New York Club Kids

Met Gala 2023 afterparty Billie Eilish by Andrew Tess

Polaroid pictures of Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish & more at the Met Gala afters

Dazed’s party photographer-at-large Andrew Tess made a beeline for the Boom Boom Room post-Met, capturing Olivia Rodrigo, Jenna Ortega, and original NY club kid Amanda Lepore on cam

Fashion

May 03, 2023

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Fashion

Legendary NY club kid James St James has a juicy new podcast

The Disco Bloodbath author serves up queer history, wild fashions, and a whole host of club kid titbits with a little help from his friends on the scene

Fashion

Aug 05, 2022

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Life & Culture

Michael Alig, former New York club kid, has died aged 54

The prominent party promoter, who spent 17 years in prison for manslaughter, died of a suspected heroin overdose

Life & Culture

Dec 29, 2020

Thom Waite

Art & Photography

Walt Cassidy’s New York Club Kids by Waltpaper_1

Club kid Walt Cassidy on his epic visual love letter to 90s NYC nightlife

The artist and writer fills the gaps of the neverending nights of New York City’s legendary club kids

Art & Photography

Sep 13, 2019

Sabrina Cooper

Fashion

We don’t do, we just are: the IG chronicling the era of the club kid

From notorious outlaw parties to fabulously outrageous club kid style

Fashion

Sep 17, 2018

Brooke McCord

Art & Photography

Energetic photos capture the absolute sexual liberation of 1970s New York

Allan Tannenbaum captured the most hedonistic period in New York’s history in glorious black and white photographs

Art & Photography

Jan 11, 2018

Miss Rosen

Art & Photography

That time Leigh Bowery & Amanda Lepore met Joan Rivers

The Club Kids took over a 1993 episode of the Joan Rivers Show in spectacular fashion

Art & Photography

Dec 01, 2017

Ashleigh Kane

Life & Culture

People are protesting an LA club’s booking of Michael Alig

The New York club kid spent 17 years in prison for the murder of Angel Melendez

Life & Culture

Oct 28, 2017

Anna Cafolla

Music

Marilyn Manson: all-American nightmare

‘I have an incinerator in my back yard’ – the misfit among misfits talks New York club kids, first dates and why he can’t help getting a bloodlust

Music

Sep 26, 2016

Natasha Stagg

Music

Your guide to disco – where nightlife truly began

A blow-by-blow of everything you need to know about disco, from sexual politics on the dancefloor to New York City nightlife

Music

Sep 22, 2016

Stevie Mackenzie-Smith

Arts+Culture

The secret history of The Last Days of Disco

Young, overeducated, and living for the weekend? Whit Stillman’s ode to NY disco is for you – he talks Chloë, club culture and why nothing good happens after 1am

Arts+Culture

Feb 25, 2016

Claire Marie Healy

Music

Shayne Oliver + Arca: feeling themselves

‘This is sensuality that is hypercharged, it’s amplified and erratic’ – the genre-twisting artist and Hood by Air designer on reaching collaborative catharsis with new music project Wench

Music

Feb 11, 2016

Alex Frank

Fashion

The 80s icon who united club kids and catwalk

Susanne Bartsch is the demi-monde dame who galvanized NY's fashion underground. She talks about her new book, discovering RuPaul and fighting AIDS with voguing

Fashion

Oct 05, 2015

Claire Marie Healy

Arts+Culture