RHONY’s Leah McSweeney, leaving a party at Nublu in the East Village. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar When I first moved to New York from college in the Midwest to intern at the Cut, my first reporting assignment was covering Fashion Week, which meant going to as many of the many, many brand-sponsored open-bar parties as I could get invited to and writing about anything funny or newsworthy that took place, hopefully involving a drunk celebrity.
7:45 p.m. | I walk up to Tamarind, a swanky Indian restaurant in Tribeca , which is thronged by neighborhood families — hot dads, even hotter, stilettoed moms, and their whiny children climbing out of big black Escalades — not the fashion crowd. I find Leah, sporting a powder-blue corset and sparkling track pants, at the bar with her friend, a gravelly-voiced, tatted mother of two who’s quick to talk about her dating life.
8:40 p.m. | We order $900 worth of wine, cocktails, and spicy, saucy dishes — an awful pre-going-out meal, I think to myself, looking down at a dress that is already too tight. After Leah eats two dainty spoonfuls of crispy spinach salad, she’s already feeling better, smiling and asking questions to the table. “I’m gonna be a basic bitch and take pictures of my food, because I love it,” she whispers to me when her halibut arrives, pulling out her iPhone and turning on the flash.
Kelly Cutrone gets down in an Uber. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar 10:30 p.m. | Three desserts arrive at the table, but no one really eats them. Kelly conducts an energy reading. 11:45 p.m. | Back in an Uber, Kelly grabs the aux, asks the driver to turn up the volume, and plays “Heels On,” by Lady Saw. The women start dancing in the back seat, throwing their skinny arms in the air and singing the song together . After, Kelly plays House of Pain’s “Jump Around” and rolls her window down to beg people in the crosswalk to dance along. Some do, willingly!
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