2. Macy's Glamorama
#3 Fashion & Retail Event
Macy’s Glamorama includes live music, celebrity appearances, and an after-party. This year’s event will have a Beatles theme at the Orpheum Theatre followed by an after-party at the California Market Center. Next: September 7, 2012
Macy’s Glamorama includes live music, celebrity appearances, and an after-party. This year’s event will have a Beatles theme at the Orpheum Theatre followed by an after-party at the California Market Center. Next: September 7, 2012
Photo: Rebecca Sapp/WireImage
3. Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden
#3 Art & Design Event
Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden moves back to October this year (after a September shift in 2011), and will this year honor artists Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Next: October 6, 2012
Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden moves back to October this year (after a September shift in 2011), and will this year honor artists Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Next: October 6, 2012
Photo: Stefanie Keenan
5. Orange County Museum of Art’s Art of Dining Benefit
#5 Art & Design Event
One of the county’s most prominent social events, Orange County Museum of Art’s Art of Dining Benefit celebrated the museum’s Cartier-sponsored 50th anniversary on June 2 at the Montage Laguna Beach. Next: Spring 2013
One of the county’s most prominent social events, Orange County Museum of Art’s Art of Dining Benefit celebrated the museum’s Cartier-sponsored 50th anniversary on June 2 at the Montage Laguna Beach. Next: Spring 2013
Photo: Colin Young-Wolff
Todd Events made a wedding held inside a large barn in Aspen seem more intimate with two tall signature bars and scattered seating and food station vignettes. Hanging glass globes appeared to lower the ceilings.
Photo: Karlisch Wrubel Photography
For a wedding at the King Plow Event Gallery in Atlanta, Bold American Events & Catering designed an upside-down centerpiece of yellow tulips and glass globes that hung above the head table.
Photo: Our Labor of Love
Textured Ice Globes
For a birthday party, Kristi Amoroso Special Events designed a vodka shot bar that displayed bottles in a sculptural arrangement of textured ice spheres.
Photo: Nick Brown Photography
Baked by Melissa's cupcake pod machine can be rented for events in New York.
Photo: Courtesy of Baked by Melissa
New York City Wine & Food Festival
In the basement space of 82 Mercer, the New York City Wine & Food Festival's casino sponsor the Borgata created a lounge space that let attendees paint an interactive graffiti wall, which included chocolate "paint" and "spray paint."
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Tailgate-Style Decor
The festive, laid-back setting for Univision's Deportes launch earlier this year came courtesy of a taco truck and wooden picnic tables.
Photo: Brian Ach/AP Images for Univision
Invitations to Miu Miu’s three-night-only private members’ club at the Café Royal in London came in the form of an accordion file box with a magnetic closure that contained a full protocol rundown of the venue’s offerings, complete with a membership card.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
To celebrate its festive “Electric Holiday” windows and Disney partnership, Barneys fashioned a weighty invite with LED lights in four different colors that illuminated the double-mirrored glass to create an infinity effect.
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3. Vodka and Cigarettas
“Servers clad in traditional sarafans and kosovorotka garments pass Russian fare with a reworked twist, like 'Vodka and Cigarettas': Kobe beef- and Georgian lamb-filled pelmeni dough 'cigarettes' with pickled onion marmalade and mushroom dust ashes paired with mini bottles of vodka.” Catering by chef Saon Brice of Linwoods Catering in Maryland.
Photo: Artemas Mott
16. Contemporary Lounge Furniture
“Contemporary lounge furniture in the center of the room offers a rest from dancing.” Sofa from Lounge 22, available in Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, and other cities from Cort Events
Photo: Courtesy of Cort Events
60. One-Bite Hors D'oeuvres
“Guests dine on heavy hors d’oeuvres in one-bite, no-mess portions.” Salmon lollipops with dill cream cheese, nori, and garlic grass, by Wolfgang Puck Catering & Events
Photo: Azzura Photography
Neil Barrett
Neil Barrett is known for geometric cuts and mathematical exactitude in his designs, and the invitation for his spring 2011 men's show played up those ideas. Details for the show were printed on thick card stock packaged into an envelope, trompe l’oeil-style.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
Tod's
For the 2008 Tod's Art Plus Film party at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, British fashion designer Henry Holland designed a flip-book-style invitation that featured his cheeky drawings of notable figures in film, music, fashion, and the arts.
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Hermès
In a nod to its heritage as a purveyor of fine leather goods, Hermès, in past seasons, has issued fashion show invitations printed on various forms of its leather offerings. With some, the brand logo was embossed on the leather while with others, the "H" logo was perforated.
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Event Catering in Atlanta
Catering company A Divine Event creates eye-catching food displays that make a statement, including its Sticks, Spoons, and Shooters option for cocktail hour. The concept involves bite-size sweet or savory hors d’oeuvres served in shot glasses and on sticks or spoons.
Photo: Anna & Spencer Photography
20th Annual Destination & Travel Foundation Dinner & Dream Auction
Held at Washington's Walter E. Washington Convention Center on March 13, the event served dinner with wine provided by Virginia Tourism Corporation. The group's "Love Letters," inspired by the "Virginia Is for Lovers" tourism campaign, stood sentry in the reception space and became popular props for guest photos.
Photo: Chuck Fazio/D&T Foundation
Louis Vuitton's 2010 Cruise Collection and Saks Fifth Avenue In-Store Boutique Launch
An enormous hedge—comprised of vines, boxwood, daisies, Vanda orchids, and calla lilies—stood in one area of the event and served as an unofficial step-and-repeat for guests at the launch of Louis Vuitton's Saks Fifth Avenue boutique in New York.
Photo: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture
Private Wedding
For a wedding at Cipriani Wall Street, Beahm created three tree-like installations behind the head table.
Photo: Ron and Deb Photographers
Maya Romanoff and the Rockwell Group collaborated with the producers of Kinky Boots to create a dining environment that would celebrate the April 4 opening of the Broadway show. A chandelier of patent leather boots interspersed with red lightbulbs floated above the red tabletop, and the wall panels were designed to resemble laced-up corsets.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
The New York School of Interior Design led by Marc Blackwell set up a table that paid tribute to the fight against AIDS with a table runner composed of hundreds of red ribbons.
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David Stark returned to create an installation for paint company Benjamin Moore. The entire room—from the floor to the chandeliers—was painted in a kaleidoscope of colors, and on the back wall, an LED screen looped a video montage of Stark's team designing the space from start to finish.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
Bandolero served gold leaf caviar along with its gin cocktail of ginger beer, blood orange liqueur, and absinthe.
Photo: Chris Avery
Photo: Anneke Hymmen
Also at the Whitney Art Party in June, the hallway bars had illuminated displays composed of hundreds of individual lightbulbs that served as backdrops.
Photo: Carolyn Curtis/BizBash
