About me: Susanne Bartsch arrived in New York in 1981 with 13 years of London’s creative connections. The Swiss eccentric opened a innovative boutique in New York’s hip SoHo district. The Bartsch Boutique on West Broadway. At that time the Bartsch Boutique was carrying designers such as John Galliano, Rachel Alburn & Leigh Bowery before anyone else. The shop's cutting edge fashion show called “New London in New York” enlightened the public of Susanne's Ziegfeld-like showmanship. She then took the show to Japan which brought more buzz to her ever growing audience. In 1987, Susanne started her weekly club night Savage. A Mardi Gras-like atmosphere, multi-level entertainment with non-stop energy. Bartsch re-invigorated Manhattan’s nightlife mixing uptown and downtown, gay and straigh. Concerned and frustrated over the loss of many friends to AIDS, Susanne created “Love Ball 1” in 1989. Inspired by drag balls in Harlem various categories were created for houses. For the first time this culture involving dance/vogueing/presentation and styling was introduced to a national audience. After the success of this event Bartsch created several more Love Ball parties including the hoppening at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles and the Balad de L’Amour in Paris at the world famous Follies Bergere. She raised a total of $ 2.5 million for direct care of AIDS patients. From Armani shows in Milan to events for clients such as Dewars, Fashion Council of America, Ian Schrager Hotels, Barney’s New York, Miami Winter Music Conference,Sony and many others. Susanne remains one of the best producer of the moment,creating excitement and energy at her worldwide events.
LINKS- See USA Network's Video, Show Us Your Character with Susanne Bartsch Link click here*
* I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
Who I'd like to meet: All of my guests at the party.
Here is a sneak Peek in to my Madness Collection. Full feature will be at Fangoria's Weekend Of Horror's June 5,6,7 Jacob Javits Center Manhattan, NY Hope to see you there my friend www.MyEclecticMind.com
John Varvatos is doing a competetion for a band to get signed and perform NYC Fashion Week. We thought , ok, there is no way we're going to get chosen considering all the bands sound like "bubble gum let's have thanksgiving dinner."
But being the artist I am and having the band I do, we we're like FUCK it. We'll submit.
Awesome news is, they Accepted us!
So now we have our foot in the race, but that is just the beginning.
If you are an advocate for CHANGE and are tired of the same BULLSHIT! Let's do this together!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE QUEEN OF CLUBS! Kevin Aviance, myself & Spiros enjoying your Halloween (or Birthday?) bash MANY years ago! Love, FRANKLIN FUENTES!
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