Colin Jost Had a 'Surreal' NYFW Night at the Tommy Hilfiger Show — on His Own Staten Island Ferry (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Colin Jost, Brooke Shields, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah at Tommy Hilfiger show during New York Fashion Week.Photo:Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty

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Tommy Hilfigeralways knows how to throw a party.

Who could forget whenSNLstars Davidson and Jost, 42, famouslypurchased the decommissioned ferry in 2022?

The boat was pulled into the South Street Seaport for the Sept. 8 show and Jost was on board for the night. He tells PEOPLE that it was “pretty weird” seeing his boat play the host for a fashion show because it looked nothing like what it usually does.

Tommy Hilfiger and Colin Jost.Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty

“I thought that Tommy and everyone who organized the event really did a great job,” Jost told PEOPLE while on the ferry. “I was saying while watching the show that it’s almost like [the ferry] was kind of built for something like this, the way the seating is laid out and seeing the people move around the deck. It’s very surreal.”

Jost also joked that he couldn’t believe this was the same boat he used to take to high school — and the same boat he sometimes would take home to Staten Island (where he’s from) at 3 a.m.

“It’s a different vibe,” he said.

Jost joked to PEOPLE that the hot dogs in particular looked much better than what used to be served on board the ferry.

Fortunately for Jost — who had just landed back in New York from visiting wifeScarlett Johanssonin London and said he hadn’t been in town since May — he didn’t have to do much of the prep to get the ferry ready for the show.

“[The team was] doing 24-hour shifts getting the show together, and they did a great job,” he said. “I landed into a whirlwind and I didn’t even know what to expect coming here, but I was very impressed!”

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Colin Jost.Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty

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The talk of the town, though, was Jost’s boat (which still very much looks like a Staten Island Ferry, if you were wondering). Thougharchitect Ron Castellano, one of Jost’s partners in renovating the ferry, toldCurbedin March that the team washeaded toward renovation on the ferry, the boat’s future is still a bit in flux, according to Jost.

“The boat hasn’t been up to anything in the last two years,” Jost joked to PEOPLE. “All of us have other jobs that have taken up a lot of this time that probably we should have been doing this, but there actually has been a lot of work being done even though it seems like it was just sitting around. Sitting around is better than drifting away.”

As Castellano explained to Curbed, the team is considering Miami as a destination for the ferry, and Jost told PEOPLE that could still be the case — but selfishly he wants the ferry to stay in New York.

“Being on the water in New York is very special,” he said. “I would love it to be here. I think it’s special if it stays in New York in some way and I think it will be re-imagined, but I think the spirit of it will be the same. Like you see tonight, it’s fun to have a party on a Staten Island Ferry, which you never get to do.”

source: people.com