[All photos by JOE SCHILDHORN, DAVID X PRUTTING, and BILLY FARRELL for PMc]

Rather than suffer through a slow economy, retailer H&M seized the opportunity last night to go all out and throw a spectacle to honor the launch of the amazing Matthew Williamson-designed collection for them. After arriving and walking down a glittered carpet flanked with gorgeous models dressed as sailors saluting you, all were escorted aboard a luxury yacht docked at the South Street Seaport. The interior was decked out to a theme that can only be regarded as “a shimmering Copacabana on The Loveboat”, and that’s an understatement. Click below for more story, party photos, and celebrity arrivals…

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[Photos by JP PULLOS for PMc] Downtown Divas Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny have spent their New York City Sundays going loco alongside their partying followers for Vandam Sundays at Greenhouse and last Sunday marked a special occasion celebrating the launch of influential New York artist Kenny Scharf’s book, Kenny Scharf. The party brought tons of downtown boys, girls, and beauties in drag together under one very green roof for the outrageous Sunday celebration toasting the artist. More»

You know I heart both these bitches….which is why they are perfect for Today’s Fame Game Matchup! This matchup, between ex-club kids Richie Rich and Kenny Kenny was a tough one to monitor. I myself don’t know if I could ever pick a winner, (though Rich-dog DID just give me one of my most fabulous interviews ever)…then again, Kenny Kenny was the inspiration for my Halloween costume this year! It’s just too hard for me to choose. So, you can see what the minds of FameGame came up with instead!

[Interview With Richie Rich]
[Richie Rich Rocks Our World]
[Profile: Kenny Kenny]
[On Becoming Kenny Kenny For A Night]

[Kenny Kenny working the Patricia Field's Door, photo via Jezebel]

I missed Patricia Field’s party Wednesday night because I was over at Fingerpaint, and was a little bit bummed. After seeing this picture on Jezebel last night, I am even more upset. For some reason, which no one has yet been able to figure out (including myself), I have a strange fascination with the club kids…in particular, with Kenny Kenny. And girl was WORKING that door on Bowery last night! So, in fitting with Kenny Kenny making news this week, I will NOW (probably retardedly so), present you with my rendition of Kenny Kenny for Halloween this year:

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[Photo via Joonbug]
I have a secret, and I might as well share. First of all, anyone that knows me, knows of my obsession for all thing club kids…though most of them have no idea where this came from, me being basically the opposite of what you would conjure up in your head upon thinking of those crazy kooky bastards that roamed the city’s nights before Guiliani, before 9-11, before Wholefoods. They were simply crazy, and crazily simple in that regard. But this is not a post about the club kids, who are still around in various forms of Kenny Kenny, Richie Rich, Motherfucker, Heatherette, and young hipsters. This is about a man. A man that depending on the time, and the writer, could be called an award winning club designer, club kid wrangler, doorman, fashion designer (back in the 80s), and night life king…and now, we can add blogger to the list. Yet Steve doesn’t fit any of these…at least for me.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

[Fortunoff's Thanksgiving Turkey, 5th avenue store window]

This Thanksgiving, we here at gofg would like to take this time to go over some of the things we are most thankful for this year. So here goes:

Guest of a Guest’s Most Thankful List:

-Armin Amiri for “Just seeing Cuba” and likewise needing us to experience his vision, thus creating Socialista.

-”Cocaine Highs” at The Box, for giving us a reason to dance with midget whores.

-Guidos and Guidettes for the massive quantity of material they provide us with each week.

-Rob Rich and his team for the extensive amount of coverage they provided us with this summer out east.

-Izzy Gold, LOLA, Unruly Heir, Tibi, Heatherette, and Abigail Lorrick, for keeping us in style.

-Polo matches, horse races and crew regattas for hours of WASP-sightings.

-Olivia, Tinsley, and Lydia for continuing to teach us the ways of becoming a socialite.

-Urban Rebounding classes for giving us yuppie buns of steel.

-Kenny Kenny , Richie Rich and the Club Kids…do we really need a reason?

