St. Patrick\u2019s day is just around the corner\u2014and with that, it was as good a time as any to celebrate JW Anderson\u2019s latest partnership with Guinness. As Jonathan Anderson, creative director and founder of the label, told Vogue: \u201cThis collaboration felt like an opportunity to take the heritage of Guinness and re-contextualize it through a craft-led lens that defines JW Anderson today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The brands came together for a bash on Monday night at NoLita\u2019s The Mulberry; a bar hand-selected for having one of the best pours in the city, especially with Ryan Wagner, Guinness\u2019s national ambassador and head of beer quality, manning the tap. \u201cA Guinness is the easiest thing to order, no matter what kind of vibe you want,\u201d he noted. \u201cA pint always fits into your night, whether it\u2019s a fancy evening or something more laid back.\u201d<\/p>\n
This particular evening had a more elevated feel to it with artists, editors, photographers, musicians, and stylists packing into the basement-level cocktail bar. Attendees walked around with customized JW Anderson x Guinness glasses in hand, grabbing pints of stout from the bar and immediately doing their best to split the G\u2014be it with regular versions of \u201cthe black stuff\u201d or the zero-proof options. Others opted for Guinness Espresso Martinis or Black Velvet cocktails, all crafted by bartenders sporting harp pins on their burgundy blazers. While drinks flowed from the bar, Irish-inspired bites circled the room; mini meat pies, Irish smoked salmon on toast, and cheddar cheese and onion tarts all going down a treat.<\/p>\n
Many in attendance were sporting garments from the 17-piece capsule collection, which showcases decades worth of iconography. \u201cI\u2019ve always been fascinated by the graphic language of Guinness\u2014it\u2019s so immediate, so culturally loaded, yet incredibly refined,\u201d Anderson said. The crowd showed off its range, styling oversized logo-emblazoned knits with denim and jersey-style tees with trousers. \u201cIt\u2019s the perfect collaboration,\u201d stylist Harry Lambert told Vogue. \u201cIt has that joyful, celebratory feel to it that\u2019s inherently Irish. And of course, there\u2019s nothing better than JW Anderson knitwear.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the evening continued, guests made their way back and forth from the dance floor to the bar\u2014making it feel more like a night out with friends at a local pub than an industry affair. The volume got louder, the temperature hotter, and the lights dimmed immensely. \u201cIt’s a great party, and that\u2019s not always a given anymore,\u201d fashion illustrator Angelica Hicks laughed. \u201cI bumped into and met really cool people.\u201d<\/p>\n
As last call at the bar approached, folks rounded out the occasion with a cheeky cigarette or two underneath the window display at Cafe Mulberry\u2014taking a minute to admire the three wooly jumpers from the collection displayed on the mannequins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Patrick\u2019s day is just around the corner\u2014and with that, it was as good a time as any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,2901],"class_list":["post-159939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vogue-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}