The Daily Front Row raised a glass to NYFW with ‘polished-to-performance’ apparel brand GSTQ and its powerhouse founder Dany Garcia at our favorite Italian eatery, Scarpetta. The celebration took the form of an intimate dinner, with tastemakers from near and far joining in the fun. Let’s discuss!
Guests gathered at the upscale Madison Avenue restaurant’s candle-lit private dining room to catch up over a pre-dinner cocktail or two—not before taking advantage of the photo booth and flipping through the latest issue of the Daily which greeted them upon arrival. Guests sipped margaritas and custom ‘The Spark’ cocktails made with responsibly-sourced ultra-premium tequila Teremana. Teremana fittingly means ‘spirit of the earth’—and oh were people in good spirits ahead of Fashion Month.
Garcia, who founded the luxe apparel brand to bridge the gap between dress codes and between fashion and function, welcomed the well-dressed crowd, introducing them to her team who’ve been mainly with her since day one, and excitedly talked the attendees through what to expect from GSTQ’s first presentation at NYFW, which was set to take place the following morning.
Dany Garcia, Katie Mayne
Scarpetta served up a delectable family-style meal of its most crowd-pleasing dishes, such as roasted beet salad, creamy polenta with truffled mushrooms, raw yellowtail, a pasta course of mouth-watering spaghetti, tagliatelle, and short rib and bone marrow agnolotti, as well as roasted chicken, hanger steak, and delightful espresso budino, ricotta cheesecake, and Valrhona chocolate cake to end the night on the perfect note.
Among those in attendance were Tessa Brooks, Olay Noel, Aqua Parios, Cass Dimicco and Matthew Leonard Hoyle, Uche and Clinton Moxam, Tefi Valenzuela, Keke Lindgard, Andrew Matarazzo, Justin Livingston, Zoi Lerma, Yana Bononi, Tiff Benson, Severine Keimig, Mariah Strongin, Bailee Henderson, Katerina Dune, Tyshon Lawrence, Dave Rienzi, Jerrold Smith, GSTQ CEO Katie Mayne, and more.
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- Dany Garcia
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- Matthew Hoyle, Cass Dimicco
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- Bailee Henderson
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- Olay Noel
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- Severine Keimig
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- Andrew Matarazzo
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- Tyshon Lawrence
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- Tessa Brooks
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- Katie Mayne, Dave Rienzi, Dany Garcia
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- Aqua Parios
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- Justin Livingston
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- Katerina Dune
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- Uche and Clinton Moxam
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- Freya Drohan, Ewa Budka, Aqua Parios
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- Yana Bononi
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- Katie Mayne, Aqua Parios
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- Mariah Strongin
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- Arianna
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- Keke Lindgard
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- Tiff Benson
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- Andrew Matarazzo
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- Jerrold Smith
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- Kristhle Hernandez
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- Maya Yearwood, Nathan Simpson
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- Tefi Valenzuela, Zoi Lerma
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- Mariah Strongin, Bailee Henerson
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- Mariah Strongin in GSTQ
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- Yana Bononi, Julie Jules
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- Mariah Strongin, Eddie Roche, Keke Lindgard
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- Mariah Strongin, Freya Drohan, Eddie Roche, Keke Lindgard, Justin Livingston
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- Team GSTQ
Images: Caroline Fiss
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