Jingle Belles
Models and Assorted Other Pretty Types Gather at a Trio of Fashionable Holiday Parties
Adding a store opening to the party schedule this time of year is like putting a fat man down a chimney—it's a bit of a squeeze. But that didn't stop AllSaints from christening its new shop in the Meatpacking District last night. The rapidly expanding U.K. brand got some help from Tanteo tequila and Florence and the Machine's scarlet-maned front woman, Florence Welch, who closed the bash with a very danceable DJ set. Formerly the home of an art foundation, the 8,000-square-foot space is now outfitted with Turkish looms and shelves upon shelves of Singer sewing machines—and, this night at least, catwalkers like Alek Wek and Coco Young. What's on Maryna Linchuk's holiday wish list? "Just my boyfriend and my family happy—and some diamonds. I got a new piercing in my ear, so I need some," she said, adding that she'll be leaving the catwalk herd to spend New Year's in Brazil with her beau. "Kate Moss, everybody else is going to Tulum," she noted. "It's model central."
A few blocks downtown, Opening Ceremony was throwing a late-night holiday party that was more naughty than nice at Westway, the (slightly) revamped strip club from the team behind the Jane Ballroom. Spike Jonze, Claire Danes, and Hugh Dancy braved the crowds to ogle some flesh, and Chiara Clemente noted with approval that the performers were working the stripper poles: "If they can do great acrobatics, it's worth it," she declared. "If they're just shaking their ass, it's not."
The skin-baring continued at Chandelier Creative's Christmas extravaganza. "How genius is it to have Amanda Lepore as Santa," Todd Selby mused before getting in line for his own shot with the nightlife doyenne. St. Nick was gussied up in a cleavage-flaunting, skimpy red sequin number, but she wasn't the only one underdressed for the chilly weather. Ten dollars bought curious voyeurs a ticket to a naked peep show, featuring none other than Chandelier's own interns. Redemption-seekers could find solace in the fact that all the proceeds went to support the New Museum.
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