Only in New York, Kids: The Town & Country x PAPER Party
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 hand- shake, 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 every- body 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.
PAPER too knows how to mix it up. In its 20th anniversary issue, future T&C cover stars Chloë Sevigny and John Waters vamped for the camera.
Here, from left: Nightlife fixture Markus Kelle; gallerist Cristina Grajales, whose “Woven Together” exhibit opens Oct. 29; social media creator Clara Perlmutter (aka @TinyJewishGirl); Guy Trebay; performer Aquaria; T&C and PAPER contributing writer Lynn Yaeger; stylist Beverly Nguyen, founder of Beverly’s New York City; T&C and PAPERcontributing writer Michael Musto; model and illustrator Connie Fleming; T&C and PAPER contributing artist Ruben Toledo, who collaborated with SCAD on “Isabel Toledo, A Love Letter,” open now through Dec. 16; gallerist Angela Westwater, whose Peter Schlesinger exhibit opens Sept. 6; and artist Justin Vivian Bond, who is performing at Joe’s Pub from Sept. 10-14.
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.
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.
A Letter From the Editor of Town & Country
When I was in college in Poughkeepsie, desperate for any drop of Manhattan I could find, I would go to the bookstore and buy three magazines: W (back when it was a broadsheet),T&C and PAPER. In those pages I found my New York. Three decades later, in my office at Hearst Tower, I got an email from our friend Mickey Boardman, PAPER‘s director of special projects. “Stellene,” he wrote, “our editor-in-chief Justin Moran has an idea for a collaboration.”
“This,” I said to Erik Maza, T&C’s executive style director, “could be interesting.” And after months of Zooms, and then quiet, and then feverish casting sessions, and a stroke of genius by photographer Hunter Abrams, and the village formed by our incredible teams, we have here the dinner party of our New York dreams.
“The idea from the get-go was a dinner party,” says Maza, the editor and writer of the story, “something that’s in our iconography. Recall the Rolling Stones and the debutante on the June 1966 cover? And PAPER‘s 20th-anniversary cover, shot at Indochine, which starred two future T&C cover stars? We both like to mix the bourgeois and the rebel. This shoot captures New York now: downtown, uptown, old school, new school, analog, digital, the past and the future.
When Susan Gutfreund walked in, no one was more excited to meet her than Matthew Mazur (AKA Mazurbate). Feeding her dog, Lucky, cheese cubes during a fashion shoot is a vibe all generations can get behind.” That’s our kind of town. And country. Happy fall, my favorite season in the city.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country Editor-in-chief
Photography: Hunter Abrams
Styling: Town & Country Fashion Department
Hair: Walton Nunez at See Management
Makeup: J. Patrick at See Management
Set design: Anthony Asaro
Prop styling: Lauren Alexander
Production: Viewfinders
Location: Pier 59 Studios
Town & Country Editor-in-chief: Stellene Volandes
Town & Country Executive style director: Erik Maza
PAPER Editor-in-chief: Justin Moran
PAPER Special projects director: Mickey Boardman
Town & Country Visual director: Darrick Harris
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…