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Chic Chanel Party Planning Ideas for your Favorite Fashionista

March 13, 2018
Birthdays , Celebrating , Tablescapes

When Juliet asked for a “fancy dress-up party” with just her closest girlfriends, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to host her party at Glitter and Glam, (a beautiful kids’ spa with runway) and to incorporate the CC no.5 idea I had been secretly already been planning for her 5th birthday! Yes, a Chanel party for kids! But without titling her birthday, a Chanel party, I incorporated all of the brand’s iconic elements, (all fashionable signatures that I adore) into the party’s design and produced a Cute and Classy CC no.5! Read on to see how and collect your own party planning ideas for a super chic Chanel-inspired party that YOUR favorite fashionista will love!

Pick your color theme. Juliet’s favorite color is pink and given the venue was primarily white and pink and had gold chairs, chargers and candelabras, I knew to compliment the signature black and white Chanel combo with shots of pink and gold. Let your venue’s natural surrounding and offerings help determine your party’s colors and/or choose the venue with your color theme already in mind and save money. Work with the venue’s set colors not against it.
Incorporate the logo. These kids now all think that CC stands for Cute and Classy lol! And that’s exactly what they were. Cute and oh so classy. For her 5th birthday, we played off the famous perfume, titling the event CC no.5. Thank you, Supermimi for all the super custom printables! They elevated the party giving it a professional, custom look! (Don’t you love her shop’s name? It’s like a superhero is coming to your party’s rescue lol) I highly recommend her super powers. She has a stylish eye, quick response time and uncanny ability to customize anything from chocolate wrappers to straw flags and banners!
Find and Feature coordinating fabrics. It’s all about the fashion after all. So go beyond plastic table covers. Think quilting, black and white stripes, or in our case, flowery 3-D pink fabric that elevated this kids’ party tablescape or nubby black and white tweed for the selfie station backdrop!
Get guests to dress upEncourage guests to dress in theme and I promise, your pictures will really pop! If you have stylish friends like I do, it’ll be welcomed as a fun challenge. I love my friends. They’re always up for a fun fashion theme!It serves as a natural ice breaker too to see and discuss how people chose to style themselves.
Produce a fashion show and provide props. I provided Chanel-inspired kids’ outfits and accessories for the little girls to borrow. Props could include everything from berets and pearls to sunglasses, gloves, poodles and Coco-like outfits. See prior post on the 5 things to look for when hunting down Chanel-inspired fashions!
Get glam and pampered. Even littles enjoy luxe spa treatments! Manis, pedis and a selection between makeup application and a facial was enjoyed by all! Read on here for more on Glitter and Glam’s spa offerings and services. They are so sweet to kids and made getting beautified truly a Cute and Classy experience!
Parisian foods. For our brunch we had French croissants and quiches offered alongside beloved breakfast and lunch offerings like salad, mac n. cheese, bagels, fruit kebobs and oatmeal. Your menu could also consist of a crepe station, baguette and cheese station, and a macaron tower. Is it cold out? How about some hot COCO?
Decorate with fashionista flair. I copied pages out of my Chanel book and decorated our selfie station with gorgeous Chanel-inspired illustrations (as already shown above). I also added Coco Chanel’s famous quotes around the walls of our dining room and by our rolling rack to continue the theme. “Everyday is a fashion show and the world is your runway.” – Coco Chanel <door sign below>Even the hats were custom-made to match the decor with a giant crepe camellia. Thanks to Roniesia from Lifestyle and Events for hand-making all of these for us and for helping to install, setup and breakdown this party with me!SupermimiDesign helped make every detail look so posh with the printables! Other fashionable details included pearl napkin holders that doubled as favors and quilted chain purses that doubled as favors and chair decor.And what about these amazing Chanel stickers that I nabbed at the Chanel NY pop -up experience? I placed them on trays and on all the kids’ glasses!
Offer fashion-forward desserts. CC or Chanel glitter lollipops anyone?
Sweet Caroline Confections provided the most glamorous glittery lollipops we had ever seen. They were a huge hit with the kids AND moms! And they tasted sooo good. Contact her! She’ll make any custom design look perfectly beautiful.To match the invite, party theme and colors, I also worked with A Dose Of Pink on Chanel and beauty themed cupcake toppers. Surprisingly, these delicate creations shipped without any breakage and looked incredibly artistic in person. Notice the quilted CC detail?They’re toppers so you add them with a little frosting (glue) to whatever cupcakes you want. Juliet and I had so much fun baking them the night before her party and then felt like professionals presenting them with these amazing toppers. Prettiest cupcakes ever!And then there was the cake. What sort of birthday would it be without cake? It’s the star of the table and as elegantly made as this was, it surely did shine! Knowing that Juliet did not want any black on her cake, I opted for a black and white cake stand (a Sephora box turned upside down). And I asked Jolirose Bake Shop to create a quilted white cake with gold pearl accents and a gold sequin bottom. It turned out more fabulous than we could have imagined!Is this not the prettiest cake? Inside was white cake with baby pink frosting to match the decor. Thank you to all the vendors who participated in exchange for promotion. The party would not have been the same without you!

