The Fashion House
Mayor John Cooper says a stop-use order has been posted at The Fashion House after a massive party and potential super-spreader event at the East Nashville property over the weekend produced widely shared images of maskless attendees playing beer pong, smoking hookah and getting tattoos. One particularly viral video shows a man performing analingus — an act that has been explicitly discouraged by public health officials amid the pandemic — on a woman in front of a large window.
If all of that has you confused and horrified, congratulations on sheltering in place — and apparently avoiding the Nashville internet for the past 48 hours. Images and videos from the party started appearing online Saturday night and into Sunday morning. Many of the partygoers behind the posts have since made their accounts private or deleted their posts altogether, apparently surprised by the fact that everyone is mad at them. The Fashion House's Instagram page is now private. The resulting furor even prompted the makers of Pickers Vodka to release a statement clarifying that they were not officially involved with the party.
The party was no secret and had apparently been advertised for days. Metro Councilmember Sean Parker, whose district includes the now-infamous home, tweeted on Sunday that he had alerted the Metro Public Health Department and the Metro Nashville Police Department about the event 30 hours beforehand but got no response. The MNPD confirmed to The Tennessean that they did swing by the party but did not cite anyone for violating the city's mask mandate or ban on gatherings of more than 25 people. However, they did tow some vehicles that were parked illegally.
The party was thrown by a man named Shi Eubank, who is the singer for a band called Savage After Midnight. In a video posted on Sunday, a man who appears to be Eubank said he's "not gonna apologize for being legendary." Eubank's Instagram page is also private now.
As for the aforementioned Ass Man, he would appear to be some sort of jet-setting porn performer who posts online under the name Daddys Juiced. You'll not be shocked to learn that his social media profiles are NSFW. But we can tell you that this morning he posted a video from the Nashville airport, where he was apparently preparing to board a plane for Boston. We can only hope he wasn't bringing any microscopic carry-ons with him. If you read this, Daddys Juiced, please get tested and quarantine. (He is probably not going to do this.)
The party at The Fashion House is deeply mockable and, at the same time, quite possibly the first part of a lethal chain of events. As public health experts keep warning us, people can spread the coronavirus before they experience any symptoms. Moreover, at a party like the one held at The Fashion House, even just one infected person can pass the virus to scores of people all on their own. It might be easier to dismiss as an outlier if it didn't closely resemble the atmosphere on Lower Broadway, where throngs of people have continued to gather, crowding into honky-tonks, often without masks.
The party goes on as Nashville students prepare to start school virtually, their parents try to keep them on track academically, workers struggle with underemployment (if they have any employment at all) and many business owners watch another month go by with their doors still closed. The death toll in the city is nearing 200 people.
Nashvillian Cortnye Stone put it best in a tweet over the weekend: "We fed the Nashville tourism beast for so long, and now the beast is eating us."
