Celebrities, industry tastemakers, models and music mavens hit up the official launch party for Hennessy Black last night (May 5) in New York City. New to the finer spirits market, Hennessy Black marks the cognac brand’s approach to doing liquor “differently.”

GIANT was on the scene and checked in with some of our favorites girls including Kim Kardashian and Ciara and saw a performance from Swizz Beatz and dance troupe The Jabbawockeez.  

Check out Swizz performing and Kim Kardashian showing off her nails below. 

Luxury lifestyle designer Jhung Yuro has created a one-of-a-kind pair of limited edition sneakers for luxury cognac brand Hennessy called The Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top.

The Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top is made from soft full grain leather with a cow suede tongue and vamp, napa pigskin interior and a lizard embossed overlay and strap. Color blocked with cognac brown and cream, The Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top has a non-marking rubber midsole, crepe rubber outsole with leather logo patch, deco stitch and will be packaged in an exotic skin embossed shoebox with a braided rope shoebox handle. The limited edition Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top (with only 500 pairs are available stateside) will retail for $300 and is available exclusively at www.jhungyuro.com.

Recognizing the potential in luxury co-branded sneakers, Hennessy was looking to continue building long-term connections with its customers. The goal was for the Hennessy Celebration Hi-Top to bring to life the premium uniqueness and power of the Hennessy brand and its global influence on the urban tastemaker. Unfortunately, they didn’t really succeed in capturing the essence of the classic spirit. While Yuro is obviously a noted designer in the field, the shoe just falls flat. What do you think?

So I’m guessing Fabolous went to a party sponsored by pink sparkling liqueur Nuvo and could feel his balls literally retracting into his body with every sip, so he went to the bartender and was like, “son, you gotta sneak a little Henny in this bitch,” and it actually tasted good, so he named it the Black Code and the world rejoiced.

Nuvo Sparking Liqueur’s “Black Code”:

Ice cold Nuvo sparking liqueur

Rocks glass (chilled)

Cognac

• Add Nuvo to chilled rocks glass
• Splash cognac on top
• Stroke chest hair a little
• Socialize

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.