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Fab Fete: Contemporary Carnival

September 30, 2011
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With so many elements to my Contemporary Carnival event, I had to split up the event elements into two posts. As a continuation to my Carnival Candy Bar post, I’m going to go straight into all the other fun, fashionable details! Making sure we had fun activities throughout the store was one of my concerns. So though the men’s department featured the carnival candy bar, I still had the women’s fashions, shoes, handbags, cosmetics and jewelry departments to worry about on the first floor. So first I confirmed fashionable gifts with purchase and raffles throughout the store. Next I had our associates dress in carnival theme. I even initiated a storewide contest for best carnival themed fashion which turned out to be a fun morale booster. Check out these pictures and see how they got into it!

Throughout the store, we promoted “Magic Makeovers” and highlighted the super transformative powers of our makeup artists, personal shoppers and stylists. Trust me, I’ve seen their work and they really can work magic!

By women’s fashions (women’s contemporary) and jewelry, I placed a directional sign, again using one of our disassembled coat hangers and simply posting our customized signs from Party NV who helped create all the graphic elements for the event.

I placed it behind our fashion fortune telling area to help draw attention to the fun, free and fabulous service. Given our fashion fortune teller was going to be sitting while doing her readings, I knew I could get away with placing the sign behind her while still ensuring readability.

Our fashion fortune teller for the day was stylist, Cathy Berger from Fashion Societe.

She was able to read people’s shopping needs and recommend what she saw in their fashion future. I gave her the hat and lace black opera length gloves to wear, both helped to complete her carnival look. And her crystal ball is simply a crackled fishbowl vase turned upside down on our Michael’s riser and bling plate.

The table was dressed in striped linens that I purchased used and super cheap from Cloth Connection on sale. I again stapled the pom pom trim that I purchased from Cathie Filian for a more customized and coordinated look. Yes, I said stapled… I’ve customized event tables before with linens and trim and have painstakingly pinned every inch of the trim in the past. And after getting severe back cramps and knowing how much sweat and toil that takes, I opted for the quick and easy 3minute version. And it worked!
Notice all the carnival graphic details of the tents, candy red and white stripes and vintage font elements. I had the mini chocolates worded “shop til you drop” and used our leftover hang tags as a table topper, decorating the perimeter of the fashion fortune telling table. What do you think?

A carnival needs fun games so I created a fashionable take on the traditional “Pin the Tail on the Donkey Game”. There are no donkeys at Saks, nor should there be so I converted the title into “Pin the Purse on the Fashionista” and held it within the handbag department – makes sense, no? Given I didn’t have the budget or staff to hire someone to man the game, I had our partner gym, Equinox man the table and use it to draw attention to their giveaway gym passes. Shoppers would stop by, be tied with a scarf, be spun around then pin their purse of choice on the fashionista in front of them. If they got it right, they would win a bigger Equinox pass. For playing, everyone won a little something from Equinox and everyone was treated to some candied carnival peanuts too! Here I am demonstrating to the Equinox guy, how I want the game to run.

The blindfolded gal is our fabulous intern who painstakingly helped tape all the mini chocolate covers and create those branded gift wrap popcorn holders in the previous post. Thanks, Kaitlyn!

The Equinox guy was a super sport and agreed to wear the bowtie that I handed him.

Another game that we played was Fashion Pictionary. Think Pictionary but with fashion terms like “perm”,” lingerie” and “stilettos.”

I had the intern write on the blank cards that Jodie from Party NV created for us. I love Party NV! They create custom party designs, decorations, favors and more!

Contestants won carnival themed goody bags for their participation.

Across the way in shoes were the clown shoe cupcakes. I bought the clown shoe cupcake holders off of OrientalTrading.com – they were the perfect match to our blue/red/white/black color theme. And I asked our local baker to create red velvet cupcakes. Colors must match, ladies!

For more on Party NV and other carnival themed parties, check this link and you’ll see where the original event graphics came from!