Quelle Surprise
Purple Magazine Hosts Dinner at Kenmare, Nudity Ensues
On Sunday night, Purple magazine celebrated its 13th issue with a dinner, sponsored by the Villency Design Group, at the recently opened Kenmare, a new Nolita restaurant venture from Nur Khan and Paul Sevigny. Given that combination of French fashion-mag cool and downtown nightlife firepower, hipster overload was always imminent, and the crowd—Sevigny's sister, Chloë; Michael Stipe; Nate Lowman; Daphne Guinness—didn't disappoint on that score. Between the main course and appetizer, a young man, who wished to be unnamed, stripped down to just his tennis shoes and poured candle wax on his body. "What is shocking about this," said Purple's editor, Olivier Zahm, "is that this is not shocking." If you've ever seen an issue of Zahm's magazine, you would know that a naked body covered in wax is unlikely to cause him to raise an eyebrow.
After dinner, the Purple posse made its way 20 or so blocks uptown to Khan's other outpost, the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel. The draw was a (not so) secret show by Guns N' Roses, but the notoriously tardy Axl Rose wasn't in a hurry, and by the time he took the stage, after 1 a.m., the joint was crowded, to say the least. Maybe that's why Chrissie Miller, Jen Brill, and Ryan McGinley stayed on the Gramercy's roof with cocktails. By that point, there seemed to be little thought that some of this crew would need to be up for the Zac Posen show at 9 a.m. the next morning.
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