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subscribe to style file blog via RSSSamantha Pleet On The Small Screen
June 23, 2009 10:04 am
The early-eighties public access series TV Party is pretty legendary, round these parts—Glenn O’Brien hosted the talk show, Chris Stein and Debbie Harry were regulars, Jean-Michel Basquiat would draw squiggles on the monitor from off-camera, and almost everyone who was anyone at Mudd Club made the scene. The whole thing was pretty nutty, and pretty genius. Now, TV Party is getting an outer-borough update, courtesy of Samantha Pleet. The Brooklyn-based designer has collaborated with the collective We Make It Good on Pleet TV, a six-minute film that will be screened for the first time tonight at Parlor Showroom in Soho. “It’s sort of like TV Party meets The Muppets,” explains Pleet. “I host it, and we had 20 people stop by over the course of 12 hours of filming. At one point, we all get up and dance.” Guests such as Heather D’Angelo of Au Revoir Simone, Peggy Wang of Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and artist Dan Estabrook came clad in looks from Pleet’s Holiday ‘09 collection. “It was a fun, different way of showing off the clothes,” says Pleet. “And since we cut the footage down to six minutes, we can probably extract a few more episodes.”
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