The T&C x Paper Party, Where Park Avenue Met Papi Juice
Photographs by Hunter Abrams, Erik Maza
The Perfect Uptown-Meets-Downtown Dinner PartyHunter Abrams
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Uptown. Downtown. In the popular imagination they’re not just different zip codes, they’re separate planets, with their own orbits, languages, even magazines. For 178 years T&C has epitomized uptown, and for the past 40 of those, Paper has embodied downtown. Always they have rotated around the same axis: New York City.
So we convened a dream dinner party, inviting Paper people and card-carrying members of Club T&C, a first-of-its-kind collab between two media institutions that have more in common than meets the eye. We have Paper OGs turned T&C contributors and T&C fixtures cosplaying Paper. Are they Paper-curious but T&C-forward? Maybe more like Paper-istas by day and Town & Country–ites by night.
Probably both. It’s all in a change of wardrobe, a secret wink and handshake, and the international language of “invincible glamour,” as Guy Trebay puts it in his new memoir, Do Something, which chronicles an earlier version of the city in which the only currency that mattered was being yourself “in a world that, as someone once said, day and night does its best to make you into everybody else.” Perhaps that city is not so bygone. Perhaps it’s right here, right now.
In 1966 a debutante mingled on T&C’s cover with the Rolling Stones. Today we introduced Park Avenue to Papi Juice, the ’90s Club Kid Jennytalia, and the DJ Mazurbate.From left: DJ and Papi Juice co-founder Oscar Nñ; Nicky Hilton; DJ and Papi Juice co-founder Adam Rhodes; Susan Gutfreund; Jenny Dembrow, executive director, the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York; illustrator and Papi Juice art director Mohammed Fayaz; and DJ and stylist Matthew Mazur. Papi Juice Vol. 93 is Aug. 23. On Oscar Nñ: Gucci coat, top, pants, belt, and loafers; David Yurman necklace. On Hilton: Oscar de la Renta dress; Le Vian earrings. On Rhodes: Gucci suit, gloves, and loafers; Tiffany & Co. Pharrell Williams necklace; Oscar Heyman brooch. On Gutfreund: Margot McKinney earrings and necklace. On Dembrow: Carolina Herrera top and shorts; Jimmy Choo pumps. On Fayaz: Gucci suit and neck bow. On Mazur: Givenchy top; Ralph Lauren Purple Label pants; Pomellato necklace; Reza brooch; Dunhill loafers. On the table: Dior Maison throughout.Hunter Abrams
The modern master of group portraiture was Richard Avedon, whose photomurals informed our own.Here, from left: Sarah Hoover, whose book, The Motherload, is out in January; photographer Quil Lemons, whose work is on view at Jenkins Johnson Gallery through Aug. 23; author Candace Bushnell; designer Narciso Rodriguez; performer Jack Powers; artist Anna Weyant; stylist Ian Bradley; T&C contributing editor Alejandra Cicognani; curator Brooke Wise; T&C contributor and author Carole Radziwill; (seated) Dustin Pittman, whose new book of photographs, New York After Dark, is out Sept. 3; and photographer Emilio Madrid. On Hoover: Chanel jacket, top, skirt, and necklace; Gigi Burris Millinery bow. On Lemons: Hermès waistcoat; Willy Chavarria jeans; Gucci loafers; Sylva & Cie. pendant; Tiffany & Co. Pharrell Williams bracelet. On Bushnell: David Koma dress; De Beers necklace. On Powers: Moschino jacket and pants; Michael Kors Collection coat; Versace boots; Pomellato necklace. On Weyant: Akris dress; Dolce & Gabbana sandals; Boucheron bracelet. On Bradley: Ralph Lauren Purple Label shirt; Loewe pants; Tiffany & Co. Pharrell Williams bracelet; Howl ring. On Cicognani: Emporio Armani jacket. On Wise: Ralph Lauren Collection gown; David Yurman High Jewelry earrings; Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet. On Radziwill: Sabyasachi dress, earring, and necklace. On Pittman: Fendi Men’s jacket. On Madrid: Giorgio Armani jacket, vest, turtleneck, and pants; Belperron brooch; Cartier watch; David Yurmanring; Christian Louboutin shoes.Hunter Abrams
Pizza’s here! Anybody care for a slice? It is a dinner party, after all.From left: Social media creator Jeauni Cassanova; Lizzie Tisch, chief curator LTD X NYC; nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, whose coffee table book Bartschland is out now; chef DeVonn Francis, founding director at Yardyworld; writer and #NEVERWORNS creator Liana Satenstein (on floor); photographer Mason Rudnick; Paper director of special projects Mickey Boardman; and performer Beaujangless. On Cassanova: Christopher John Rogers dress; Van Cleef & Arpels necklace and earrings. On Francis: Gabriela Hearst coat and pants; Sabyasachi necklace; Jimmy Choo shoes. On Satenstein: Tory Burch skirt; Nikos Koulis earrings; David Yurman High Jewelry cuff; Sylva & Cie. ring. On Rudnick: Verdura bracelet. On Beaujangless: Stella McCartney dress; Margot McKinney necklace; Roger Vivier heels.Hunter Abrams
Photographs by Hunter Abrams. Styled by Dania Ortiz, Jaclyn Bloomfield, and Hannah Morrolf. Executive Style Director Erik Maza.
Hair by Walton Nunez at See Management. Makeup by J. Patrick at See Management. Set design by Anthony Asaro. Prop styling by Lauren Alexander. Production by Viewfindersnyla. Shot at Pier 59 Studios.
A special digital cover of T&C’s September 2024 issue, in newsstands now.Hunter Abrams
This story appears in the September 2024 issue of Town & Country, with the headline "The Surprise Guests."SUBSCRIBE NOW
