New York's hotel restaurants are getting better.
New York's hotel restaurants are getting better.
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GUEST LECTURE:
Our next Guest Lecture interview will be with New York-based stylist and fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. Paid Feed Me readers can ask her anything about what role social media plays in her styling work, what it’s like to build in the hyper-creative world of fashion, and what she’s been up to since leaving Vogue last year.
Karefa-Johnson’s approach is largely narrative and focused on diversifying representation in the high fashion landscape. She previously served as Fashion Director of GARAGE Magazine, where applied a fresh perspective to the bi-annual print publication’s fashion coverage by working with a roster of young talents including Ethan James Green, Nadine Ijewere and Campbell Addy.
She went on to work at Vogue as Global Contributing Fashion Editor and styled 13 international covers of Vogue, featuring Serena Williams, Margot Robbie, Kamala Harris, Amanda Gorman and Bella Hadid.
In addition to her editorial work, Karefa-Johnson collaborates with like-minded commercial clients including Nike, Etro, Miu Miu, Calvin Klein, Guest in Residence, Nanushka, Armani, and as of this morning, Warby Parker.
Hotel restaurants are getting better.
The Standard’s new Soho hotel, The Manner, has been getting great press. New York Magazine praised their restaurant called The Otter, which surprised me (“the Otter is very much not a ‘hotel restaurant’”). FT broke down the sophisticated rooms (no kids under 16 are allowed, TV’s are only available upon request). There’s also no check-in, no credit cards, and no bill – you’re supposed to feel like you’re at your elaborate friend’s house.
The Manner’s downtown location (plus their rooftop bar) will be a big part of the hotel’s success — especially if they can get Google Maps to remove the former location SIXTY SoHo from their address. The Standard team acquired the SoHo address, which used to house the Sixty SoHo, two years ago. According to WWD, as soon as the paperwork was signed, Amar Lalvani, the executive chairman of Standard International, started to think: “What could that whole place be? What should that place be? What speaks to us about it? What does SoHo need? What do we need? What does the world need in some ways?” Deep.
If you take the subway a few stop uptown, you’ll find a hotel called The Evelyn (where rooms are around $200/night) on 27th St. That’s where the team behind Wildair opened two new restaurants — Brass and Tusk Bar. I went to Tusk Bar for dinner when it opened, and went to Brass’s opening party last week and I have to say, even though The Evelyn Hotel seems to have appeared out of the ether, the food and drinks and space are very special. The neighborhood feels random until you realize Café Carmellini (also a hotel restaurant in The Fifth Avenue Hotel) is two blocks away, Borgo (which opens on Friday) is on the same street, and the city’s newest member’s club The Twenty Two isn’t too far either. The best part to me is that I have a reliable, special place to get a last minute drinks with friends before holiday season trains to my parents’ house. Always looking for more Penn Station-vicinity suggestions.
