Inside the Interview x Casablanca Party With Delilah Summer Parillo

FRIDAY 10:29 PM NOVEMBER 14, 2025 LOS ANGELES

On Friday night in Beverly Hills, no inclement weather could stop Interview’s lovers and friends from gathering at the brand-new Casablanca flagship, the brand’s first brick-and-mortar store in the U.S., for a very early-aughts style dinner. After a rough year for our second favorite American metropolis, it was clear that Los Angeles is very much back. For Casablanca’s founder and creative director Charaf Tajer, the city of angels has been something of a lodestar—a “living paradox,” as he put it. That much was clear on a rain-soaked Friday evening, where guests like Sky Ferreira, Jordan Wolfson, Yves Tumor, and Chloe Cherry were greeted by a giant foot sculpture before consuming pasta and dessert (best enjoyed atop the dinner table, a la internet hot girl Delilah Summer Parillo, pictured above). Later on in the evening, we ventured to the iconic Sheats-Goldstein residence for the after-party—otherwise known as Club James, named for Mr. James Goldstein himself. Between sugar-free Red Bulls, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg peeled away for a cigarette with Parillo. “We’re at the best club in L.A.,” she declared. And who could argue otherwise?

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MEL OTTENBERG: I’m interviewing you guys. We’re just having a cigarette. Let’s smoke.

DELILAH PARILLO: Yeah. I’m waiting for my skinny cig.

OTTENBERG: It’s one of those biblical weather moments where one should stay home but everyone just came out for a good time instead.

PARILLO: I know. It’s raining. Everyone’s freaking out, but it’s totally fine. I just saw five guys in one bathroom.

OTTENBERG: I mean, it’s very that.

PARILLO: Five.

OTTENBERG: I mean, this party is pumping. They gave me six Red Bulls, and that’s my era’s version of five guys in a bathroom. You know what I’m saying?

PARILLO: What would happen if you could snort Red Bull?

OTTENBERG: I don’t know, but I’m out. They don’t have Red Bull here, and I forgot to tell them that my rider was sugar-free Red Bulls.

PARILLO: Oh no, nobody knew.

OTTENBERG: But it’s cute. This is fun. The dinner was fun. Delilah got on the table.

PARILLO: Several times. Now we’re at the best club in L.A.

OTTENBERG: We are at the best club in L.A, and it’s the Casablanca after-party at Club James next to the Sheats-Goldstein residence in Beverly Hills. Everybody’s here it seems, and looking gorgeous.

PARILLO: I call it Club Jimmy.

OTTENBERG: Club Jimmy? Okay.

PARILLO: He just asked for my Instagram.

OTTENBERG: Oh, wow. I love that. Oh my god, we took pictures with this seven-foot woman.

PARILLO: Oh, she’s incredible.

OTTENBERG: She’s amazing.

PARILLO: Oh my god.

OTTENBERG: Ekaterina Lisina, she’s so fucking fab. Let’s talk about these pieces. What are you wearing? You’re wearing a sequined…?

PARILLO: I’m wearing a flocked chiffon top with a little bow, a very holiday sequin skirt, some nylons, and little pointy black heels.

OTTENBERG: Are those Casablanca too?

PARILLO: Yes, everything. And little earrings. My look today, I was thinking very, very lady. I felt like it’s very presidential. I really like this lady look that’s going on in Paris. It’s like YSL. Celine has been doing it. It’s very proper. It’s a buttoned-up vibe that I like. It’s not really me, but I like to pretend.

OTTENBERG: Pretend like you’re a lady, get up on that dinner table and eat your dessert for the cameras.

PARILLO: Yeah.

OTTENBERG: I dig it. I like the Paris style. Okay, there’s Jon Rafman. He’s great. I wanted him to take some photos of us at the dinner and turn us into monsters or A.I. or something, but he didn’t do it.

PARILLO: I wanted him to make you float above the table like an angel. We had a really good conversation about alchemy and how gold cannot be created. And we were talking about ancient Assyrian culture. He believes that it’s not assimilated in Western culture. I disagree a bit. So we were having a historical discussion.

OTTENBERG: What are you drinking right now?

PARILLO: I am drinking a skinny margarita.

OTTENBERG: And then you’re waiting for what kind of cigarette?

PARILLO: A skinny cigarette.

OTTENBERG: Who’s bringing it?

PARILLO: Kailand. My favorite is a Vogue, but in America we have to make do with Capris.

OTTENBERG: Wait, they don’t have Vogues here?

PARILLO: No, they don’t sell them here. They’re not American. They’re only in Europe.

OTTENBERG: Who’s that? Oh, there’s Jacob and Gigi. Is there a drama going on down there? It’s not our problem, really. I’m off-duty now. I can’t be responsible for anyone’s problem anymore. 

PARILLO: I’ve never seen Jacob get into a fight.

