At this private dinner party, clothing is not allowed

NEWS WAVE INDIA: The Füde Dinner Experience is hosted by the artist and model Charlie Ann Max. For $88, and after Max has approved the applications, guests come together to enjoy, according to the website: “a liberating space that celebrates our most pure selves, through plant-based cooking, art, bareness & self-love.” Put another way: It’s a bare vegan dinner party with a bunch of strangers.

Max started experimenting with bare events in 2020. The dinners were initially invite-only, but she opened them up to people who had heard about them through Instagram or word of mouth. Every dinner she hosted sold out, she said, and she was soon inundated with inquiries from aspiring bare diners from around the world. The draw of the bare dinner party is different for different people, she said. Some want to feel more connected to their own bodies, while others want to make new, similarly uninhibited friends. She makes her events look like Renaissance paintings because, Max said, “it feels very romantic.”

Each Füde Experience dinner has a theme. For this last dinner in New York, it was “Embracing Your Inner Rhythms: for Individuals to Connect with their Menstrual Cycles.” After an hour of mindful movement and breath work, the women squeezed around a dining table covered in silk, dried flowers and butt-shaped water glasses, and discussed their periods.