It’s the last night of the annual Getty Family Reunion, located in a hotel in a secretive, remote area of the United States of America. The room is set up like a gorgeous gala, with twinkling lights, a DJ playing his set and the sprawling, global family it up like only Gettys can. Ivy Getty, the great-granddaughter of the oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, is wearing linen polka dot pants from Gimaguas, a polka dot vintage scarf and a black tube top.
Her Chanel wedge heels are stomping on the dancefloor to a catchy beat and a familiar voice: her own. Forget summer, social insiders are all about Ivy’s brand new, debut song – a floozy, breathy pop bop which tells the tale of an enigmatic It girl. Familiar? ‘I made this song because it makes me so happy,’ Ivy says now.
‘I wanted something I could dance to, and there's nobody else better to dance with than your friends and family.’ You can imagine those tight-knit, beautiful Gettys going wild for her that first time. But they are hardly alone.
Checking in from the white sands of , director Damian Hurley tells , ‘Everything Ivy touches turns to gold. I was lucky enough to hear an early version of the song before release and haven’t been able to get it out of my head since.’ He goes on: ‘People LOVE the song; it’s played at every single party I’ve been to in Ibiza this past week.
The world has an insatiable thirst for sexy, camp, unapologetic this summer; Ivy is, as usual, ahead of the curve. I’m campaigning fo.