CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/19/2016

The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989–1993. Photographs by Nick Waplington

The NYC club scene of the late-80s and early-90s was a world unto itself—before Giuliani decided to clean up the city, before the development boom, before the invasion of the new one percent. From 1989-1993, British photographer Nick Wapplington documented the clubs at night, following his day job taking pictures of fitting sessions at Isaac Mizrahi's downtown studio—before Mizrahi sold a share of his company to Chanel, before the documentary movie Unzipped. In his Foreword to The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures, published to accompany Mizrahi's current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Wapplington explains that he has "juxtaposed the two sets of images here to produce a work which describes the vibrancy of a vanished moment in New York's cultural history."