The guest list-wielding gatekeepers on the door were similarly unyielding. With a strictly enforced one-in-one-out policy, even upon the VIP guests, the line moved slower than a glacier and no amount of cajolery, flattery, intimidation, name-dropping, shade-throwing, foot-stomping (of which there was an alarming amount), menacing, or veiled threats of professional/personal/social destruction worked to advance admission.
Guests were drip-fed through the door and descended into further mayhem, albeit of a far more jovial nature. The party, in celebration of Agent Provocateur’s fall 2019 campaign, was co-hosted by Sink The Pink, an LGBTQ+ collective of artists, performers, set designers, costume makers and choreographers, which amounted to a high-glamour, high-camp event.
Towering queens in Agent Provocateur corsets, garter belts and hosiery presided over photo booths, while another — who accessorized his unmentionables with statement mutton-chop sideburns — marshaled courageous guests into live karaoke performances of “9 to 5” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”
Missé Bequiri was more magnanimous than the seething masses outside: “Come on! Who doesn’t want to party with Agent Provocateur?”
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