Saniyya Sidney attends the 2022 DPA Pre-Oscars Gift Suite at the Luxe Sunset Hotel (Photo courtesy DPA by Claire Painchaud)
It was two days of swanky celebration over Oscar weekend as DPA presented its annual Pre-Oscars Gift Suite at LA’s Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel.
The country of Kenya, home of Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o, was represented with a safari lounge within the suite featuring goods from some of its country’s top artists, jewelers and artisans.
Kenyan beach vacations and safaris were gifted to a lucky few of the invited guests including Viola Davis, “King Richard” breakout star Saniyya Sidney, “Summer of Soul” producer Beth Hubbard, and 2022 Oscar nominees Chris Corbould, Christopher Townsend and James Mather.
They were also offered on-site spa treatments and gifted Nescens Swiss skincare products during the event, which took over the garden and several private rooms at the hillside hotel.
Among the other global and local brands gifting celebrities and VIPs were Peaches Skincare, Annick Levesque handbags from Québec, Topochico, Carvery Kitchen, Luxie Beauty, Buttery Popcorn, My Bougie Bottle, Chipz Happen, Connect with Keao, Helen Ficarola, Sparti Scents, Hearthstone Collective, Mantra mask, Facial lounge, Manna Kadar Beauty , Fallen Stars, I love Julee, Debco Dogo, Frankie Dean, Pizza Girl, S1X Born Candle, Fazup, The Candy Pushers, Dr J’s , the Moon deck, Tough as a mother , Sacred Spaces, Femme Fatale beauty, Alkazone, H2rOse, Maine Island Soap, Stasher, Ubilam, Reachout Recovery, Asea, Dermaclara and Beach Sand.
DPA’s President and CEO Nathalie Dubois says she felt very impacted by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and decided to use the DPA platform to help. The Ukrainian Creative Coalition of Hollywood hosted a fundraiser within the DPA Pre-Oscars Gifting Suite to spread awareness about the war in Ukraine and to provide material support to its citizens. During the event, the UCCH also invited celebrities to record personal messages of solidarity to be shared directly with the people of Ukraine.
