Kelly Cutrone has been around for a long time.  Way before Lauren Conrad ever stepped into People’s Revolution.  Before the Hills, Kelly Cutrone was New York’s Kelly, and an integral part of our city’s nightlife.  She  recently sat down with our favorite nightlife king, Steve Lewis for an interview. This was my favorite part:

SL: In all of this, you’re doing this TV show. Now, the people at JoonBug office are saying, ‘You know Kelly Cutrone? How could you know Kelly Cutrone?’ I go ‘I know people, I’ve known Kelly for a long time.’ They don’t believe me. So I’m doing this interview by myself, I’m usually surrounded by people that help me spell and all that. And they don’t believe that I’m talking to you here. Now why are these people so impressed?

KC: I don’t know. People have to celebrate mediocrity.

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Guestofaguest’s editor in chief Holly Golightly recently sat down with nightlife legend (and friend) Steve Lewis of goodnightmrlewis.com, to chat about her journey to the big apple, the birth of guestofaguest, club kids, and more!  You can read the first installment of the interview HERE.

As previously shared, my long running fascination with all things club kids, is largely due to Steve Lewis. When I got the chance to interview the man himself, you better believe I took it. Below, the “naive boy from Queens” tells me all about his favorite “outlaw parties”, the nights with Dee Dee Ramone, Michael Alig and the Club Kids, running Moschino’s first American fashion show, oh and the several notorious clubs he’s designed and run. Steve has helped define our city’s night life history, he’s met every famous partier over the past several decades, and he is truly a one of a kind New Yorker with a heart of gold. He could fill countless volumes of books with the stories of things he has experienced throughout his long reign as one of our cities’ nightlife kings. Until that happens, we will all have to settle for his blog; “Good Night Mr. Lewis“, which, in it’s very short run, he has already carried on detailed interviews with some key players in the industry including Noah Tepperberg, Danny A, and Wass Stevens. The tables have turned, as I am the one that gets to ask HIM the questions now….

Where did you grow up? What was your childhood like?
I grew up in Queens, New York to a decidedly middle class and happy family. We had a house in rural Connecticut also, and my best memories are fishing and walking through dense woods with my brothers and cousin Ron. My window in Queens had a direct view of the Empire State building and each night as I fell asleep, I would look at it and vow to live on one of the upper floors. I never felt even as a lad like I belonged in Queens, I always felt I belonged in Manhattan. I traveled there constantly as a very young kid by subway, it was a time when you could do that without fear, I was too naïve to be afraid of anything which describes a lot of my club life also.

When did you start getting into the NY nightlife “scene”?
I always wanted to run a saloon. Rick from Casablanca was my role model and I spent years learning to think like him. My first party was my friend Dee Dee Ramone’s birthday at Max’s Kansas city. If you can remember years or dates in this biz, you were never successful.

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