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Warhol's World

Show Us Your Studio

Some say Warhol invented celebrity. The indisputable truth: Andy’s star-studded shots of hot nights at Steve Rubell and Ian Schraeger’s cool West Side hang Studio 54 make it feel like the party’s still going. In its heyday, when topless bartenders, disco, and not a little illicit accelerant pushed the party to an alpine high, Calvin […]

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Warhol's World

Carolina Herrera Traded This Accessory
for Her Warhol Portrait

One New York night in 1979, the then-budding fashion designer Carolina Herrera was making the scene at Studio 54 when her gold-mesh-and-diamond Van Cleef & Arpels minaudière (a bejeweled clutch) caught a certain artist’s eye. “Andy took it and played with it all night long,” she recalls. “When he returned it he said, ‘If you […]

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Warholian Questionnaire

THE WARHOLIAN QUESTIONNAIRE: Carolina Herrera

Fashion icon Carolina Herrera on her dream dinner party: Warhol, Catherine Guinness and Steve Rubell and more Warholian memories.

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Anthony Haden-Guest

‘All of us knew . . . that we weren’t at the opening of a discotheque but the opening of something historical.”

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Capote, in response

“Occasionally, they can’t see me. I’m too short.”

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol to writer Truman Capote, Interview Magazine, February 1979

“Did you have a hard time getting in, Truman?”

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Anthony Haden-Guest

“On a good night Studio 54 was the best party of your life. Everything was happening at the same moment: there was the woman’s movement, the gay movement, ethnic movements of all kinds. The whole place was combustible with energy.”

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol

“I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.”

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Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol

“The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.”

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Warholian Questionnaire

THE WARHOLIAN QUESTIONNAIRE: CAITLIN FREEMAN

With a new book out today, Caitlin Freeman moves from pop confectioner to best-selling author.

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