Rapping About Alexander Wang at A.W. Bulgari’s

Maybe they heard that the party was lit. Just over an hour into the A.W. Bulgari’s fete — celebrating Alexander Wang’s new collaboration with Bulgari — on Saturday night, the FDNY made their way through the second floor of the former Henri Bendel department store. The historic Fifth Avenue space had been transformed into a hazy neon-lit club, with the empty jewelry cases repurposed as bars. “This is actually the first location that I wanted and the first time we tried it wasn’t available,” said Wang from the roped-off VIP area. “And we ended up looking and looking, and we didn’t end up finding anything else. And I was like, you know what, try them again. I guess there is value in persistence.” The designer greeted a steady stream of guests including Dua Lipa, Hailey Bieber, Offset, Quavo, G-Eazy, Tiffany Haddish, Sydney Sweeney, Sadie Sink and Sofia Richie, who lingered next to Eighties-style mannequins looking like they’d been partying too hard for a few decades too long. “The whole inspiration behind this party was really this idea of the department store after dark. “Mannequin,” the movie from the Eighties, was a huge starting point,” Wang added. “I thought well, wouldn’t it be so fun

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