This morning I could hardly pull myself out of bed as all night I was bombarded with Fabulous Flashbacks and Naughty Nightmares of the year 1990... This is what I remembered...
- Fear of the United States going into war (one year later we entered the Gulf War)
- Clubs: Sound Factory vs Tracks vs Tunnel
- Deciding if I should stick to wearing Jean Paul Gaultier or give into my secret obsession for the more conservative Yves Saint Laurent - Gaultier actually ruled the early 90's!
(Photo above of yours truly circa 1990-91 courtesy of Bill Cunningham)
- The House of Xtravaganza (I was known as Malcolm X) - the original house of Vogue
- Hubble Space Telescope being placed into Orbit (I never knew why this was such a big deal)
- An obsession with sushi which lead to some sort of weird mercury imbalance
- Deciding that maybe I should give up fashion and begin a more serious career (I worked for one year as an "actuary" for Lloyd's of London - the worse job ever)
- Madonna's The Blonde Ambition Tour
- My best friend Katsumi and I moving from a small downtown 2 bedroom apartment into a Penthouse at 83rd and 3rd Avenue (I felt like George Jefferson - "moving on up")
- The passing of my dear friend - artist Keith Haring
- We had just started hearing about this man from Arkansas that wanted to be President named Bill Clinton
- Formally meeting Madonna who couldn't stop talking about politics and sex (I remember initially not liking her because I thought she was too bossy and too short)
- Most of all what I remember from 1990 was a feeling of being young and invincible even though everyone around me in the fashion, entertainment and art worlds were dying from AIDS, but for some reason I knew that I would be spared to tell and share their stories.
- Madonna and my two best friends of 1990 Jose and Louis Xtravaganza - Rock the Vote
In all fairness, 1990 was truly all about Ms. Madonna - no matter how much we hate to admit it...
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