Lasting Fashions of the Party Scene Through the Ages
While flipping through the pages of New York Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Issue, I found myself inspired page after page by garments worn by musicians, stars, and artists in the party scene of New York from four decades ago. Matter of fact, I spotted a couple of pieces that are almost duplicates of pieces I own myself. It is true that fashion has projected itself forward through rethought-out designs and re conceptualization but some key pieces never seem to change. Have they been redesigned to come full circle, or have they been absent awaiting their triumphant return?
Cher and Bill Butler at a Casablanca Records party at Empire rink, 1979
American Apparel, 2008
Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley Jr., Liza Minnelli, and Michael Jackson at Studio 54, 1978
Grace Jones at a dinner party in her honor, 1986.
Janet Jackson in Dior’s metallic hooded dress by John Galliano, W magazine Oct 2006
Debbie Harry, 1981
Kate Moss, 2007
Marc Jacobs and Elizabeth Saltzman, disguised as Linda Evangelista, 1991.
American Apparel mesh top and shiny leggings, 2008
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