In April 1995, the most famous supermodels in the world opened a restaurant. Three years later, it closed in disgrace. What happened?
Still, for Buti, the food fight was far from over: In December 2000, US prosecutors brought forth a 51-count indictment against him that included charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and wire fraud.
It would be easy to blame Buti alone for Fashion Cafe’s failure. However, amid a decade of themed, Disney World-esque dining experiences — this was the era when Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe, Rainforest Cafe, and Mars 2112 all existed — the public had grown weary of a gimmick. In 1999, Planet Hollywood declared bankruptcy. Mars 2112 did so three years later. From the moment Fashion Cafe opened, it was already going out of style.
“It was just such a specific era in New York restaurant history,” Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, the restaurateur behind. “Now, people have graduated into experiential things like the Van Gogh experience or the Museum of Ice Cream, or whatever. But before anyone had really done that, it was like, let’s throw a bunch of shit into a restaurant.
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