The Week in Events: Bonnaroo's Creative Sponsors, Stella McCartney's Electricity-Free Event, C.M.P. Conclave's Trend Tips

Stella McCartney chose the New York Marble Cemetery as the site of her resort 2013 presentation on Monday night. The private garden had no source of electricity and the producers opted not to bring in generators, preferring to set up an environment with games, food, and live entertainment that didn’t require voltage.

When it's a concert for a band called Fun, you might expect the decor to be, well, fun. To that end, AOL and T-Mobile’s summer-kickoff concert at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on June 4 got a whimsical, neon look from event producer and designer Jes Gordon Proper Fun, including streamers, a life-size Lite-Brite decor piece, and glowing logoed spheres overhead.

Vintage swimwear and a classic car set the tone at the '50s Beach Bash Sunday at the at the Ritz-Carlton, Key Biscayne, in Miami. The hotel's event celebrated the decade’s fashion, rock and roll music, and culture.

The BizBash L.A. IdeaFest took to the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday. Among the new products displayed on the buzzing show floor: Empire Event Rentals is offering its new “Louie” chair, with 500 available for rental in Los Angeles. Available as of the last three months, the white cushioned chair can be used in combination with its colorful sequin equivalents as accent pieces for a look that pops.

To promote the Thursday premiere of the second season of legal drama Suits, USA Network crafted an extensive campaign that included a pop-up shop, a fashion show on the High Line in New York, and male models dressed in suits riding around the city on matching white bicycles.

Social group Dandies & Quaintrelles and Holly Bass Performance Projects presented the Seersucker Ride and Social Saturday in Washington, D.C. Participants, dressed in seersucker and Jazz Age fashions, began with a retro bicycle ride that began at a secret location—revealed the day before the event—and continued to Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens for a lawn party with food, beverages, games, and music.

More than 80,000 people traveled to a remote 700-acre farm in Tennessee June 7-10 for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Knowing the attendees would be outside day and night listening music on multiple stages, brands such as Garnier Fructis provided practical services such as free hair-washing and styling in a 40- by 40-foot air-conditioned tent.

Interactive experiences, such as make-your-own-s’mores, are a trend for meetings and events. That was the message from event producer Petra Compel and design director Andrew Zill, both from Baltimore-based production and marketing firm Feats Inc., during their session at the Convention Industry Council’s Certified Meeting Planner Conclave, June 9-11 in Tampa. Compel and Zill shared tips on trends in food, beverage, and decor with the more than 300 attendees.

Chicago's Columbia College hosted its spring fashion show June 8 at the institution's media production center. To celebrate a new partnership with Johnson Publishing—the company's C.E.O. Desiree Rogers was event chairwoman—models wore vintage pieces culled from the Ebony Fashion Fair archives. Set to be resurrected next year, the traveling fashion fair is put on by the publishing company and highlights emerging, African-American designers and models.

On Sunday night, some 1,700 guests descended on New York’s Plaza hotel, the site of the Tony Awards official gala. Like last year, the late-night event took over several of the storied hotel’s spaces, including the new Food Hall, where in-house purveyors like Luke’s Lobster provided a smorgasbord of eats.