Just a month before the Christmas holidays, there is another celebration that has been bursting into our calendar for a few years now and has more and more followers. It is Thanksgiving Day, a perfect occasion to give thanks and celebrate life with our families and loved ones. This dinner is celebrated on the last Thursday of November, which was born in the United States with the idea of giving thanks for good harvests, and which today is the perfect excuse to get together with our favorite people and taste delicious dishes.
A tradition already adopted by many famous and influencers fashion, beauty and lifestyle that, with Rochas as host, they met two days before the official date at their Friendsgiving, to celebrate a spectacular meal among friends that was an adaptation of the well-known festival. The chosen place was the La Gaivota farm, in Aravaca, on the outskirts of Madrid, where Rochas invited more than sixty friends of the brand to an aperitif and lunch with a very autumnal country touch. And the menu, as established by protocol, is typical of this celebration with the turkey as protagonist.
© Javier AlonsoA year in which the majority of those attending the meal agreed that they have valued the essentials of their lives – family, love, friendship… – and the importance of always being grateful to become aware of what we have. . A philosophy that is also shared by the Rochas firm that with its most iconic fragrances Eau de Rochas and Eau de Rochas L’Essentiel It champions that lifestyle based on valuing what is truly substantial and important.
© Javier AlonsoTwo of the guests at the event: Teresa Baca, who is closing a spectacular year after becoming the mother of her first daughter, Teresita, last January, and the designer Inés Martín Alcalde, who recently opened her second eponymous boutique in Madrid.
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© Javier AlonsoThe businesswoman Fiona Ferrer, the designer Carmen de la Puerta, pregnant with her third daughter, and the communication advisor Andrea Pascual, also attended this lunch. Friendsgiving organized by Rochas.
© Javier AlonsoA great friend of the firm, content creator Melissa Villareal puts the finishing touch to a happy 2024. A year with a lot to be grateful for, among other things her marriage to businessman Eduardo Zouein last May.
© Javier AlonsoThe Venezuelan entrepreneur Camila Cisneros and the photographer and creative director Lucía Vidaurreta coincided at the event where they made evident the good relationship that unites them, in addition to their passion for fashion.
© Javier AlonsoJewelry designer Susi Rejano is an unconditional fan of the aroma of Eau de Rochas L’Essentiel. A fragrance with lemon top accords, a delicate floral heart and base notes of patchouli, amber and white musks. The bottle incorporates a metallic finish, simulating aquatic ripples that shine under the winter sun.
© Javier AlonsoAs a visual floral workshop, the artist Inés Urquijo designed some tables so that the guests at this celebration would be inspired and get decoration ideas to be able to replicate in their homes for the upcoming Christmas holidays.
© Javier AlonsoThe spectacular and Instagrammable decoration of the event with flowers, leaves, ocher colors and seasonal fruits was carried out by Susana Freire, an expert in devising unique spaces, who perfectly captured the firm’s proposal of creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere for this event. meeting. In the words of the decorator, “I wanted to recreate a very relaxed atmosphere, of a meal in the countryside among friends with the tones of the season as protagonists.” Two imperial tables presided over the winter terrace of the estate where the guests shared confidences about the year they are about to close.