OTTENBERG: There’s no fight. It was a false alarm.

PARILLO: Do you know who Kailand is? Kailand is Stevie Wonder’s son.

OTTENBERG: Oh, wow. He’s great. 

PARILLO: [Laughs]

OTTENBERG: Yeah, he’s fine.

PARILLO: I don’t know if we can put that in, but…

OTTENBERG: Why, is that a secret?

PARILLO: It’s not a secret.

OTTENBERG: Hey, Taurus.

TAURUS: Hey.

OTTENBERG: Hey, Mara.

MARA: Hello.

NIKI TAKESH: This is hot. How are you?

OTTENBERG: Hi, darling. I’m good.

TAKESH: Congrats.

OTTENBERG: Thank you. What’s going on down here?

TAKESH: I was just telling them that they were hot.

OTTENBERG: They’re too hot, yeah.

TAKESH: Oh, are we talking? Is this for Interview?

OTTENBERG: Yeah, it’s for Interview. We’re smoking.

TAKESH: What’s the question?

OTTENBERG: It’s a smoke break. I don’t know.

TAKESH: I heard a rumor that Hailey Bieber’s GQ party was here last night, but I think this party’s better.

OTTENBERG: Oh, I think this party’s good. Your fur is real, so are your tits.

TAKESH: Yeah, my tits.

OTTENBERG: What are you drinking? Are you drinking a virgin margarita?

TAKESH: I am drinking a Sprite on the rocks, and my tits are real and the fur is real.

OTTENBERG: Okay, nice.

TAKESH: And I love Casablanca. And I love Casa James Goldstein.

OTTENBERG: Oh my god, yeah. 

TAKESH: And that photo that you were trying to take a photo of in the bathroom, that was so good.

OTTENBERG: Oh, yeah. That photo of Kristen McMenamy by Philip-Lorca diCorcia for W of Kristin in James’s bedroom. I always thought that had been taken in another Lautner house but no, it’s from here of course. One of the great L.A. photographs.

JULIAN RIBEIRO: Hey, what happened to Ekaterina, the really tall woman?

TAKESH: I’m not sure.

OTTENBERG: I don’t know, but she’s really exciting. We’re following each other on Instagram now. I feel like she could be in Interview Magazine.

RIBEIRO: She’s really good.

OTTENBERG: She’s seven-feet tall.

TAKESH: She’s like the new Amazon Ashley.

OTTENBERG: She told me that she and James met at a Lakers game. We should be interviewing her right now.

TAKESH: So she was invited through James?

OTTENBERG: Yes.

TAKESH: She wasn’t invited through Interview?

OTTENBERG: No. By the way, when I heard it was at Club James, I was like, “All right, I’m drinking Red Bulls at this dinner. I’m staying out late.”

TAKESH: Yeah, we’re staying out late.

OTTENBERG: “Julian has to come, because he has to go to Club James.”

TAKESH: Yes.

OTTENBERG: I really wanted us to break into the house to really get into some pieces.

TAKESH: We could get a private tour.

OTTENBERG: I feel like it’s going to happen.

TAKESH: Well, I think you should do a whole story on his closet. There needs to be a video element of his closet.

OTTENBERG: Well, first of all, there is a video in my phone of his closet in 2009. 

TAKESH: But a lot has happened since 2009.

OTTENBERG: But there are a few things that I want to say on the record. The first is, in the powder room, you press a beautiful chrome button that makes the ceiling convertible and the ceiling goes away. So if you take a shit, the ceiling can go away like a fucking convertible. 

RIBEIRO: Not them dropping the top on the bathroom.

OTTENBERG: They drop the top on the bathroom, and it really works.

TAKESH: Where we just took a piss?

OTTENBERG: No, not there. The powder room of the house, the Sheats-Goldstein house. That’s one thing that I love.

TAKESH: Also, there’s no 90-degree angles in this house.

OTTENBERG: Oh, wow, wow, wow.

TAKESH: Not a single one. That’s a big architectural detail.

OTTENBERG: Fabulous. Who are these girls? Everyone looks incredible.

TAKESH: It’s because we’re in L.A. 

OTTENBERG: They’re all so high, and they look great.

TAKESH: So gorgeous.

OTTENBERG: Like, her body is incredible. I was really talking about the girl in the sheer outfit. Do you see her? She’s gone.

TAKESH: I love these cups.

RIBEIRO: I love the cups too.

TAKESH: The bendy cups. 

OTTENBERG: I love them too.

TAKESH: Yeah. You’re like, “I could just throw this at somebody and it’ll break.”

OTTENBERG: Oh wait, look. That door’s just opened. Oh, it’s crazy back there. Hi.

SECURITY GUARD: Hey.

TAKESH: So sorry.

SECURITY GUARD: How are you?

TAKESH: We just were looking…

OTTENBERG: I’m obsessed. I’m literally obsessed.

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