A TRIP TO ST. VINCENT’S
SOUVENIR BY DILETTA LOBUONO A new, slightly unusual, cocktail bar opened last Friday, November 22nd, in 6a Langley Street, Covent Garden. Sure, it was only open for two days, and thus very easy to miss, but for those who didn’t, it was an incredible couple of nights. I’m talking about Souvenir, a cocktail bar created by the Grammy-winning American songwriter and guitarist St. Vincent, real name Annie Clark, in collaboration with Veuve Clicquot, the world-famous French Champagne house. If you know and love the St.Vincent as much as I do, you will also be very familiar with her eccentricity and peculiar creative vision. Suffice to say, during the last leg of her tour, she kindly asked her musicians to play with their faces completely covered, leaving the crowd wondering how and if they could even breathe. Humans dressed as aliens, deformed faces and surreal interviews were all part of the videos and promotion of her last album, Masseduction. For this project, Clark wanted to give life to a place where everyone would immediately step into another, parallel dimension and multisensory experience, and, I have to say, she absolutely succeeded. To do this, she worked with a collective of new creators, designers, and mixologists who helped her to achieve the desired result. It is true that Souvenir bar
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