Guests arrived with feathers, flowers and fruit atop their heads. After all, it was themed “A Night in Brazil”. It's true: when Peggy Jeffs is the chairperson of the organising committee, you know there will be a good theme, great party and spectacular headpieces. Couple that with Samba music, a millinery fashion show and the attendance of ambassador of Brazil Flavio Damico, and his wife Rosa Damico, the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Singapore (MDAS) Benefit gala brought the house down.  

For its 10th anniversary, the prestigious Ball in Monaco pulled out all the stops: Fireworks, a glow-in-dark dragon dance, a giant three-tiered cake that took five people to wheel out and an unforgettable charity auction where the most intense bidding was for the one-of-a-kind F.P Journe timepiece created only for the event that fetched $400,000. His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco graced this fundraising gala (as he always does), where proceeds go to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

When thespians get together, expect a fully-riotous party and concert extravaganza. And when Ivan Heng and Glen Goei are behind the entertainment, expect to be rolling off your Tiffany chair in laughter. The Rice Ball hosted “Out of this World” characters aplenty, with a mish-mash of superheros, alien life and monsters seated at each table in full costume and SFX makeup. The fundraising gala raised $1.275 million that evening, of which half a million going toward its new theatre which will open in September 2019.

In Met Gala style, Singapore’s prominent art lovers congregated at the National Gallery for this society ball and previewed the first exhibition on minimalism in Southeast Asia, Minimalism: Space. Light. Object featuring installations by Anish Kapoor and Tatsuo Miyajima. Later, an exhilarating live auction took place alongside the ball feast whipped up by chefs Julien Royer and Violet Oon.