The performance included a sea of illuminated orbs, held by performers clad in silver spandex. San Francisco company Got Light has similar fixtures, which they used at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Modern Ball in 2014. Got Light collaborated with Stanlee Gatti on the night's overall design.
Perry memorably made her entrance riding a giant metallic tiger puppet. A large puppet appeared at the YouthAIDS gala at Washington's Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner in 2007. Supplied by Creative Inflatables, the inflatable Moulin Rouge-style elephant was airbrushed with Indian drawings. The Los Angeles-based company also has three types of inflatable lions and an inflatable tiger.
The set of Perry's performance also featured an elevated stage that had flooring lit up with vibrant lights. For a similar look, Energy Floors offers human-powered, interactive dance floors for event rental worldwide. The eight-inch-deep tiles each house small generators; the tiles compress when stepped on, activating the generators to convert the kinetic energy produced by the dancers into electricity. The power can be used to activate the colorful LED light tubes inside the tiles that respond to the movement of dancers or nearby electrical systems.
Guests arriving at the January 27 Chanel haute couture show were met by a gigantic circular white garden installed beneath the dome of the Grand Palais in Paris. Designated entrances were built to help direct traffic flow as guests made their way in. The sub-roof was kept transparent to allow the sun's rays in.
Inside the luxuriant greenhouse, Karl Lagerfeld delivered his ode to springtime. Guests sat in one large circular formation on tiered rows, flanked on both sides by the faux garden.
It took six months to make the 300 flowers that decorated the Chanel set. Each flower had its own "engine" and burst into full technicolor mechanical bloom after a model at the show's start applied a theatrical "splash" from a CC-branded watering can.
Held at the Musée Rodin venue that designer Raf Simons has utilized for the majority of his Dior shows, the January 26 Dior haute couture show, which had guests enter a stark white box, appeared deceivingly simple. Inside, however, the fully mirrored venue was revealed to be a spiral of glossy white metal scaffolding. Produced by Bureau Betak, the runway was a catwalk that snaked upwards in circles, with guests seated on multiple levels as the models paraded up and down on wall-to-wall soft pink carpeting.
Stefano Pilati's January 17 menswear show for Ermenegildo Zegna was held at the CityLife Palace on the Piazza VI Febbraio (the site of Milan's former fairgrounds) in order to accommodate not only a sizable runway set, but to also seat as many as 1,000 guests. Urban Production oversaw the undertaking, which featured nearly two dozen different species of plants, including aucuba, fern, oat grass, medlar trees, and viburnum thymus.
Massive mounds of earth surrounded a live deciduous forest, with a soundtrack of birdcalls and rolling thunder playing overhead that further accentuated the show's eco slant. The vegetation, inspired by Oasi Zegna, a company-funded reserve in the Biella Alps, will subsequently be replanted in the region's Biella mountains.
Champagne label Veuve Clicquot hosted a promotion called "Yelloweek" in Toronto May 5 to 11. A kickoff party for the series of events was held at Thompson Rooftop Lounge on May 1. Bubbly was served on tray tables covered in grass and daisies. Melissa Andre Events handled production.
Hanging replicas of hot-air balloons also played into the whimsical decor.
