The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Take Valentino Beauty’s revival of Studio 54, opened in the famed club’s original space only for Wednesday night. Cigarettes? The 2025 iterations were made of candy (though that didn’t stop a few attendees from lighting up indoors later in the evening). White horse? Not this time. Frenzied crowd outside the door? In full force. Diana Ross and Donna Summer? Blaring. Cher? Absolutely.
By the time Cher came in — with her beau on her arm and full team in tow — the dancing and drinking were well underway. The one to start the action on the dance floor first was Colman Domingo, who also drew out a few fellow partygoers.
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Heavy on nostalgia, attendees reminisced on their own fantasies of the bygone club. “I think of Brooke Shields dancing, Balanchine, Michelle Phillips — that sort of thing,” said Jemima Kirk of the club. And a few more debaucherous elements as well. “If I really said what I think of, you wouldn’t be able to use it.”
“We walked through it. It’s incredible,” said Chris Briney of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” fame. When he thinks of Studio 54, “it feels untouchable and a little undefinable. But you think of the things you didn’t see, the stories that you hear but never saw or were never there for — long, late, wild nights.”
He has a few of those in store. “We’re doing Calvin Klein on Friday,” he said, looking ahead to fashion week. “I’m seeing what comes up, trying to enjoy it. Fashion week in any city is such a special time. It’s so busy, the traffic’s terrible and the events are great.”