufino of luxury jewelry company Tiffany crafted a towering centerpiece of white feathers and strings of iridescent beads. The structure was surrounded by small bunches of white flowers at the base. Other touches included marabou boas, which draped the backs of the chairs, and a white rug.
Photo: BizBash

The Joffrey Ballet's spring gala
Photo: Powell Photography Inc./Greg Davis

Three-layers of acrylic shelving were accented with wild white flowers and green vines for the all-white-chocolate sushi display from Ginger Island.
Photos: BizBash

The CS Interiors by Neff of Chicago display had all-white decor. Touches included prop white birds at each place setting and fluffy white pillows on chairs.
Photo: Barry Brecheisen Photography for BizBash

The Giselle gala at the Harris Theater this year boasted all-white decor with large, transparent cubes that were suspended from the ceiling in the dining area. Ferns and white freesia dotted the table tops.
Photo: Robert Carl

White-lacquered bamboo divides the room and white fringe embellishes the venue's chandeliers.
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Three Events topped tables with tall cone-shaped Plexiglas towers that projected different colours onto white mannequin heads held within.
Photo: Gary Beechey