Post Party Interview
Post Party is a European party series embodying everything we love in nightlife. Thrown by Wolf, Vasyl, and Lux, their nights have been covered by editorials such as Vogue Italia and The Face, and been shot by Hedi Slimane.
During their first NYFW party, we sat down with ⅔’s of the crew at Welcome to the Johnson’s, shared $3 PBR’s, and had a Conversation About Nothing.
Who and what is Post Party?
Wolf: I think really, it's everyone who performs, everyone who comes. It's a growing thing. I think it would be easy to list off people that are involved every time, like myself, my brother, Vasyl, but in the truest sense, it's everyone that comes and attends and performs. For context, I've met kids that have come to one party and then have come and shot the next 2 or 3, and then that's in a magazine. Before this was just a kid, and now he's a photographer and he's a part of it. So I think it's a growing thing and it's everyone that's there. That’s what it’s about.
What's your pre or post party ritual?
W: I think pre... you get inebriated to deal with it, to be honest. And then after you carry on.
V: Just continue.
Favorite place to dance?
W: It’s with a girl. I love being at a show with my brother, jumping up and down and shit. But I'd rather just be with a girl, fuck all my friends off.
V: Opposite
What inspired the visual direction of the party?
W: I think it's a few things. Part of it is wanting it to be clear and feel strong and about silhouettes and things. Things being what they are, not what they can be or can be interpreted to be.
When you're thinking of the visual direction from the start, I never wanted it to be postmodern. I never wanted it to be like the flyer with an iPhone 5 with all the names on it in a tattoo font with a baby in someone's stomach. I was always like, what the fuck? Just put the fucking names on the flyer. And if you want to do a graphic, do a graphic. It was always conscious that it should be clear and about the people performing and about the information.
All of the references of flyers and that kind of imagery we take from things before the 2000s, before the 90s.
You want to make people believe that when they go and when they attend, the way they dress and the way they look matters and is important, and how their friends dress is important, and that they might meet someone and start making music or start making art or feel inspired or fall in love or cheat on their fucking boyfriend or whatever they end up doing. You want people to have that belief that something will happen tonight. And I think through using imagery which is really direct and showing and telling and emotional, you are gonna get that back.
Drink of choice at a shitty bar?
W: You might not know it. I don’t think they have it here but it's called Buckfast. What they is is “Buckfast gets you fucked fast.” It's this tonic wine, mostly drunk in Scotland, brewed in England by monks. It’s a wine bottle you know and I think there's about 13 cans of Red Bull worth of energy in each bottle. It's like liquid cocaine. They only sell them in fucking rotten bars. You can get a shot of it. It's a Scottish classic.
Vasyl: I would say Vodka shot, I would go simple. Thats the first thing you want to feel in a shit bar, you just wanna feel fucked you know.
Historical club that Post Party would've been best at?
W: What's the club called and they made a band. They ended up making a band. It was at the Viper Room in LA. I think it's like Johnny Depp, Keith Richards. That was Johnny Depp's club, right? I think the bands were like Hollywood Vampires or something? We’d have to look. They had a drinking club or something. I feel like that. Yeah, something like that. I feel like that could be a good answer.
You know what it is, yeah, if there's a historical club Post Party could be at, It would be the first Post Party. That's what it would be. It'd be the Post Party of last year. Fuck all the other shit.
V: I agree with what he said.
How does nightlife/partying tie into culture as a whole?
W: It's massive. I think one amazing thing, and I'm sure you guys see similar stuff, about putting stuff on is that you get to see how connected these things are. A kid that will come and DJ for $100, or a kid that will come and photograph things or a kid that will just fucking put a nice outfit on because he wants to meet people or have some friends or whatever—this person might end up being the next David Bowie or fucking Fakemink or Hedi or whoever. And you only get to see or we only become aware of these people when they are what they are. But the truth is that these guys were doing bullshit going out every weekend and these girls were going out every weekend before they were anybody. So these things are so intrinsically linked in the biggest way and it's a real privilege to get to see it.
V: I love it bro, I live by it. I just feel like it brings life around. During the fucking time, economically and politically, it's really fucked nowadays. And people having a great life during the night takes all this whole stress away from them—being at work, not having enough money or anything—and just being themselves. I think that's what it is nowadays, being in the nightlife, and I think that's the main thing, especially in cities like New York, London, Paris, all of them.
Last song you were listening to?
W: "Durango" by Pz’
Honorable mention: “Feel So Close” by Calvin Harris
V: “YOUNGEST IN CHARGE” by OFB
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