Diner en Blanc New York 2013
by Lilliana Mendez
Title
Diner en Blanc New York 2013
Artist
Lilliana Mendez
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Diner en Blanc New York was Held at, Bryant Park, New York City on September 18th 2013.
Diner en Blanc is the world's largest secret dinner party...everyone dresses in white and arrives at a previously undisclosed location only known by the event's organizers. Diner En Blanc began in Paris 25 years ago and the concept has spread across the world.
One Paris event was at two locations - the Louvre and the Trocadero, where over 10,000 people showed up clad in white to dine together as part of a "flash mob" type experience...
Here is the how the Diner en Blanc web site describes the event:
"At the last minute, the location is given to thousands of friends and acquaintances who have been patiently waiting to learn the 'Diner en Blanc's' secret place. Thousands of people, dressed all in white, and conducting themselves with the greatest decorum, elegance, and etiquette, all meet for a mass 'chic picnic' in a public space. Over the course of an evening, the diners enhance the function and value of their city's public space by participating in the unexpected. Beyond the spectacle and refined elegance of the dinner itself, guests are brought together from diverse backgrounds by a love of beauty and good taste. Le Diner en Blanc recalls the elegance and glamour of court society, and diners engage one another knowing they are taking part in a truly magical event. There are no disruptions: no car traffic, no pedestrian traffic, except for the occasional amazed and astonished looks from passersby at the scene unfolding before them. And we, as they, wonder whether it's all not a dream."
Excerpt Gathered from http://www.youmaybewandering.com/2013/06/diner-en-blanc.html
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Comments (56)
Michele Thulborn-Chapman
Interesting.... I hadn't heard of this event before so thank you for sharing it. Really strange to see everyone in white and all in one place together.
Ginger Repke
This is great! I would have been one walking by gawking at what I didn't understand. Now I'm sure to see one!
Rosette Doyle
What a lovely picture and even lovelier concept. I have never heard of this before. Thanks for the education!