-Mark and Eugene, Richie and Scott, Jason and Noah, Amy, and Danny A for continuing to take care of our need to party, and Nikola for the detailed documentation.

-The Martignetti brothers for giving us a chance to wear our hampton gear well into the fall and winter, and for giving all of our tall, popped-collared prepster friends a place to mingle with thier blonde future wives.

-Nello and the Cipriani’s , for giving us tales from the “battle of the most retarded restauranters” file to blog about.

-Upstairs for providing a place where stars like Diddy and DiCaprio can act “Just like Us” in a secret setting, bar fights and all.

-Passerby, well at least for a couple more months.

-Marc Jacobs, for proving that even fabulous gay designers have midlife crises.

-Wass Stevens, for giving countless doormen around the world somthing to look up to.

-Gossip Girl, for providing us with the best network TV in decades and keeping us off the streets on Wednesday nights.

-And finally, for all our readers and faithful commenters, for our blog buddies and our email tippers, for our myspace and facebook friends…….Thank you and Happy Turkey Day!

…um tell us something we DIDN’T know! haha

Its always such a pleasure to find others out there who share our bizarre fascination/obsession/love of all things relating to Club Kids (a la Kenny Kenny, Richie Rich, James St. James). So when we saw NYMag’s Video Look Book of Theresa Dapra, spotted in Soho recently, we had to share.  Theresa is a young girl whose dress was inspired by Party Monster (The cult film that chronicles Club Kids).

We should point out though that our obsession doesn’t cover the likes of Michael Alig.  Although he was the ringleader and patron, the circumstances of his downfall leaves too much of a macabre taste in our mouths. He just wasn’t as fabulous as some of his followers.  This girl made our day.

UPDATE: Interview with Richie Rich

From Ice Princess, to Club Kid, to Fashion Mogul, Richie Rich has always been a superstar to us. Many of our friends find our mild obsession odd, but we don’t care. Last night, while Kate Hudson was hanging with Ron Burkle at Rose Bar, and Diddy was causing chaos at Goldbar, Richie Rich was giving us goosebumps at Bobo. When we were randomly seated across from the famous diva at dinner, we knew we were in for a treat, and it wasn’t going to be from any culinary cuisine. (Full review of the newly opened west village hot spot to follow).

For those of you who are unaware of who Richie Rich is (and it’s not the comic character), he’s a kid from California that, after training under Kristi Yamaguchi, joining the Ice Capades and touring the world, decided to move to New York and become one of the most fab of all the Club Kids, working at all of the city’s hottest clubs while simultaneously starting a career as a recording artist and unleashing various pop singles such as “Magic” and Collision.” Those theatrical talents came in hand when he started making his own clothing, which got picked up by Patricia Field. Thus, Heatherette was founded in 1994 (with Travis Rains) and the rest is history. He is still hanging out with the hottest Socialites and Hipsters, but now it’s because they all want to be part of his show (Tinsley Mortimer is a regular model for them).

[photo from Patrick McMullan]

But back then, Richie Rich was just a kid trying to find his place in life. The Clubkids were infamous for taking things to the EXTREME. The movie Party Monster is a good documentation of this. Based on the book by James St. James, the film showcases the wild life of the real life “party monsters”. The premeire party for the film was held at the infamous Plaid night club (pictured below) and included such guests as Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilmer Valderrama, Nicky Hilton, Kenny Kenny, and Chloe Sevigny (the old “It Girl” who has grown up a bit, staring on HBO’s Big Love and recently launching a fashion line of her own).

Here’s a video of the Clubkids that we dug up from the Jane Whitney show in the 90’s…(Richie Rich is in there).

Finally, we leave you with a little blurb of the interview that James St. James did for USAToday:

Question: What exactly were all of you trying to achieve in the heyday? Was the club kid phenomenon just a major bid for attention? And was there anything you WOULDN’T do?James St. James: Certainly there was this post-Warholian feel of celebrity for celebrity’s sake,a nd we deserved to be famous because we were fabulous. We did have an agenda, though. Drag was to be the norm. Drugs would be the utopian gateway. It all blew up in our faces, of course. But in the beginning we had an ideology.