Fashion and nightlife have long made merry bedfellows in New York City, and few have exemplified this union better than legendary event doyenne Susanne Bartsch, whose flamboyant style is celebrated in the exhibit “Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch” at the Museum of FIT. The show highlights her dazzling, over-the-top party costumes as well as the British fashions she introduced to New York (in 1981 she opened a boutique in Soho where she championed emerging British designers like Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano). Bartsch’s decadent bashes, beginning in 1986 with a gathering at Savage, a club under the Chelsea Hotel, and continuing to the present with Kunst parties at Verboten in Williamsburg, have drawn haute fashionistas and downtown club kids decked out in outrageous attire for three decades.
Next Magazine: Susanne Bartsch to Get FIT Retrospective
Quipped as “the most fashionable museum in the world,” the Museum at FIT is slated to launch a retrospective exhibit on nightlife luminary Susanne Bartsch. Titled Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, the special exhibit is scheduled to run September 18 to December 5 and will feature looks from Bartsch’s personal collection from world renowned designers: Rachel Auburn, The Blonds, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, Rick Owens, Vivienne Westwood, and more ...
Fashion Times: Museum At FIT Puts Spotlight On New York City Nightlife Legend Susanne Bartsch
Nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch is set to be the subject of one of the Museum at FIT's upcoming exhibits.
"Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch," which opens this fall, will include about 80 looks from the professional party girl's personal collection of clothing and accessories from designers including John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Rick Owens, Vivienne Westwood, The Blondes, Rachel Auburn, Leigh Bowery, Pam Hogg, Stephen Jones, Alexander McQueen and Zaldy ...
FIT: Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she became renowned for creating spectacular parties where she and a diverse mix of individuals—uptown, downtown, gay, straight, multiracial—dressed up in their own versions of high fashion, street style, drag, and Mardi Gras extravaganza. Her first party took place in 1986 at a club near the Chelsea Hotel, where she has lived for many years. “It was about seeing and being seen,” says Bartsch ...
Vogue: Susanne Bartsch Talks Beauty and the Borough With the Best “Underground” Scene
“My work is my muse; I find immense inspiration in the beauty looks people turn [up in] when they come to my events,” said queen of New York City nightlife, Susanne Bartsch. Funny, seeing as the iconic host—known just as much for her club couture as she is for her epic fetes at the Copacabana—serves as an inspiration to so many. That list includes people like Thierry Mugler, who used Bartsch as a “guinea pig” for his best-selling fragrance Angel, a scent she never gets dressed without. “He tried three versions on me, and with the third one he said, ‘That’s the one.’ The others were too bubblegum-y, and then all of sudden, he came up with one that was just perrrrfect. I haven’t gotten tired of it.”
AOL: Realness: A Night of Dance Art
Exclusive video coverage, REALNESS-A Night of Dance Art. New York Party Impresario Susanne Bartsch, teams up with Zurich based party KUNT, organized by Marc Streit and Lukas Beyeler, for a night of Swiss Made REALNESS, featuring performance artist Marie-Caroline Hominal and US nightlife favorite FlucT. This event was made possible with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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Next Magazine: Susanne Bartsch, Jonté Moaning, and More Kept Realness: A Night of Dance Art Real
"It's a zoo!" someone yelled as the crowd rushed around him at Saturday's Realness: A Night of Dance Art event. Just moments before, host Susanne Bartsch floated by choking the same sentiment, "It's crazy!" she yelled, "but it's a success!" Considering it was barely an hour into the event, it definitely was ...
Abrons Art Center: Kiki with the House of Realness: Party with KUNT and Susanne Bartsch
New York Party Impresario Susanne Bartsch teams up Zurich-based party KUNT, organized by Marc Streit and Lukas Beyeler, for a festival party with a Swiss Made Focus. The event will feature performances from Swiss artists Marie-Caroline Hominal, Daniel Hellmann, Emma Murray, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, and Alexandra Bachzetsis with additional performances from NYC and US nightlife favorites including JONTE’, Gage of the Boone, VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, and FlucT – Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile.
