By Laura L. Griffin 9/10/12 4:25pm

Fashion Week

Screengrab. From left: Andrew Warren, TK, Peter Brant II, and TK Gruber.

Watch Boytoys Peter Brant, Jr. and Nick Gruber Perform Karaoke at Chez André [Video]

Friday, opening night at pop-up club Chez André at The Standard, East Village, found teenage dandy Peter Brant II and ex-porn star Nick Gruber, who was apparently taking a night off from writing a book and developing a TV show about his two-year relationship with Calvin Klein, on stage. The duo, joined at the mic by Andrew Warren and model Serena Marron, sang and mumbled their way through a live-band karaoke rendition of “Born to Be Wild.” We have the video evidence. Arguably, it is the best version of the song ever performed. Arguably!

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By Nate Freeman 2/01/12 12:10pm

The Wee Hours

He's Andre Saraiva. Who the hell are you?

Enchanté, Le Baron!: Andre Saraiva’s Parisian Bordello Lands in Chinatown

The huddled masses on the corner of Mulberry and Mosco had waited for a long time. They had waited through 700 days of planning, they had waited outside several hours on this first night, and then they had waited to get the nod from a doorman. They had waited for the opening of Le Baron, the Chinatown outpost of Andre Saraiva’s famous Paris club.

“Stand in a straight line!” a bouncer yelled. Read More

By Foster Kamer 1/11/12 4:08pm

FRENCH GUYS

Andre.

Le Baron, New York City’s Most Anticipated Nightclub Basically Ever, is En Route

French nightlife impresario Andre Saraiva’s Le Baron—with respective locations in Paris and Tokyo, easily two of the most exclusive nightlife spots in the known universe, the likes of which you will never see the inside of—has been anticipated as the messanic salvation of New York City nightlife. Especially ever since word of its stateside arrival was confirmed…in March 2010. Read More

By Nate Freeman 6/15/11 11:39am

The Transom

Dexter-Jones and Saraiva.

Andre Saraiva: The Nightlife Baron to Save New York

For nearly a year, red-eyed connoisseurs of New York after midnight have been waiting, impatiently, for French graffiti guy Andre Saraiva to open his Manhattan branch of the notorious Paris sin den Le Baron and save the city’s nightlife. The chosen nook of Mulberry Street has been cordoned off, with little to no activity for Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/27/11 10:19pm

SOCIALOINS

Sex and/or Breakfast with Socialite Annabelle Dexter-Jones: Like “Strangling a Crocodile”

In one of the better openers of writing about nightlife characters, this one’s up there. André Saraiva — the man behind The Standard’s Le Bain and Paris/Tokyo uber-exclusive nightlife destinations Le Baron (coming this September to Manhattan!) — gets the profile treatment in the May issue of BlackBook. It begins when BlackBook editor Megan Conway arrives Read More

By Irina Aleksander 6/24/10 7:00pm

Now Open: The Standard’s Roof

Last night was the official opening of Le Bain, the bar located on The Standard’s roof above the Boom Boom Room. Le Bain, which has a separate entrance from its downstairs club, is the work of the two Andrés–hotelier André Balazs, that is, and André Saraiva, the graffiti artist and nightclub entrepreneur (Le Baron in Read More