Climbing three flights of stairs, the Grazia fashion team arrive in the same room where, just days earlier, we’d viewed Gareth Moody’s A/W collection for Chronicles Of Never. We were ready for a drink – and we got a whole lot more.
Bloody Marys and glasses of Moet greeted us on arrival and the clothes from the showing had been hoisted up onto the roof. Deli-esque hunks of meat, rustic bread loaves and vintage top hats set the scene on long wooden tables. We were in for a feast! Bon appetit indeed!
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Reminiscent of the dinner sequence in the noir film The Cook The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, decadent food arrived at our table in mounds, courtesy of North Bondi Italian’s Maurice Terzini. Chicken, lamb, pork, huge spuds and asparagus…For the vegetarians among us? Lettuces were cut into quarters and stuffed with mushrooms.
As we ate and chatted under the hanging clothes, violinist Naomi Random and pianist David Lane played. This didn’t feel like a Surry Hills showroom any more, we’d been transported to another world.
Gareth had managed to throw a perfect intimate thankyou dinner like no other. It felt as raw and authentic as his clothes do.
Images: Rupert Tapper.
