Davy Hezemans is busy during Mercedes Benz fashion week. With her Spice PR team, she hosts shows for Björn Borg, David Laport, and Supertrash, among others. She attends all her clients' shows, and her Spice Team will comb through the rest of fashion week.
“I make sure to keep my business and private life as balanced as possible, and that's why a day without fashion is also nice.” In addition, Davy is also working on starting her new company Spice ID, which will focus on representing talented individuals with beautiful products. For example, writer Karin Amatmoekrim. She has written 5 fantastic books and is well-known in the literary world, and it's time for the rest of the world to get to know this extraordinary woman.
Busy or not, Davy is where the action is. Or she has been there long ago. Our ideal BlackBook candidate, therefore.
AMSTERDAM
‘If you want to spot fashion designers and models during fashion week, you should eat at George WPA, Lion Noir or Bo Cinq. And then dance at the Jimmy Woo. Hutspot on Rozengracht, which is also up and coming. That's a concept store with a small café as well. You might just run into models there.
I tend to stay a bit away from where all those trendy people are during fashion week. I try to keep a healthy distance. For example, I go eat at Toscanini. A very nice Italian on Lindengracht that has been around for 100 years and is still great in terms of crowd and quality. I never look at the menu there, but always take the specialty of the day. Although I must say that the vitello tonato as a starter and the panna cotta with caramel sauce as dessert are delicious.
Daalder is a restaurant that has been massively upgraded with an incredibly delicious menu and food at a very high level.
Next week, it’s also handy to eat at Café Restaurant Amsterdam which is around the corner from Westergas (where most shows are held) and it’s a relaxed no-nonsense restaurant with simple and good food.
I know quite a bit about healthy eating, but I don’t necessarily pay a lot of attention to my diet. I take everything I feel like and find tasty. Healthy is a common thread, but anything that is ‘too’ is just not good.
PARIS
I prefer to stay in the Saint-Germain area. That’s really the ideal base. I have breakfast at Café de Flore. I enjoy lunch at Rose Bakery in Le Marais. I really love classics, Caesar, roasted chicken, and steak tartare, so in the evening I like to go to L’entrecote or Chateaubriand.
There’s a very small hotel next to Café de Flore, Chrystal, where I used to always stay during fashion week or couture week. It’s not hip at all, not expensive at all, and really a bit shabby, but a classic in a perfect location.
I now like to sleep in Hotel Bel Ami. That’s also a bit more expensive. In the evening, I really enjoy having cocktails at Costes. I know, everyone goes there, but it remains a very nice spot. The atmosphere is good, the food is tasty, and it has a nice mix of people. Café Charlot is also a recommendation, a kind of hip brown café, but then in a French way. By the way, there’s also a nice food market across from it.
Paris is the perfect city for me to shop. For example, APC, Acne, and Maje are totally my style. I don’t go to Colette that often anymore, I’ve seen it a bit. I only go there to buy nice fashion documentaries.
NEW YORK
When Spice PR turned 10 years old, I asked my whole team where they would like to go to celebrate. It became New York. I enlisted three girls to organize this trip. Tedje was the real organizer, Yeliz knew all the trendy hotspots, and Senna had lived in New York for a while, so she knew exactly where we needed to be. From green quinoa spots to the trendiest cocktail bars to real classics. We had a full program, but the most fun time ever. Below is a piece from the agenda. If you follow this, you have a bike ride, health, culture, and party all in one. Thanks Davy, this comes at a great time because in three weeks we will be in New York with amayzine.com
Day 1
– 09:00 Breakfast in SOHO at The Butchers Daughter. Breakfast spot, totally organic.
– 10:30 Museum: MET
– 13:00 Lunch at Magnolia Bakery
– 20:00 Drinks at the Gansevoort (rooftop).
– 21:00 Dinner at Pastis.
– After dinner, optionally a drink at CATCH, this is the it-place of the moment.
Day 2
– 07:30 Running over the Highline, then back to the hotel to shower.
– 10:00 Breakfast at the ACE hotel, where they apparently roast the best coffee in NYC.
– 11:30 Museum: MoMa, several exhibitions to see.
– 14:00 Lunch at the Lakeside Restaurant, also located by the Central Park Lake.
– 21:00 Drinks and snacks at the Boom Boom Room in the Standard Hotel.
– 23:00 Out at club The Box
Day 3
– 10:30 Brunch at The Dutch, nice spot in SOHO.
– 12:00 Bike tour with a guide through SOHO and the Meatpacking district (Secret Streets, Ground Zero, Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan)
– 18:00 Dinner at ACME in SOHO.
