Excuse me waiter, there’s a pastie in the pasta!
During a striptease at designer Bach Mai’s dinner-cum-runway-show at Maison Close, a piece of performer Karina Revlon’s teensy, bejeweled bra went flying into stylist Nolan Meader’s plate of veal.
“A piece of lingerie got lobbed right into a plate,” said a spy, who reported a light flurry of showgirl wings “little tufts of feathers” were wafting around. “It truly was interactive.”
The discarded piece of her corset top landed half on his plate and half in Meader’s lap, we hear, and was placed back on the ledge so that Revlon could easily retrieve her wears.
“[The show] was fabulous,” an unfazed Meader, who dresses socialites, said. “To have beautiful clothes and an element of surprise was a fabulous combo.”
“I’m straight now,” Jack James of hot DJ duo the Muses joked of the performance.
Designer Mai noted, “That was up-close and personal.”
Mai, who has dressed celebs like Kate Beckinsale, Amal Clooney, Ashley Graham, and Lucy Liu, based the presentation, which featured models meandering by the tables, posing, and at times sitting and interacting with guests, on the Cafe Society era. “This idea of ‘Beautiful People’,” he told us.
“I have been calling it an experiment in fashioning,” he said. “Is it a show? Is it a dinner? What is the line between a brand dinner and a show. And what is it all really for other than build community, to bring people into your world and to show clothes.”
Andy Warhol’s “Queen of the Night” and Thierry Mugler muse Diane Brill looked glam while taking in the looks.
Also taking in the clothes were “Avatar” star Bailey Bass and the “Real Housewives of New York’s” Jessel Taank.
Mai was recently a part of the CFDA and Genesis House AAPI Design + Innovation Grant.
