Parisa Parnian

The classic salons of French intelligentsia of the 17th and 18th centuries are getting a 21st century makeover thanks to Parisa Parnian. In 2017, the L.A based artist and designer launched Savage Taste Persian Suppers + Salon, pop-up dinners that Parnian hosts in her Silver Lake home with food she prepares herself inspired by her Iranian ancestry. Fully inclusive affairs, these dinners have become popular gathering places for L.A-based LGBTQs and people of color, providing a safe community for them to meet and share ideas with like-minded individuals. Savage Taste is part of Parnian’s label, Savage Muse, which also serves as a design studio and lifestyle brand for intersectional markets. No stranger to queer fashion, Parnian became known to the community with Rigged Out/Fitters, one of the first queer fashion labels in Brooklyn in the 2000s. It was even featured on “The L Word.” The world of Savage Muse is one into which Parnian seems to have been born. “Whether I am illustrating/designing something for a client or hosting a group of people at my dinner parties,” she says, “I get to work and be around exactly the kind of people I want to surround myself with: beautiful, intersectional, diverse, kind humans who want to celebrate inclusivity with me in style.” —RK