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THE NEW YORK FREAKS

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If you have been to any club worth its salt in New York City over the past three decades, then you have undoubtedly run into transter Kenny Kenny . Kenny Kenny, the ubiquitous and fabulous queen of New York nightlife has run the door at Savage, The Copa, Palladium, USA, Limelight, Spa, Plaid, and hosting more recently HOME to name a few. Kenny has had much success running parties such as Ultra, Buckingham, Distortion Disco, and Happy Valley Tuesdays, which he collaborated with Susanne Bartsch. His first door man job was Susanne Bartsch’s SAVAGE which he ran with Gene Crell and partied with some of the greatest including Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Faye Dunaway, Debbie Harry, Bette Midler, etc. Certainly Peter Geishen’s limelight was one of Kenny Kenny’s biggest gigs in the late 90s, when Peter and Steve Lewis basically ran the a large part of the New York scene. But our fondest recollection of Kenny Kenny was when he  was at Spa. For those of you who never ventured inside, it was a truly tremendous club with a super eclectic crowd and a great layout (which you can see part of in the movie Made, starring Vince Vaughn, P. Diddy and John Favreau). But we digress…the point of our story was that as you neared the front of the line, Kenny Kenny would start taking notice of you, and checking you out. And at the moment he started to let your party in, he would line up everyone in your group and scan them from head to toe, scrutinizing each and every little fashion detail. He himself had been involved in fashion his entire life, studying it along with textile design at the Dublin National College of Art and Design and starting his own line under Rachael Auburn in London. If Kenny Kenny spotted a fashion faux paus, it was generally something you could not recover from, and that was the end of your night…it was true hilarity! NICKY LONDON COLUMN MENU

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* pictures by GAZELLE ** pic by Jesse Chehak /  iD magazine co-ordination by Kenny Kenny  ( october 2006 )