Inside Alan Faena’s All-White Hideout, Where Fashion Week’s Finest Came to Play

From his famed Buenos Aires hotel to his namesake district in Miami, Alan Faena creates an oasis everywhere he goes. This time it was with white velvet, chilled Perrier-Jouët, and staggering city views. On Thursday evening the hotelier and his cousin, Sebastian, hosted all their friends at Faena’s moody Manhattan pied-à-terre as a way of taking a pause before a buzzy month of shows, travels, and events. Faces like Kaia Gerber, G Eazy, and Lourdes Leon flocked to Chelsea in droves for the bash.

Guests entered the milk-white loft (sartorially not unlike Faena’s wardrobe, whose trademark look is sporting white from head-to-toe) and immediately pursued the rotation of Italian hors d’oeuvres, signature aperitifs, and oysters. Both modern and retro in design, the loft is home to an assemblage of art and design pieces that capture the zeitgeist of the ’70s with gusto. Every inch is upholstered in silk-velvet, trimmed in gold, and polished to perfection.

Around the cylindrical couch, greetings were plentiful, conversations were rich, and cocktails were, prudently, anything but red. Warmed with booze, guests swapped stories, shared September plans from New York to Paris, and, of course, lauded the apartment (“I just went to the restroom, and on the way in, I got to see that iconic hat collection. That’s where he keeps those hats!” giggled Caroline Vreeland). From above, the ceiling-size mirror invited eyes to wander across the room, making it almost too good not to eye the other partygoers.

For Faena, his greatest point of pride is the company he keeps. “I always look to recreate the vibe of the social life of the 1970s and the ’80s in New York City, where musicians, artists, and designers not only partied together but also created together in fully immersive environments. And that’s what happens at my parties.” Indeed it does.