At each stop, fans scored branded retro swag, including clear plastic fanny packs.
Skaff says people are feeling more confident in the economy, so colors are getting brighter and more vivid. The deep, rich colors of Spain, Italy, Egypt, and other Mediterranean countries will prevail, including golds, cinnabars, blues, and yellows. Consumers are also looking for finely crafted and one-of-a-kind items and interesting textures and patterns, so ceramic containers and hand-blown glassware will be popular.
“It’s a casual, haphazard formality, because it does have a form, but we use a lot of vines and citrus fruit and natural elements like jasmine vines and flowers like dahlias or sunflowers,” he says.
The San Francisco Symphony's gala, which was held September 14 at San Francisco City Hall, featured four concurrent dinners. The largest one was the colorful patron’s dinner, which was housed in a 12,000-square-foot tent erected next to Davies Symphony Hall. The Blueprint Studios-designed space was inspired by modern chinoiserie art and fashion.
The L.A. Street Art Design Experience—a design contest in which Cort Event Furnishings asked local event designers to create vignettes inspired by Los Angeles street art—took place in August at Los Angeles Center Studios. Perfect Surroundings Inc., which designed the main event, used a street art-inspired drip technique to paint wall art, liquor bottles, and a pineapple prop.
Rethink Breast Cancer hosted its 16th annual Boobyball benefit on October 13 at Rebel in Toronto. The fitness-inspired event, which paid homage to the ’80s and ‘90s, offered a number of on-theme photo ops, including a structure created with giant Rubik’s Cubes in the event’s pink, blue, yellow, and white color scheme.
