In true Alice + Olivia fashion, Stacey Bendet hosted an over-the-top fifth annual Pride event Wednesday night with a “Camp Pride” theme. Combining Pride Month with kids going off to summer camp, Alice + Olivia created bunk bed cabins; a camp canteen stuffed with Nilla wafers, Lays potato chips, T-shirts, hoodies and Barnum’s animal crackers; an oversize canoe crammed with flowers, and camp-themed activations akin to friendship bracelet making, tetherball and cornhole.
And, what you’d probably never find at a good summer camp, bars that looked like camp lifeguard stations, serving Astral Tequila cocktails.
“That is our fifth 12 months and it’s gotten larger and more fun every 12 months,” said Stacey Bendet, founder and inventive director of Alice + Olivia, noting last 12 months’s theme was “Pride Prom.”
“We at all times like a theme that’s colourful and fun and completely satisfied and decided ‘let’s do summer camp,’ and make it art and activities and letter writing. And the letters are all going to the youngsters on the Ali Forney Center,” said Bendet, who attended Camp Emerson as a toddler. The party was held on the Close East Lawn in Chelsea and featured a live performance by Kenzie and DJ Ty Sunderland, situated on an enormous rainbow stage.
The event advantages the Ali Forney Center, which is the biggest LGBTQ community center helping LGBTQ homeless youth.
Among the many guests were Katie Holmes, Ariana DeBose, Dylan Mulvaney, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Maddie Ziegler, Alexandra Richards, Brooks Nader and Cuba Gooding Jr.
“As a designer, a CEO and a mother, I feel it’s not only our responsibility, but our privilege to actively take part in Pride and have a good time inclusivity, diversity and love in all forms,” said Bendet.
In honor of Pride, all Alice + Olivia stores and e-commerce are offering a 20 percent discount on purchases when shoppers donate to Ali Forney Center’s Amazon registry through Sunday. The registry provides basic necessities to LGBTQ homeless youth that find themselves on the Ali Forney Center.
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