A feature documentary exploring NYC culture through the influence of nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch on NETFLIX. Susanne is New York City’s patron saint of transformation and inclusion. The parties she’s thrown for three decades—from Paris to Tokyo—have provided a venue for countless creative souls and “creatures” to express themselves, come together and forget the hum-drum of the everyday. As Michael Schulman wrote in his 2013 New York Times profile, Susanne’s “empire” continues to flourish “particularly among scene seekers too green to know her history. Wherever Ms. Bartsch goes, the demimonde seems to follow, as if summoned by the bat of her curlicued fake eyelashes.” Fashion mogul John Badum once referred to Susanne as “Mother Teresa in a glitter G-string.”
Born in Switzerland, Susanne escaped the conformist haus-frau life and moved to London at 17. While there, she sold antiques and clothing at Chelsea Market, and befriended the rock royalty and underground fashionistas of the time. She moved to New York in 1981 and opened an eponymous store in SoHo where she imported all of her favorite British designers, many of whom were still in school. The London avant-garde fashions were a hit and the shop became a center of the downtown fashion scene.
CLICKSusanne has become notorious for the beautiful, strange, and outlandishly dressed people who flock to her events, for clients such as Dewar’s, Sony & Barneys and at venues like The Soho Grand Hotel, Le Bain and The Top of The Standard. “Ms. Bartsch’s name,” wrote The New York Times, “is the equivalent of a couture label.” The colorful crowd has followed her for 3 decades and still gather at her current weekly bashes in New York and special events around the world.
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