Once cleared, guests walked through the shell of the museum – elegant but tired, with the parquet under wraps and the tall windows shuttered – and along the gravel paths to the end of the long formal gardens, where a giant white box was marked, simply, "Dior".
"The stories the quilts are telling are clear," Mr. Guest said.
From the opening moments of "Dubuque," as cocktails are refilled in the home of a bourgeois couple, it's clear that guest getting remains on the roster of entertainments.
By the 1949 50 season, Ed Sullivan, host of the very popular Toast of the Town, was using Counterattack to determine whether he would clear a guest for an appearance on his show.
Tickets to the gala are typically $30,000 each, and according to the New York Times, Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour has "final say over every invitation and attendee, which means that even if a company buys a table, it cannot choose everyone who sits at its table: It must clear the guest with her and Vogue".
How do I make it clear to guests that this is not a "green card" wedding?
Keep numbers down by making it clear that guests' brothers and sisters aren't invited.
Back in New York, Starwood had to clear out guests, upgrading them to rooms in the New York Sheraton.
Orbital Technologies have made it clear that guests will be restricted to consuming iced tea and fruit juices for their liquid intake.
And it was clear to guests the moment they walked into the show, held in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre, that it was intended as a statement that it was Mr. Jacobs's last.
