Victoria Beckham Hosted a Fashionable Fried Chicken Feast With Mytheresa at Coqodaq
“Who knew I knew this many gorgeous people here in New York”—one could have hazarded a guess. After all, this was Victoria Beckham, who has a three-decade-long track record as an international style icon, at the mic. To raise a glass of champagne, and less traditionally, a bucket of fried chicken, to her glamorous holiday capsule with Mytheresa, Beckham took over her husband David’s favorite Manhattan eater, Coqodaq, to celebrate.
“Nora Ephron once said, ‘Everyone loves fried chicken, but don’t ever make it—buy it from a place that does good fried chicken,’” Mytheresa chief executive Michael Kliger told the room of the choice of venue. “We heeded her advice!”
While the Flatiron restaurant is a hard-to-get reservation at the best of times, on Thursday evening, it was even more of a scene. Ready to chow down on some caviar-topped 24K Golden Durenkai nuggets over sake and bubbles, Beckham’s friends, including Helena Christensen, Justin Theroux, Athena Calderone, Nina Dobrev, Mario Sorrenti, and Steven Klein, were among the shiny, happy people who showed up to support the designer’s third capsule for the e-tailer.
Enjoying the sounds of a vibey Sade- and Saint Germain-filled set by Dj Elias Becker—son of Boris, naturally—the banquettes looked like a Victoria Beckham campaign come to life. Models galore in draped satin gowns and jersey dresses balanced VB x Mytheresa-branded chopsticks to elegantly sample artichoke and truffle tartlets and fennel salad. None with more command than Mytheresa’s chief buying officer, Tiffany Hsu. Even in a backless tulle sequin bodysuit with a plunging neckline, she made digging into the family-style Korean feast look like a breeze, as she walked her seatmates through what was what on the spinning Lazy Susan.
When the hotly-anticipated clementine buckets of the Chef s signature better-for-you fried chicken finally made their way into the dining room, along with pickled vegetables, fries, mac and cheese, and cold perilla seed noodles, there was much fanfare. At one point, a table of stunners waited patiently while the glistening entrée had its BFA closeup.
A moment that caused equal levels of where-am-I right now excitement came when an ivory silk-clad Beckham did her rounds to each booth and took a seat, chatting to stylists and editors and exchanging notes on caviar and holiday plans. As the dinner stretched on towards 11 p.m., it’s safe to say no one was in a hurry to leave.
To end the night, little cups of soft serve with a seasonal fruit drizzle landed in front of each guest. The only thing sweeter? Leaving the dreamy evening armed with the new vanilla-rich 21:50 Rêverie fragrance from Victoria Beckham. And perhaps, a doggie bag or two of the city’s most famous chicken du jour.
Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com1/20Lorena Rae, Nina Dobrev, Cindy Mello
Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com2/20Mazdack Rassi, David Beckham, Justin Theroux