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SEQUIN SKIRTS are popping up on resort runways, pictured here in a look for Tory Burch

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Farley Chatto F/W 2016 Menswear Toronto Fashion Week

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Auguste Abeliunaite for Número Magazine December 2013-January 2014

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Aline Weber in “The Night Issue” by Miguel Reveriego for Antidote Magazine, Fall 2014/Winter 2015

See more from this set here.

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New York Dolls dressing room, 1972, by P Felix

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New York Dolls: Johnny Thunders & David Johansen in Hollywood, 1973, by Bob Gruen

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The New York Dolls at Mercer Arts Center, NYC, ca. 1972 in photos by Bob Gruen, Roni Hoffman & Marty Thau.

Well, I watched the premiere of HBO’s “Vinyl” last night (really wanted to love the show, btw, but got mixed emotions instead) and there was this culminating scene where the rock’n’roll energy of a Dolls’ gig causes the Mercer Arts Center to collapse (a coke-fueled metaphor for the end of an era and the birth of something completely new) that got me interested in the story behind it and, though it seemed like far-stretched fiction, this venue where the New York Dolls used to play as regulars, housed in an early 1870′s eight-story hotel, did actually come crashing down (here’s the story).

“…To help pay for the costs of the renovations and the theatrical productions, the Mercer opened its unused spaces to punk rock bands. The Center’s Blue Room theater became home to a rapidly growin fringe music scene, hosting the first concerts of bands like the New York Dolls, the Modern Lovers and Suicide—groups laying the foundation for early punk rock.

In 1972, Lou Reed had left the Velvet Underground, the Factory was fading, and punk needed a home. “CBGB was a Hells Angels hangout,” says Alan Vega of the electronic protopunk duo Suicide. “Max’s was closed.”

In the renovated theaters of Mercer Street, the punks came home to roost…”

narrative.ly

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Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda F/W 2015

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“The Miu Age”. Photographed by Ben Toms for Dazed & Confused August 2013 

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Grimes for Vogue Ukraine Third Aniverssary Issue, March 2016. Photographed by K.S

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Chanel Iman in “The Beautiful One” by Joshua Jordan for Harper’s Bazaar Serbia June 2016

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#Repost @julianaluna ・・・ #myhaircrush