If your dress wasn’t this white…
then you didn’t bother attending Le Dîner en Blanc ( fancy French for dinner in white). But we are just kidding, bien sûr there were attendees that wore off white and went all out; people from far, came to celebrate this fête of 30 years on Sunday, June 3 en beige, off blanc and certainly blanc!
It all began in the 80s, 1988 to be precise when founder and organiser , Francois Pasquier, decided to host a picnic in Paris’ vast Bois de Boulogne following his return to Paris following many years of travel. To celebrate and catch up with his amis; he was inspired to hold a dinner party. And to make it facile to find each other, everyone agreed to dine completely in blanc. It was such a success that they decided to repeat it the following year, and the next… and eventually, the guest list exceeded more than one thousand.
Now fast forward to 2018, on the anniversary, 30 years later, a record turnout – 17,000 people; 6,000 from the international community, celebrated, en vogue .
p.s: check us at 01:06-01:10 in the video below in our very stylish Oui, Oui, sunglasses!
From New York to Singapore, Dîner en Blanc is now a global celebration and you too can be a part of this chic fete that brings together foodies and fashionistas that’s full of in a city near you!event that pays homage to beauty, conviviality, friendship, and taste.
To attend diner en blanc …
1. you must know someone that knows someone that knows quelqu‘un…
2.you must agree to carry your own picnic, tables, chaises, tablecloth, literally bring your entire house…
3. did I mention having muscles to carry it to an undisclosed location until the last moment…
4. navigate [food, tables, chaises, tablecloth, literally bring your entire house] thru RER, then metro, luckily on a day when there wasn’t a strike…
5. find your group leader and proceed to set your table as elegantly as you can…
6. change into comfortable shoes so you can dance the night away with a backdrop of La Tour Eiffel just a stone throw away…
7. make new friends and have fun because la vie est belle…
8. pack up and leave in time before the metro closes.
Although we would like to relive this year’s dîner, we can only count down the days til next year’s and do it all over again… here’s a list of a DEB in a ville near you.
New York City’s Dîner en Blanc will be held on September 17, 2018 and tickets are currently sold out!
via DEB NYC
