Kanon Organic Vodka: Posts tagged TheMisshapes

September 10, 2011
Talking Fashion Week With Costello Tagliapietra
Jeffrey Costello (left) and Robert Tagliapietra
Fashion Week is rolling by and we're making sure the fun doesn't stop. In between pumping fashion's finest full of delicious Kanon cocktails here at MILK, we took some time out to speak with our favorite plaid-clad lads. Jeffery Costello and Robert Tagliapietra. The duo behind Costello Tagliapietra showcased their collection of ladylike silhouettes, done in super sick deconstructed florals, on Friday. We caught up with them after their show to talk inspiration, music and, of course, cocktails. And we're pretty confident that we've converted Robert into a vodka guy--because we're just that good.

Kanon Vodka: Hi! We’re with Kanon Vodka, those crazy kids who have a bar upstairs. Congratulations on the show. Can you tell us a little bit about the inspiration for today’s collection?

Robert Tagliapietra: We started with the word romance and, you know, the idea of the return for us to a romantic, feminine collection. It filtered into this floral thing where we were really exploring florals for the first time and really wanted to abstract them and remove the quality but still have the essence of creating little flowers.

KV: How do you two work together to create a cohesive collection?

Jeffrey Costello: Everything is each of us; it’s all equal!

CONTINUE READING TALKING FASHION WEEK WITH COSTELLO TAGLIAPIETRA.
June 28, 2011
FOK Portraits: Celebrating Midsummer
Adam Green
If we told you we’ve stopped talking about Midsummer, we’d be lying. Like kids after their first trip to Disneyland, we can’t help but point out every amazing detail or delicious memory we accrued. Truthfully, it was the most fun we’ve had in a long time (and that is saying A LOT), and we feel super lucky to have spent Friday with an abundance of tasty cocktails, floral crowns, rocking tunes and some of our favorite people.

Even more lucky? We had the duo from HELLO there to art direct and Jeremy Liebman there photographing our gorgeous guests– seriously, take a look at these portraits and you’ll see what we mean. Here’s a look at a few FOKs and folks who joined us at The Yard at the Soho Grand Hotel for Midsummer last week. If you haven't noticed, we're having a hard time admitting that the party's over.

All photos by Jeremy Liebman

Art direction by HELLO
FÖK: HELLO
The duo behind the creative studio HELLO, Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry, make people look good for a living. Specializing in art direction, photography, and graphic design, we were lucky enough to have them creative direct on the gorgeous portraits... more
June 27, 2011
The Party of the Year: Swedish Midsummer Overtakes NYC
Binki Shapiro and Adam Green
Something very surreal happens when you've been waiting for a particular moment for an entire year and that moment finally comes. Such was the case this past Friday afternoon, stretching into evening– and it can pretty much be summed up into one word: Midsummer. If you follow our blog, Facebook, or Twitter account, then you've inevitably heard us drop this word a lot recently. But what does it really mean? Well, if Friday's festivities were any indication, Midsummer is all about fun–which, when you break it down from our perspectives encompasses a lot of cocktail drinking, good music, friends and floral headpieces.

The ominous skies threatening to rain on our parade didn't seem to dissuade a great looking crowd from getting their hair a little wet. Our favorite Swede blogger Elin Kling hung out with us all night (sporting her DIY floral crown from Ovando Flowers), along with our other friends and FOKs, Kelly Framel of The Glamourai, Scott Lipps, The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. and Fabrizio Moretti, FOK photog Bronques, Connie Wang from Refinery29, Magnus Berger, and more.

Lydia Kellam of The Swede Beat followed by Zara Zachrisson and May Kwok helped us get the party started on the DJ table with some classic Swedish jams– think "Heartbeats," by The Knife and "All That She Wants," by Ace of Base. We didn't even need to be our usual three cocktails deep to start moving on the dance floor. And just when we didn't think it could get any better, newly formed duo Binki Shapiro and Adam Green took the stage. By the time their set was over and The Misshapes had taken over the DJ table to finish off the night's tunes, the entire party had relocated to the dance floor. We learned a few new moves that we'll be whipping out at our next event, no question. If you were lucky enough to join us in Friday's festivities, then relive it in the pictures above– and if you weren't there, well, here's a taste of Midsummer. Also, check out all the rest of the polaroids from the night on our Facebook page.

Skål!

PS- we're continuing the Midsummer party over on our Facebook page for the next month. Click here to enter our Midsummer competition to win amazing prizes like an iPad, Elie Tahari dress, 3.1 Phillip Lim bag and more.

Photos by Brandon Isralsky
June 22, 2011
Florence Welch Sips Kanon for Nylon Mag
Shenae Grimes, Marvin Scott Jarrett and Florence Welch
Tuesday nights really don't get much better than last night's Nylon Magazine cover party at the Mondrian Hotel for Florence Welch. We've clocked significant time at Sam Talbot's Imperial No. 9 and the hotel's hidden club Mister H, but we got to cover new Mondrian ground at last night's private dinner for Flo (yes, we're on a nickname basis): the Penthouse. And it more than exceeded our expectations. Besides the insane view overlooking all of Manhattan, and the gorgeous crowd that showed face, impromptu fireworks started going off near the Brooklyn Bridge circa 10 PM– we're going to go ahead and pretend that that was all part of the plan. Between failed attempts to time our fireworks photos properly (juggling a cocktail and iPhone takes practice, people), we caught FOK Harley Viera Newton and our Midsummer hosts for Friday, The Misshapes, along with Shenae Grimes and Kellan Lutz enjoying some Kanon cocktails. We couldn't have been happier.

By the time we got down to Mister H, the line was rivaling Shake Shack's and all of our specialty cocktails had run out– which we're calling a sign of a successful party. Big thanks to Nylon Magazine and Florence Welch for including us in a great event. All in all, it was a perfect New York City summer night.

Check out more exclusive photos from the event on our Facebook page.

Photos by Brandon Isralsky
June 21, 2011
Meet Our Midsummer Hosts!
Binki Shapiro and Adam Green
We’re SO close to Midsummer. Like, three days away close. And as any good party host would do, we’re making sure every detail is perfect for the big day–like taste testing the cocktails to make sure they're perfect for you (we swear). So far, it looks like we’re getting everything in place for a picture-perfect Midsummer fete come Friday. We almost can't believe it's really happening.

One of the most important aspects of party planning we’ve learned is that the people you hang out with are equally as important as the delicious cocktails you serve. So we’ve put extra thought into this year’s hosts to ensure that we haven’t talked up Midsummer without backing it up. This year we’ll have the folks from one of our favorite Swedish-centric sites, The Swede Beat, hosting our party. A few months ago we got to know the editor-in-chief and founder, Lydia Kellam, and since then we’ve been attached at the virtual hip. Cocktail, fashion, and music-loving Swedes really do stick together. Along with The Swede Beat, we’ll have a live performance by the stylish duo Binki Shapiro and Adam Green, more music to be continued by The Misshapes, Zara Zachrisson (also known as our FOK Lykke Li’s sister–music runs in the family!), May Kwok, and Swedish songstress Victoria Bergsman. We've always been told that the best things in life are worth waiting for, and luckily for us, we don’t have very long to go. See you Friday at The Yard.