Special Events

GUEST ROOM: THE FASHION PASSION OF FERN MALLIS

By Lisa Hurley

Ever since being voted best dressed in her senior class at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fern Mallis has been all about fashion. Now senior...

GUEST ROOM: NELSON FREITAS OF JACK MORTON CO.

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

NELSON Freitas has plenty of experience in the business of branding. During his time as senior partner and worldwide group planning director at New York-based...

THE LAST WORD: TONY RICHARDS

By Natasha Garber

“I didn’t know it then, but I was studying to become an event producer,” says Tony Richards of his film and television days. Those days were back in the 1990s, when a Los Angeles-based Richards worked in production, first for 20th Century Fox and then Disney, handling everything from set construction to audience issues. ...

CONFETTI: BILTMORE PLANNERS ARE FAST MOVERS

Alexandra Gudmundsson

GUESTS often enjoy apparently effortless events, but a peek behind the scenes can reveal last-minute adjustments by some fast-thinking event professionals....

MUTUAL FUND FIRMS FINED FOR LAVISH PARTIES

Three mutual fund companies have been slapped with fines totaling $700,000 by the National Association of Securities Dealers for improperly treating brokers to fancy parties and pricey meals, the agency announced Monday. ...

CONFETTI: VOK DAMS HELPS LANCOME MAKE IT ALL UP

Alexandra Gudmundsson

FOR Lancome's Color Designs Awards in May where the first Makeup Artist of the Year award was presented the cosmetics group hired Wuppertal, Germany-based...

INCENTIVE SPENDING TO RISE IN '07

Some 44 percent of executives responsible for their company's incentive spend say they will have bigger budgets to work with this year than last, while 30 percent say their spend will about the same. ...

THE LAST WORD: ROBERT SIVEK'S SENSE OF DIRECTION

BY NATASHA GARBER

WHILE 80 percent of Robert Sivek's event business these days is corporate work, the producer got his start in social. I was a social worker, and fundraisers...

CONFETTI: CIRC CREATES A DISCOMFORT ZONE

Alexandra Gudmundsson

THERE were no shuttles, no relaxed breakfasts and definitely no frills when Wiesbaden, Germany-based Circ Corporate Experience GmbH & Co. sent 1,000 of...

GUEST ROOM: CLAIRE STROOPE AND JACK EICHHORN ON RESPONSIBLE SPENDING

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

CLAIRE Jolley Stroope, CMP, started as a meeting and event planner, worked in catering and, finally, began a business consulting event companies and corporations...