Mudd Club (1981) / Designered to Death

Original invitation, Mudd Club, New York, October 1981. Text in English, 4 pages. 21.5 x 17cm. Condition: good (trace of folding and creasing).

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Rare invitation for Halloween 1981 to the famous and trendy Mudd Club. The theme of the evening: designer to death… so fashion. “Come impersonating your favorite designer or model. It doesn’t matter who; Pierre, Oleg, Zandra, Vivian, Oscar, Diane, Egon, Claude, Coco, Ralph, Emilio, Gloria or Pauline. If your preference is to be a model , as Lauren, Cheryl, Brooke, Jerry et. al”…

 

The Mudd Club was a nightclub in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York. It was founded by Steve Mass, curator Diego Cortez and Anya Philips, a muse of the New York punk scene. Located at 77 White Street, it opened in October 1978 and closed in 1983. Artists like William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, David Bowie, Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, Richard Hell, Stiv Bators, The Cramps, John Lydon, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Jim Jarmusch, Cookie Mueller, Sonic Youth or even no wave and after-punk personalities frequented the place.