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People got aggravated about it because a lot of rich, powerful and famous people didn’t mean anything to us at Studio. But that doesn’t seem so politically correct in the public domain. You put somebody talkative next to somebody not so talkative.

It’s like the same kind of discretion you exercise when you do a private party over at your home. We wanted to make sure that women wouldn’t be bothered. We were just trying to put together a good party. We weren’t making any choices based upon race or creed or color or wealth. I.S.: We always thought that it wasn’t elitist. The idea of the freedom of going in there and being in a sanctuary in the middle of New York, in an unsafe area of the city, is just compelling to people. And I think things always have a tendency, the thoughts, become better and better and better. WWD: Do you feel like people are always pulling you back in when they reference their own Studio 54 experiences or they wished they had experienced it, when they meet you? In that Golden Age of fashion in New York, there were 10 or 15 designers that were setting the tone for the first time right up there with Milan and Paris. They were all bigger than life and they were setting the cultural tone then. When they went to a place, it was like getting the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

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Fashion designers were the movie stars of our time in New York. At that time, in New York in the Seventies, American fashion was just about to make its imprint. It moved through the people who led media. It’s funny - it’s gone through the gamut. I’ve lived through the era where the movies stars were king of the mountain. I.S.: I’ve lived through when the baseball players, fighters or athletes were the stars. We felt that kind of revelry could work with anybody. It should include more people than just gay people. That kind of energy that used to be in gay clubs downtown that was - we thought - a great place to party. You were there to meet somebody, talk to somebody and talk somebody up. I never felt comfortable in those places that were kind of fancy and were all straight people. It’s an expression of what you yourself would like to do and like to see. Low and behold there are other people who also like them. The fashion people you write about probably do the kind of clothes that they like to wear. Anytime you create something new or innovative, you just go about doing what you yourself like. WWD: How did you know what the ingredients were if it hadn’t been done before? In my life, I went to a couple of seminal events, like Woodstock, but none has had the influence that Studio had. So 40 years later, people are still curious about it. All those things went into making it special. What creates interest is when you are with people who are not like you.

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Putting in the room such diverse elements creates this combustible spark, this energy that you don’t get when you’re in a room full of rich white people, or any kind of uniformed people.

Old people and young people, straight people and gay people, black people and white people. It was rich people and not-so rich people. The third thing, which could have been the most important, was there was a complete diversity of crowd, which had never been done before. They felt that protection and it made it feel like a sanctuary. Everybody was there just to have a good time and to let it all hang out. If you were sitting next to someone very, very famous, nobody cared. Again, no one was going to gawk, stare, ask you for an autograph. Secondly, when you were lucky enough to get in, you felt absolutely protected. There aren’t many times in life that you feel that. No one is going to judge - an absolute freedom to be who you are and how you wanted to have fun and entertain yourself. Anything goes, nothing you do you can’t wake up the next morning and walk away from. There aren’t many places or times where you can experience that. Number one - everybody, when you were lucky enough to get in there, felt a feeling of absolute freedom. There were three things that Studio did that had never been done before. Ian Schrager: Everybody is an expert about this. WWD: Why does Studio 54 have such a lasting impact? 'Studio 54: Night Magic' to Spotlight Fashion, Celebrities, Designers and Creative Freedomĭrinking the Kool-Aid at Art Production Fundįashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert's Career Spotlighted in New Exhibition at the Museum at FIT