"There’s a party feeling that outshines them all. If you’re here, you’ve earned it. Can’t you hear that call? Everybody is a star. Everybody is one. You are a star, and you only happen once.” –Sylvester, "Stars"

It should come as no great surprise to anyone reading this that I am enamored of the Disco Era – the clothes, the people, the energy, and most of all, the music (at least the glamorized, Vaseline-over-the-lens, version we remember today – not the poly-blends and leisure suits). And I’m here to tell y’all – Disco’s back, and in a big way.

Earlier this year, Amy Sacco began her ‘Dirty Discotheque’ party, Tuesday nights at No. 8 (not coincidentally, the site of my 40th Birthday party). Now, on the left coast, my favorite Hollywood heart-throb, Bryan Rabin (the '90s king of the LA rock-club scene, who evolved into one of the city's go-to event designers, producing memorable affairs for Madonna, Paul Smith, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Vogue and Vanity Fair) and Adam XII (POTUS' deejay of choice) have teamed-up with Andre Balazs’ nightlife team (overseen in LA, by Darryl Gibson) to present Giorgio’s: A Modern Discotheque, Saturday nights at mmhmmm at The Standard Hollywood.

I just knew – based on the brilliant-for-their-simplicity promotional flyers – before ever stepping foot in the venue, that I was gonna love it. Sho’ nuff – within 30 seconds of passing muster at the door, and being shown in to the back of mmhmmm (through the kitchen), I was in heaven. I’d opted to wear a V-neck black kaftan that opened to reveal a black t-shirt with Debbie Harry’s visage in gold foil, black jeans, and Gucci platform motorcycle boots (not to mention quite a bit of gold and diamond jewelry) – and I was delighted that people were coming up to me, all night, to say how fierce the look was.

But what I was taken with, even more than by how well I was going over with the local cognoscenti (of which I must’ve run into at least 30 friends and acquaintances from previous incarnations of my life) was the atmosphere in the joint. First of all, there are few genres of music that bring people together more than does disco. It’s just an unassailable fact. Add to that that Adam’s playlist was flaw-less (even by this old queen’s exacting standards). Hits by Diana Ross, Chic, Blondie, Chaka Khan, Cher, Alicia Bridges, Sister Sledge, Anita Ward, and the fabulous Sylvester kept the guests smiling and spinning for hours.

And what guests! It wasn’t until my eyes had adjusted that I realized that the platinum-tressed C3-PO with the accent, with whom I was bumping and grinding was actually International Best-Dressed List Hall of Famer, Daphne Guinness. Innovative designer Michael Schmidt (creator of the world’s first fully-articulated 3D-printed gown) was catching-up with David LaChapelle, in a cordoned-off area, adjacent to the dance floor. My darling Amy Sacco arrived with Brit filmmaker Baillie Walsh, fresh from the screening of his rockumentary, Springsteen & I. And on the stage, next to the DJ booth, as fashion curator Rose Apodaca looked on, I found myself dancing to my jam, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” by Sylvester, with my long-lost pal, the gorgeous make-up artiste Kathy Jeung, and the one and only Jody Watley – and trust, it was (as Watley sang on the first track on Shalamar’s 1982 hit album, Friends) “A Night to Remember”.

But it wasn’t just the celebrities who make the night so magical; but rather the fact that (as Sylvester sang 30 years ago, in his 11 minute paean to the disco era, “Stars”) “Everybody is a star.”

So, if you like the nightlife and love to boogie, then get yourself over to Giorgio’s: A Modern Discotheque, Saturday nights at the brilliantly-named mmhmmm, at The Standard Hollywood. You can thank me, later.

Bryan Rabin and Adam XII present Giorgio’s: A Modern Discotheque
Saturday nights
mmhmmm at The Standard, Hollywood
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