If the duties of a brand ambassador seem a bit vague, consider the task appointed to Hendrick’s Gin delegate Charlotte Voisey. At last night’s Hendrick’s burlesque party, held at the New Orleans Roosevelt Hotel (N.B. This is the birthplace of the Sazerac cocktail), we found her dressed in a winged fairy-princess costume, which she wore for the duration of the event. TONY would never do that to us. Oh wait.
The crowd—which included NYC talent like Don Lee (Momofuku Ssam Bar) and Jason Kosmas (Employees Only, Macao Trading Co.)—was duly impressed with the production value of this bash, featuring a menagerie of peculiar performers and a Box-worthy burlesque show. The evening’s MC, trussed up in eerie Victorian whiteface, sang “Figaro” while stripping down to leather chaps; a corset-bound babe performed auto-erotic asphyxiation with her own (faux, natch) severed forearm. And a legless beauty gyrated 15 feet above the bar, dispensing Hendrick’s cocktails.
When the Roosevelt cooled down, the group moved on to the nearby House of Blues for a drunken after-party celebrating absinthe doppelgänger Herbsaint. Exhaustion sets in…now.
Photos: Daniel Krieger
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