Bare Facts: W Hotel's Playboy Pajama Party

Blame it, if you will, on the Le Tournament Vert absinthe cocktails that starting pouring as soon as EyeSeeStyle arrived at Friday night's "Playboy Pajama Party" at the W Midtown Hotel, featuring a gracious personal appearance by 2009 Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist.
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As it turned out, Ida was as coy and accomodating as she'd sounded over the phone in an exclusive EyeSeeStyle interview.
She dutifully signed autographs and greeted the short number of gents granted VIP introductions to her with the ease and glee of someone picking through puppies at an animal shelter. More than anything, she bared her patience for panting admirers. And, in a stark departure from the "diva" attitude expected of someone of her stature (shorter, thicker and more approachable than she appears in pictorials), Ida asked for nothing more than frequent refills of ice water.

The presence of local playas like Collective Soul frontman Dean Roland, SneakSunday's CEO Paul Broft, FOX 5 reporter Justin Gray and an assortment of well-placed businessmen kept the affair from taking on a cheesy aura.
Fashion designer Mychael Knight, radio star Jenn Hobby, celebrity photographer Ben Rose, nightlife guru Pablo Henderson, boxer Preston Haliburton and Noble Investment's Steve Nichols were also spotted in the W's dimly lit Crystal Lounge.





Somehow, the Atlanta ladies who dared to show up at the W's Whiskey Park bar knowing that there'd be an assortment of Playboy Bunnies in attendance conspired to dress in near unanimity.Short, frilly, semi-sheer babydoll dresses carried the night, albeit with a few astonishingly skimpy exceptions.


Perhaps there's some reality TV show in Ida's future that might reveal a less flattering side. But at least during the W's Pajama Party she struck all the right poses.

Photos: The Midnight Socialite