Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

My NY roommate has a daughter. And her daughter has a friend from Brazil who came to stay with us for her birthday. The friend had other Brazilian friends who also came to stay with us for a week. To make the long story short, we were about seven Brazilian women staying in my Manhattan apartment. Yes, we do live in NY, but we cannot give up our Brazilian lifestyles especially when it has to do with hospitality and full house. Thus I spent a weekend like if I was sixteen.

For a sixteen year old Brazilian girl to spend her birthday in New York is, no doubt, a new and exciting experience, and if Audrey Hepburn had breakfast at Tiffany, her dinner party could take place at Downtown Cipriani.

When Milton, the impeccable host (who never accepts any reservation as it is the family policy for the restaurant), received our phone call about our wish to spend a birthday at their place, announcing only one day in advance that we were going to be 16 people to be seated in the restaurant’s small Italian-style intimate low tables that barely fit 4, asked very politely if we could be kind next time to let him know a little longer in advance because it was not an easy task to achieve on a February Saturday night just a week before the Fashion Week event with an average of an hour and a half waiting at the impossible to seat bar counter.

But Milton is like family for us, and the girls grew up at Cipriani, what could he ever possibly do? And he did exactly what makes him one of the best hosts in town; allocated us comfortably with a warm smile. There we are, myself, my friend, and 14 glamorous dreamful girls landing in a cold Saturday evening at the Cipriani Downtown restaurant whose owners —the father Arrigo (Harry) and son Giuseppe Cipriani— made the legendary 1931 Venetian Harry’s bar, one of the most exquisite places to dine during the Dolce Vita times. Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Orson Welles and Peggy Guggenheim were among their clients at that time; tonight, the guests were 16-year-old Brazilian girls, and their American friends.

The “Ciprianesque crowd” made up of glamorous girls and tanned men sipping Bellinis (the cocktail) and savouring Carpaccios (sliced beef) envied and despised by the old-money New York establishment could not believe our entrance in the restaurant.

“Excuse me is it a Bar-Mitzvah party? Or a sweet sixteen? And please… what language are you talking? Are you all friends?”
The girls shared their worlds smiling and answering to the questions asked while an incredibly hansome man from Dubay offerd himself to take a picture of all of us, it is not only about Giselle or Kate Moss, after all they were shining too in the trendy and crowded Soho area.
Sienna Miller, Lindsay Lowen, Kate Moss are among their model example, boulimia or drug behavior are of course out of question.

They go to clubs like Sambao, Caine, Lotus, Bungalow 8, Disco, Bowery Ballroom, Lit and Cafeteria. The music varies from the group Strokes, Artic Monkeys, Jota Quest, Pagode, Belle and Sebastian. They like to dress in Forum, What Comes Around Goes Around, Big Drop, Guerrero’s “Tete de Mort” collection by Adriana Bittencourt, Rock Lili, Carina & Foley. Their NY evening Saturdays are spent at the nowadays’ famous Misshapes Dj parties where they often come across Madonna, Gemma Ward, and Hedi Slimane. Some work at American Apparel, others love Madison art galleries and are passionate about the painter Modigliani…

One of them, dressed with a gorgeous Moroccan caftan and a Pashmina, asks me:.. …”Have you heard about a place called Buddha Bar?” After my affirmative answer I get an invitation for the NY opening next month —apparently the establishment franchise belongs to her family—, while the other one currently invited to work for the most renovated PR at the Fashion week next Friday reminds me not to be late for the super hot and trendy Sass and Bide show, if I still want to get the first row and take good pictures for my blog. Apparently, when the mother of one of them asked her daughter to go to church, the answer was that she didn’t need to do so because she had already read the Bible, and the Bible, tia Joelle said, is Vogue!!!!!

If I thought I had a good network of connection around the world, these girls clearly showed me still, who I want to be when I grow older.

My questions to you:

1. If you are reading me and you are a teen, let me know where, and how and with whom, do you dream to spend your birthday in Brazil or anywhere else in the world. (My sponsors might consider —who knows!— to make that dream come true
2. If you are reading me and are not a teen, what do you thing of teens today and where do you thing they are going in their future… Are they going to make that difference in our beloved planet?

Related Links:

The restaurant:http://www.cipriani.com/cipriani/HomeUS/welcomeb.htm
The Journal:http://www.ikeepadiary.com/
The party:http://www.misshapes.com/
The Jewelry: http://www.guerreiro.com/ http://www.armsandarmory.com/
The Music: http://www.myspace.com/evachavelamusic
The People:http://www.makeoutclub.com/

The Clubs:
Cain
544 W 27th St
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-8000
Cross Street: Between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue

Club Disco
Rua Prof. Atílio Inocenti, 160
Itaim Bibi – São Paulo – Brasil
055 – 11 – 3078.0404

http://www.clubdisco.com.br