Descend into The Django and also you’ll really feel such as you’ve entered one other world. The subterranean jazz membership, with its vaulted ceilings and uncovered brick partitions, was modeled after the boîtes of Paris.
CREDITS:
COLLABORATORS:
Dr. Stephanie Lake and the Bonnie Cashin Archive
Pipenco Lorena
Andrea Bergart
Tomtex
PRODUCTION | C. O’Neil Productions by Cathleen O’Neil
PR | Lindsey Media
HAIR | Gary Baker at Unite Hair
MAKEUP | Claire Perez at New York Make-up Academy
TALENT | Crawford Fashions
STYLING + CASTING
Olivia Cheng and The Dauphinette Group
Kate Bailey
Ev Tschirhart
Eleanor Dunn
Dani Duffy
JAZZ RAND | Ben Karon Quartet
BEVERAGE | Lillet
FOOTWEAR | Vans
HOSIERY | Les Belles
VENUE | Django on the Roxy Lodge
Dauphinette
Images: Yanran Xiong
ABOUT DAUPHINETTE:
Dauphinette was based in 2018 by Olivia Cheng, debuting with one-of-a-kind, Made-in-New-York outwear from recycled and byproduct fur and leather-based, classic, and artisanal elements. Cheng has since grown the model to incorporate purses and equipment, plus a tightly conceptualized number of ready-to-wear. The result’s a dreamy assortment of advanced, optimistic, storied items — a sense Cheng hopes to encourage in our wearers. Immediately, the model is finest identified for its use of preserved botanicals and repurposed textiles, and may be found blooming in every single place from its West Village flagship to the Met Museum’s Costume Institute exhibition, In America: A Lexicon of Vogue.
In French, Dauphin refers back to the king’s eldest son, i.e. inheritor to the throne. Coupled with the historically female suffix -ette, this image of the outdated feudalistic order takes on new company.
