Let’s face it: the coolest parties are still photographed by Patrick McMullan.
This all started back in the days of Andy Warhol, and it’s never changed.
Now McMullan — who started very young, by the way — has a show on Warren Street in Tribeca at the One Art Space Gallery. It’s eye popping because Patrick took intimate pictures of every famous person in New York when it still mattered. His library is a roll call of a vibrant world that actually existed in places like Studio 54 and so on.
On Thursday night, a group of notables got on their scooters and such and headed to Warren St. for an exclusive opening party.
Note to Andy Warhol: You’d be amazed that a lot of your people’s fame lasted decades, not just 15 minutes! A lot of that was thanks to Patrick McMullan!
Ann Dexter Jones was there — she’s been married to Mick Jones of Foreigner forever, is the mother to a lot of famous kids like Mark Ronson, and is a designer herself. She got a kick out of seeing herself in the bedazzled era.
So was Carmen D’Alessio, once a queen of Studio 54, a Warhol star. And Fern Mallis, queen of New York fashion, who started New York Fashion Week and knows where every body is buried.
Curated by MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, the Exhibition called “So Famous” captured on camera by Patrick included Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Madonna, Paris Hilton, Grace Jones, Jaqueline Kennedy Bouvier and other fashion, film and society greats.
Not even the pouring rain could keep New York’s art, fashion, and society crowd away from an old-school New York celebration, including notables: Candace Bushnell, Nicole Miller, Tommy Silverman, Michael Fredo, Anthony Hayd
en Guest, Dustin Pittman, Christophe von Hohenberg, Donna D’Cruz, Frederick Andersen, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin and Jean Shafiroff (New York’s most photographed philanthropist).
