Proving the distance between west 14th Street and T Magazine is just a well earned reputation..............
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If anyone understands the allure of these garments — and their, if you will pardon the expression, historical underpinnings — it is Chi Chi Valenti, who was running around town in her underwear years before Courtney Love showed up on Oscar night in a vintage white satin slip and a tiara.
Valenti was the proprietor of the nightclub Jackie 60 on West 14th Street, back in the day when the meatpacking district trafficked in meat, not Margielas and Manolos, and, as she tells it, “So many afternoons, popping home from the Mudd Club or Berlin in a bias-cut satin nightgown and five-inch Charles Jourdans, I felt just like the protagonist in the Busby Berkeley sequence ‘Lullaby of Broadway’ — you know, the one who bumps into the milkman doing his rounds just as she’s coming home from her night of being ‘a daffodil who entertains, at Angelo’s and Maxie’s.’ ”