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21  |  OutBoise Magazine  | NEWS Patrick Janelle Co-Founder of Spring Street Social Society & The Liquor Cabinet SSSSociety.com OutBoise.com | Issue 10.1 | August 2015 designer's pieces into my lifestyle over the series of two weeks after I was nominated. The nomination itself was a huge surprise, and I'm not actually sure how the CFDA found out about me – but I couldn't be happier! Tell me a bit about Spring Street Society... Spring Street Social Society started as a series of cabaret shows in my backyard at the time, which was on Spring Street in SoHo. It has since become a series of different types of events, including dinners and social salons in empty buildings around Manhattan. We've also grown a membership following, in which guests can apply to become members for exclusive access to some of our activities. The events are always different, but some things stay the same: the location is announced the morning of the event, performances are an integral part of each gathering, and no two events are ever the same. Oh, and there are always cocktails. Which is a good segue to the next question: What's the Liquor Cabinet all about? Age: 33 IG Handle: @AGuyNamedPatrick # of Followers: 382K You were recently awarded the first Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Instagrammer of the Year Award. To what do you owe that honor? I won the award for the In