Lasagna and Italian Denim Paired Beautifully at Closed and Selby Drummond’s Don Angie Dinner Party 

“I know you’re all here for the lasagna, but we love Closed too,” Selby Drummond said to a chorus of laughs as guests took their seats at the lauded West Village boîte Don Angie, known around the globe for their pinwheeled pasta confection. And though the Italian fare abounded, it was a distinctly global evening thanks to Closed, the recently revived Italian denim brand, founded by a Frenchman, now headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and overseen by co-CEO Til Nadler from Los Angeles. 

Nadler and Drummond, a friend of the brand by way of public relations guru Malcolm Carfrae, had assembled their loyal legions of fans from around the world and dressed nearly every guest to the nines in new Closed wares. With summer approaching quickly and red sauce be damned, white denim proved a popular selection for many partygoers, including Ahn Duong, Charly Sturm, Vogue’s Naomi Elizée and Mark Guiducci, Jacquelyn Jablonski, and Brendan Fallis. “This look is giving me a big Amalfi vibe,” Fallis said of his ensemble; an apropos sentiment. 

“We’re having this Italian evening because it’s where all of our denim is still made by hand for over four decades,” Nadler told us. “It’s also where Closed was originally founded, by a man named François Girbaud, maybe in 1978. We met him a couple of years ago, and I asked him when exactly he founded Closed. He said, in his best French accent, ‘I don’t know, we were smoking so much weed back then, I don’t remember,’ but we agreed on 1978, and we’re sticking to that story.”