The Village Voice: The Final Kunst of 2014 with Mykki Blanco
Susanne Bartsch & Dreamhouse put on the final KUNST! party of 2014 on Saturday, December 27 at Verboten (54 N 11th St. in Brooklyn), with former Voice cover subject Mykki Blanco as the special guest host. Music was provided by Lauren Flax, Amber Valentine, Juliana Huxtable, and Objects Permanence. Featured artists were Maria Karlberg, Gage of the Boone, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny of Superm. Photos by Maro Hagopian for the Village Voice.
Party Pick of the Week: Kunst! Hollywood Edition
When Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader created intrepid nightlife reporter Stefon, he probably attended one of legendary party diva Susanne Bartsch’s flamboyant Big Apple fetes for inspiration ...
Huffington Post: After Dark: Meet Susanne Bartsch, Party Curator And Nightlife Legend
The Huffington Post: You're a legend both within the New York and international nightlife communities. What has your journey to becoming such a prominent cultural fixture entailed?
Susanne Bartsch: I came to New York for a love affair. I came for Valentine's Day and fell in love with New York -- out of love with the guy and into love with the city ...
Next Magazine: Kunst-giving @ Verboten
Susanne Bartsch and Dreamhouse's monthly Brooklyn art rave gave thanks on Friday with music by Primo, Lauren Flax, Juliana Huxtable, and Bearcat.
Document Journal: HalloQueens with MoMA/PS1 and Susanne Bartsch
To be able to photograph the most beautiful people at HalloQueens with Susanne Bartsch and MoMA/PS1 was such a special moment. Looking through my lens and capturing the beauty, I felt like a kid in a candy store. There was so much magic in the air. I imagine it was like the feeling Dorothy must have felt while filming on the set of “The Wizard of Oz”. Much love to MoMA/PS1, Susanne Bartsch, and the entire cast and crew. Click through for a preview of the night.
Huffington Post: Susanne Bartsch Curates MoMA PS1 HalloQueens! Halloween Ball And Afterparty
Wherever you spent your All Hallows Eve, we bet it wasn't as glamorously over-the-top as this.
New York City nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pulled out all the stops this year, curating not only the annual MoMA PS1 Halloween ball but a massive after party at the Anable Basin Warehouse a half mile away.
With this being the third year that Bartsch collaborated with MoMA PS1 for the HalloQueens! ball, thousands of outlandish attendees poured through the doors of the main event and the after party throughout the night until close to sunrise ...
Out Magazine: Scenes From the Nightlife! Sex! Drugs! Lip-synch!
The “Every night is Halloween” crowd turned it out for the real Halloween on Friday, wearing even more elaborate costumes than usual thanks to an exhortation from the aforementioned party diva Susanne Bartsch and her wondrous crew of wild things like Amanda Lepore, One-Half Nelson, Gage of the Boone, and Muffinhead. La Bartsch has been branching out to the other boroughs (her monthly Kunst bash is in Brooklyn), as well as to other disciplines (she recently fused art and style for Fashion Week events around town). And now she beckoned us to the forgotten borough of Queens for her HalloQueens! event in Long Island City, a sumptuous MoMA PS1 ball followed by an art-laden after party ...
Daily Front Row: The Daily Davis: Boo! The Style Elite Reveal Their Halloween Costumes
So many cool parties and so many crazy costumes. Will you be going to Fiona Byrne‘s blood-themed bash? Heidi Klum‘s annual media mayhem circus? The Boom Boom Room, where the PYTs will be dressing super “scary”? Amy Sacco‘s No.8? Party Queen Susanne Bartsch‘s “HalloQueens” at MoMA PS1? Well, my loves, you better have your costume sorted out. It’s going to be an Instagram explosion tonight. I rang up some of the city’s chicest to find out all about their looks…
MoMA PS1: HalloQueens! Presented with Susanne Bartsch
MoMA PS1 and Susanne Bartsch present HalloQueens!
Join us to celebrate our current exhibitions at the Third Annual MoMA PS1 Halloween Ball ...
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HalloQueens! at MoMA P.S.1
Famed party promoter Susanne Bartsch, who’s thrown some of New York’s most over-the-top events since the club-kid glory days, is hosting P.S.1’s third Halloween ball. Attendees are encouraged to “come dressed for a royal celebration of all things Queens” and enter a costume competition. Hosts include Eckhaus Latta, Boychild, Telfar Clemens, Maria Cornejo, Amanda Lepore, and Michael Stipe ...