Richie Akiva is trying to outgrow the VIP section of the nightclub, reemerging in this new era by capitalizing on what’s trendy: members-only clubs. UnhappyFem reports for the 'are u coming?' newsletter
. Nightclub, nightclub, nightclub,” he tells me. “I’m a hotelier now. I’m sophisticated.” Never mind the fact that he’s still recovering from getting “fucked up” at the Box last night., in the former NoMad Hotel, is the first American outpost of a thing which started in members-club-happy London in 2017,
owned by the same public company as Soho House . Akiva is the curator and creative director — the face. “I don’t want to name-drop,” Akiva said earlier in the evening at dinner in the club’s plush dining room, chatting with me in brief spurts between fielding phone calls and other seemingly urgent inquiries from severe-looking boys in suits. It’s a brief moment of reserve. When a tight woman in a camel coat walks over to recommend a girlfriend, Akiva replies, “I hope she’s of age. If you hook me up with a wife, I’ll owe you forever.
Then, more phone calls and texts. The first from his “accountant,” even though it’s almost 11 p.m., and another either directly or indirectly — it’s not clear based on what I could observe — from “Leo.” As in DiCaprio — an Akiva buddy at least since our cover story. You could say they refused to grow up together. He’s looking for a place to watch the UFC fight tonight, and Akiva is happy to oblige. But first, some prep. A room needs to be cleared. Someone needs to find a television.
Akiva is bald now, but at one time, before he was “getting old,” he says he was a long-haired skater boy who worshiped graffiti and hip-hop and spent his time in a much grimier Tribeca. He was what the journalist Nancy Jo Sales called, in a previous 1996
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