Years for Fears
Allison Sarofim Does Halloween, Eighties-Style
For her annual Halloween bash, Allison Sarofim brought the eighties downtown scene into her West Village townhouse Friday, walling in her backyard patio with graffiti-scrawled plywood and pumping it full of New Wave dance tunes. There were squadrons of break-dancers, punked-out bartenders, and cigarette girls on hand; the hostess channeled a club-going character named Nefertiti Graffiti in a pharaonic hairpiece by stylist Ashley Javier; and, yes, that was an actual Basquiat on the living room mantelpiece.
The guests did the rest: Carlos Mota came as Leigh Bowery and Chris Benz as Adam Ant, sporting a pirate shirt and dangling extensions that, he predicted, "I'll be pulling out at the gym tomorrow." And was that really Fabiola Beracasa wearing enormous latex ears as Prince Charles? Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone went in drag, meanwhile, having pulled a pair of Stephen Sprouse bodysuits from their closet. "Not the wigs, though," Jacobs clarified. "We didn't have those in the closet."
